The sacred and profane.

I think the sacred/profane dichotomy is an artificial create of a conditioned mind. In a perfect world, there is only the sacred.

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Thanks for this comment. I need to elaborate. "Pay for it" also has the meaning "suffer". Like, you'll pay for your follies. Therefore, if you want something you will have to suffer - nay, all wanting is suffering. Why do we want something (apart from the wants of pure physical subsistence)? Because we have a sense of lack. Why do we have a sense of lack? Because we have not discovered ourselves. When we do, all sense of lack disappears and we would be in a perfect world. There would then be no suffering on account of wants. I hope this clarifies my “proverb”.

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Yep. That's it!
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In our pristine state where we live by the light that comes from within, the mind would have no sense of lack. Then why would it want anything? It is only when we seek the external for our psychological sustenance that we would ever suffer from a sense of lack. However much we attach ourselves to anything external, the nature of the external being ephemeral, it would prove elusive and our sense of lack would continue.

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You mean wanting for the sake of others? Only a person who has no wants (psychological wants) would have that compassion that makes him ever ready to be a tool for the sake of others. Otherwise we would have people who claim to work for others but are actually fattening themselves - the politicians, to wit.

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I entirely agree with you.

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Here's another post I agree with in its entirety. Action is always with motive, though spontaneous action or rather response is of a different order. To spontaneously seek to help someone in distress is what we would do because our very nature preordains it. But when we become an artificial person because we are taught that we are essentially sinners, then our natural self is clouded and we would tend to help someone in distress while all the time calculating what our gain would be from the altruistic-seeming act. In short, our true nature is divine and we turn artificial if we imagine we are sinners.

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