Today I met up with a wealthy merchant named Kamaswami in order to discuss whether I was fit to work with him. I was able to impress him with my ability to read and write and he accepted me.
I now lived in his house and was pampered well. Everyday he showed me goods and warehouses and accounts and he and I discussed the practices of business...well he did most of the talking while I listened. I learned a lot and Kamaswami really seemed to have a great passion for business. To me, however, it's all trivial. It all seemed like a game; all the money and needs and goods, all so superficial.
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Life with Kamala however, is a totally different story. Everyday she gives me a new teaching of passion, love, sex, admiration, and pleasure. I believe I'm learning a lot more from her compared to anyone else I have encountered. Through her lessons, I have learned to completely surrender Self but while keeping my true goal still in mind, one of the traits in the Eightfold Path.
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To say I learned nothing from Kamaswami wouldn't be correct. Through observing him and his business practices and his views on wealth and material, I learned that all this immediate gain doesn't substitute true spiritual profit whatsoever.
I believe that he is growing annoyed with me for taking the practice of commerce and business so lightly.
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