According to the theory of Yin and Yang, when you lost something you also gain something, when you gain something you lost something too.
Once upon a time, there was a rich guy who had a large business and a lot of property. He worried about if his accountant had made mistakes, so even though he was old, he still kept checking the accounts by himself every night. Right next to the wall of his house, there was a poor family. The poor couple worked from dawn to dusk for making tofu for a living. Although life seemed tough to them, the poor couple talked a lot, they made jokes, they laughed and sang every day. Every night, when the poor couple was happy to go to bed, next door the rich man was still diligent for checking his accounts, no matter how exhausted he was.
One night, the rich guy’s wife said: “We are always busy at night for counting money, that’s so boring. Look at the neighbor, their life is tough, but they seem much happier than us.”The rich guy said: “they will stop laughing and singing tomorrow.” then he grabbed a gold ingot and walked out, then threw it to the poor couple’s yard. The poor couple was joking and giggling inside, suddenly they heard “bang”, something almost hit their door. They took the lantern and went out to check.
Under the lantern, there was A gold ingot on the ground, they almost stopped breathing, they were so confused, so nervous, so surprised…They picked it up quietly and went inside. They thought it draped from the sky, it’s got to be a gift from God, they can’t let other people know about it, so they hid it under the pillow, but they thought it wasn’t secure, then they hid it in the rice tank, still thought it wasn’t secure. They spent all night thinking and try where to hide it better, but nowhere seemed safe enough, of course, they did not make any tofu that night.
The second day, they started discussing their new future, they wanted to stop making tofu, buy a bigger property, but they were also worried if people noticed that they got money so fast, people may think it was stolen. If nothing will be changed in their life, then what is the reason for “god” giving this gold ingot . . . they were thinking a lot, they got so confused, they stopped joking, laughing and singing, they kept thinking and thinking over and over again, but, they couldn’t find any perfect solutions with the gold ingot.
The third day, the rich guy said to the wife: “see? no singing no joking and no laughing from the neighbor, right?”
When we have less stuff, the things we only have will be treasured and valuable. When we have more stuff we never feel enough, then we get confused about what we truly need.