More vs Enough: The
Abundance Distinction
"Who is rich, he
who is satisfied with his lot" also translated as "Who is rich?
The one who is appreciates what he has…"
(Talmud—Avot
4:1)
Daat
– in Kabbalah meaning ‘connection’
also ‘knowledge’ which exchanges between
creation and development (in the former) or attaches between wisdom and
understanding in the latter
Tzavta
– connection. Tzavta
is the Aramaic origin of 'mitzvah' (which did not mean 'good deed'). Mitzvah is
a changing from the origin Tzavta to mean 'commandment' as in Bar Mitzvah - son
of the commandment.
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Let
us not confuse 'abundance' (in the biblical sense) with more. More rarely
if at all relieves anxiety - there is always another risk to invent or elevate
- to rationalize the need for More. More itself habituates and
ironically with its free floating never ending only momentarily tamped down
anxiety actually comforts (with familiar habituation) as an altered state not
having to deal with 'why I am" - one is meant to be - meant to
do. And ironically, more better now has a way of becoming, in time, less
worse later' while the anxiety and habituation are the placeholders.
Also note more is reinforced by concept of 'haves and have nots' with the unstated underlying behavior of- have a little want some more (and not smores....).
More
goes to 'I did it. Mine. 'Ownership' whereas enough owns UP to
connecting (yes, Tzavta/daat?) maybe to 'what one is meant to be; meant
to do.'
That
doesn't mean enough solves (as Sowell said, 'there are no solutions only
tradeoffs') - if anything 'enough' confronts - the
question of meaning IN one's life (unless the individual circles back to
more - being a MOREon.)
However,
enough may give the opportunity as to 'enough to live for; enough to live
on' - developing one's chalek (one's portion – or as Rush Limbaugh would
state ‘one’s talents on loan from God’) - in continuing to complete one's
incompletions.
Abundance,
in contrast, goes to enough to being satisfied with one's lot,
developing one's chalek, wanting what one has --- abundance is enough - not
more.
Finally,
if you the reader will excuse my Judaic reference & orientation, it is no
coincidence - (God’s way of winking that there is no word for God connoting the
word more in Hebrew as in the 100 plus names and or references. However,
I believe the third name for God in Genesis if not mistaken is Shaddai -
containing the root word – dai – meaning enough. And ‘in the beginning’
after each of 5 of the seven days - the
reference at the end of each of those days was 'it was good' (as in it was
good enough'. I don't recall in nomenclature the translation the phrase 'it
was good more'.
One may take the connection (Tzavta) from enough
(especially functioning as daat as well connection, attach, exchange)
especially in development of character, chalek, and meaning IN one life -- abundance.
It is questionable that more facilitates connection/daat mode
other than plaques, and recognized in
the society columns for a contribution to CUPS (monuments, buildings) rather
than Coffee (the actual cause – direct dollars in).
And
so abundance as --More, better, now (more, for more's sake) has a
habit of becoming less, worse, later - AND that's the LESSon
increasing personal financial anxiety, as I see it.
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Finally,
the above said there is a question of distribution (being a distributor of the
community – a Judaic concept). Distribution is OWNing UP and is
extremely difficult given the preponderance of 'displacing bodily fluids down
one's leg' by so called self serving charitable institutions ‘dissipating
abundance.’ The self aggrandizing holier than thou charitable institution
bureaucrats masquerading as ‘do gooders’ do not understand nor wish to
understand social entrepreneurship, accountability, output - preferring its own
perks, salaries, perpetuation CUPS (buildings) giving good lunch and shiny plaques (sans
Prevacid and or beta blockers) rather than accomplishing its mission/THE COFFEE (which
would put the bureaucrats out of business). Thus March of Dimes is still taking
quarters (excuse me ‘reinventing itself.’)
