When we come to this world, suffers or enjoys the rank and wealth are,essentially, the same thing. Pain or pleasure,failure or success doesn't make a difference to this world, it is just a different measurement for the personal sense of being satisfied or not. The ones who suffer or enjoy the glory are all humans. There is no a qualitative difference to God or the universe..
Society always judges a person's value by his properties, reputations and power, and this judge only makes sense to those who worship money and power, , it is not the measurement of God and the universe.
In 1970s, the rise of the poverty thoughts was a nostalgic remembering, to the tranquil and ascetic lifestyle of scholars during the medieval period while an objective thinking was emerged in opposition to the worship of money and the widespread desire for material welfare in society of that period of time.
Regardless of the success that modern society has reached in organizing human production, if all the scholars, writers, professors in society have lost their independent thoughts and have been involved in the waves of competing for power or money worship, then this society will not only lose its weight but will also become a bitter disappointment.
A successful person, the joys that he can obtain directly from his wealth and power is far beneath envy and respect he has received from others. If the latter is not existing, then accumulating wealth which he can never use up doesn't mean much at all.
An unsuccessful person, if he doesn't envy of other and distress himself but always be satisfied with what he has, then he is not different from those who are being successful.
While a successful person who can see his success, fame and wealth as nothing, then he will be able to live a worry-free life as the one who is not successful.
The winners' most wonderful time usually is the time when they are faced with adversity, the experience of finding the way out through struggle and failure. As the matter of fact, the unsuccessful ones who keep striving through the never ending failures are the same as the those who are successful, that they have already obtained the most beautiful thing.
If we could release from these distresses, emotions and desires, then we walk close to Buddha's boundary, which emphasis to live in a world without passion and desire.
The low state of Buddhism, as if a miserly landlord who lives frugally, does good deeds and receives credits, in order to prepare an good credit, and the reward of next life. The superior state of Buddhism can be understood as fighting against the Creator, that if not knowing why I live then I would rather not live.
