AVaM

Everyone wants to be rich.

There’s nothing they won’t do to earn money—effort upon effort, struggle upon struggle.

The result? Emptiness.

Unrewarded efforts, endless desires.

“Avam”: in the dictionary, it means the common people, the ordinary folk. Their characteristics: they think they know everything, but in truth, they know nothing. They only have opinions. They are the ignorant class—yet so arrogant that they are unaware of their ignorance. Traits include rudeness, impatience, babbling, constant complaining, and a kind of barbarism. They rarely use their fine minds; instead, they are driven by their limbic system. Their actions are not thought-out responses but memorized reactions.

They always envy wealth.

They work, they struggle, they pray, they make vows—but somehow, they never become rich.

Because they do not have the structural qualities that would allow wealth to come to them—or to stay, even if it did. At their core, they are opposed to “air” (freedom, openness), stubbornly resistant to change.

Wealth—whether abundant or not—represents the accumulation, income, and flow of resources. This resource is not just money. It also includes the mind, knowledge, morality, and virtue. Wealth, like poverty, like beauty, like television or a cell phone, is a concept with its own characteristics—a tool. Calmness, sound judgment, courtesy, freedom from impulsiveness, and the value placed on oneself and one’s work are its key features. And wealth comes to those who embody these qualities. In fact, nothing really “comes”—when a person becomes these qualities, wealth is simply the natural result.

Now, let us return to the Avam class:

• A mindless rush

• A breathless life

• Blind conditioning

• Resistance to observation and questioning

• Narrow thoughts and rigid beliefs

• Impatience, reactive behavior

• Arrogance

• Constantly blaming external conditions and other people—especially life itself

• Working endlessly without mind or love, memorized effort: “I work so hard, but there’s no money”

• Inability to think or act outside the norm

• Idle chatter, pointless thinking, listening, and acting, all far removed from real purpose

• All-day phone use, endless videos, a life without aim

• Noise, clamor, quarrels, fights

• Crowds and crudeness

I am not talking about not having money.

But tell me—have you ever seen a truly wealthy person living like this?

Cash is time; it is the unit of time.

Time is the mind.

And when the mind is free and serene, wealth follows.