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Tao Stoic 83

"What is Money Master?"

"Money is a physical housing of a non-physical structure. It is therefore a physical representation of an idea."

"But my Mind cannot produce it, in spite of it being ONLY and all ideation."

"That is the part of 'Physical Housing'. Just as your Mind cannot but be housed in a body, the idea of value is housed in coins, banknotes, cheques, even plain numerals on a bankaccount. Can you make a wild horse submit to the plough, purely by ideas? You have to put your ideas at work in some physical control, so you catch and teach your control to the horse first. So it is with money. Your ideas would start controlling the physical Reality in such a way that people are induced to give you (their) money (barter, trade, begging), or you could swindle them out of it. You even can make your ideas to go and form physical discs so as to 'look' like the official money, as did Polycrates (Herodotus 3.57.), what we call counterfeiting. Be always on the watch out for, ... keeping physics and non-physics well distinguished. That is the Way."


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