“Currently featured in Toyo Keizai Online” Knowing sufficiency

Good morning, this is Matsushita.

Every Saturday is the column

the update day for Makoto Matsushita's Investment Inquiry.

Today's theme is,

“Knowing what is enough.”

This theme comes from an experience about ten years ago,

when I visited Eiheiji Temple in Fukui Prefecture,

and I wrote a column based on it.

If you are interested,

please read it.

【Column】Makoto Matsushita's Investment Inquiry

Episode 196: “Knowing what is enough”

When I visited Eiheiji Temple in Fukui Prefecture about ten years ago, I read a word said on the wall of the corridor: “Greed, when it arises, makes the beautiful heart disappear. The Buddhist mind is simply the mind that knows enough.” It was such a phrase.

Reading this, the awareness of “knowing what is enough” entered my mind.

People always have a mind of dissatisfaction or shortage. Something is lacking,

a mind that wants something. In fact, this mind never stops.

No matter how much one has obtained, if you do not know what is enough,

a person will not be fulfilled. The heart cannot be filled by things.

What would happen if you knew what is enough? “Enough” means there is no shortage or defect, and the heart becomes satisfied.

At this moment, a person feels full and content.

In investment, what does “knowing what is enough” mean?

If you keep saying that profits are never enough and that money is never enough,

greed will arise, and the heart of sufficiency will be forgotten.

In other words, you will never be able to feel truly fulfilled.

“Greed, when it arises, makes the beautiful heart disappear. The Buddhist mind is simply the mind that knows enough.”

Let this phrase sink into your investment practices, and into your life.

Before you know it, you will be freed from dissatisfaction and shortage in both investment and life

and feel a sense of contentment.