Speaker 1: The idea of a simple life often sounds strange to
Speaker 1: many people, especially to those who've spent their entire lives
Speaker 1: dealing with scarcity. When someone who's already had access to
Speaker 1: comfort says that less is more, it can seem naive
Speaker 1: or even dishonest. In many cases, simplicity only starts being
Speaker 1: valued after the person has already had money, choices, and possibilities,
Speaker 1: lived through excess, and realized that it didn't fulfill as promised.
Speaker 1: For those who've always lived with little, this talk can
Speaker 1: sound like privilege, as if the simple life were just
Speaker 1: an elegant version of lack. But there's an important difference
Speaker 1: that's almost never discussed. There are those who arrive at
Speaker 1: simplicity only through exhaustion, and there are those who arrive
Speaker 1: through understanding, the understanding that the emptiness they feel isn't
Speaker 1: born from a lack of things, but from the expectation
Speaker 1: that having more would solve something that's internal. This emptiness
Speaker 1: remains even when goals are achieved, when desires are satisfied,
Speaker 1: when what seemed essential finally arrives. It's at this point
Speaker 1: that Epicurus's philosophy becomes relevant. He advocated for a life
Speaker 1: where desires are understood, not automatically obeyed. This video is
Speaker 1: an invitation to clarity understanding why attachment can become the
Speaker 1: greatest wealth someone can have, and why a simple life
Speaker 1: is born from consciousness, never from scarcity. Epicurus was born
Speaker 1: over two thousand years ago, but became known for an
Speaker 1: idea that still misunderstood today. He advocated for pleasure, but
Speaker 1: not the kind most people imagine. For him, living well
Speaker 1: meant eliminating what disturbs the mind, and most of what
Speaker 1: disturbs comes from within, from fear, from desire that never ends,
Speaker 1: from the constant feeling that something's missing. Many people live
Speaker 1: chasing a pleasure that, when achieved, quickly dissolves, giving way
Speaker 1: to a new desire and then another, without pause or closure.
Speaker 1: Epicurus called these empty desires those that promised to fulfill
Speaker 1: but only increase restlessness. True pleasure for him was the
Speaker 1: absence of pain and disturbance, the capacity to feel peace.
Speaker 1: This type of pleasure doesn't require great achievements, external approval
Speaker 1: or constant accumulation. Living well is living with tranquility, and
Speaker 1: tranquility is born when you stop being dominated by what
Speaker 1: you desire, when your real needs are met, and you
Speaker 1: realize you don't need more than you have to be well.
Speaker 1: Epicurus lived very simply. He ate bread, water, and sometimes
Speaker 1: a bit of cheese, because he realized that was enough.
Speaker 1: Any small addition became intense. Celebrated his life was freedom.
Speaker 1: Freedom from not depending on things outside his control, from
Speaker 1: not living in fear of losing what he had, from
Speaker 1: not needing to chase endlessly. The foundation of Epicurean philosophy
Speaker 1: lies in this understanding. Needing less isn't an obligation, it's clarity.
Speaker 1: There's a pretty common illusion that the more you have,
Speaker 1: the better you live, that happiness grows along with your
Speaker 1: bank account, that security and freedom come from accumulation. But
Speaker 1: reality is different. Having more often means worrying more, managing
Speaker 1: more things, making more choices, protecting more possessions. The more
Speaker 1: you own, the more you start to fear loss, and
Speaker 1: the fear of losing can be even more disturbing than
Speaker 1: the loss itself, because fear is constant while loss is momentary.
Speaker 1: Many people who accumulate material goods discover this too late.
Speaker 1: They buy the bigger house, the better car, the more
Speaker 1: expensive clothes, and realize that the feeling of security didn't
Speaker 1: come with it. On the contrary, more anxiety came, more bills,
Speaker 1: more responsibilities, more comparison with those who have even more.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed how those who have more always seem
Speaker 1: to be checking alarm insurance investments. The problem lies in
Speaker 1: the belief that these things will bring calm, in the
Speaker 1: expectation that the next object or achievement will finally fill
Speaker 1: the void, but it never fills it. The void is
Speaker 1: existential lack of meaning, lack of clarity, lack of purpose,
Speaker 1: and that's resolved with understanding, never with acquisition. Those who
Speaker 1: lived in pursuit of wealth, power, recognition remained restless even
Speaker 1: when they achieved everything, because life became fuller, more complicated, heavier.
Speaker 1: Living well is about reducing weight, dependence and worry, finding
Speaker 1: stability in something that can't be taken from you, and
Speaker 1: that's in your way of seeing life, never in things.
Speaker 1: There's a confusion that needs to be cleared up. Simplicity
Speaker 1: isn't the same as scarcity. Scarcity is lack impose limitation.
Speaker 1: It's when you'd like to have more but can't, When
Speaker 1: you're base sick, needs aren't met, and you live with
Speaker 1: less than you need to be secure. Simplicity is conscious choice.
Speaker 1: It's when you could have more but realize you don't
Speaker 1: need it, when your needs are met and you feel
Speaker 1: that nothing essential is missing. This difference is fundamental because
Speaker 1: many people judge the simple life as romanticizing poverty, as
Speaker 1: if it were easy to defend simplicity when you've never
Speaker 1: experienced need. This criticism makes sense in many cases, but
Speaker 1: the central question is on another layer, freeing yourself from
Speaker 1: the illusion that you need a lot to live well,
Speaker 1: understanding real needs, and stopping chasing desires that never end.
Speaker 1: Those who live in scarcity didn't choose to live with
Speaker 1: little life imposed that those who live in simplicity chose
Speaker 1: to reduce the weight, focus on the essential, and not
Speaker 1: let desire command their decisions. This doesn't invalidate the suffering
Speaker 1: of those struggling to have the basics, but it shows
Speaker 1: that having more than the basics doesn't guarantee peace, satisfaction,
Speaker 1: or happiness. Many people who have everything still feel something's missing,
Speaker 1: and that something is internal, the capacity to be at
Speaker 1: peace with what they already have, to not need external validation,
Speaker 1: to not live chasing the next achievement. Simplicity in this
Speaker 1: sense is freedom, freedom from not depending on things that
Speaker 1: can be taken, from not living in fear of losing,
Speaker 1: from not needing more to be well. This freedom is
Speaker 1: available to those who understand their desires, separate the essential
Speaker 1: from the superfluous, and realize that living well is about
Speaker 1: needing little, never about having everything. Not every desire comes
Speaker 1: from you. Many are learned, created, implanted by messages you
Speaker 1: receive from early on, through advertising, through social comparison, through
Speaker 1: the pressure to appear successful. There's a clear distinction between
Speaker 1: natural desires and empty desires. Natural desires are born from
Speaker 1: your own need, hunger, thirst, shelter, security, companionship. When satisfied,
Speaker 1: they bring relief, calm, and don't ask for more. Empty
Speaker 1: desires never end. You can satisfy them once, but soon
Speaker 1: they return, amplified, more demanding, more urgent. Their desires borne
Speaker 1: from comparison, from created dissatisfaction from external promises that you'll
Speaker 1: be happy if you have that. Think about the last
Speaker 1: phone you bought. In the first week it seemed perfect.
Speaker 1: After a month you were already looking at the newer model.
Speaker 1: How long did the satisfaction last? When you have it,
Speaker 1: Happiness doesn't come just a new desire comes, and the
Speaker 1: cycle continues. This is the mechanism that keeps many people trapped,
Speaker 1: working NonStop, accumulating, NonStop, spending, NonStop, always searching for something
Speaker 1: that doesn't satisfy because it wasn't a real need, just
Speaker 1: an invented necessity. Society functions based on this, on constant
Speaker 1: stimulation of desire, on the creation of new needs, on
Speaker 1: the message that you're never enough, that your life is
Speaker 1: never enough, that you always need more clothes, more technology,
Speaker 1: more experiences, more status, And every time you satisfy one
Speaker 1: of these desires, another emerges. This race has no end,
Speaker 1: there's no victory in it, only exhaustion. The proposal was different.
Speaker 1: Understand your desires, recognize which are real and which are
Speaker 1: just noise. When you separate one from the other, life
Speaker 1: becomes simpler. You stop chasing things that don't matter, stop
Speaker 1: spending energy on desires that will never satisfy you, and
Speaker 1: start focusing on what really brings inner stability. Wanting with
Speaker 1: consciousness means choosing your desires instead of being chosen by them.
Speaker 1: There's a moment many people go through. It's when you
Speaker 1: finally achieve what you've wanted for so long, the dream job,
Speaker 1: the ideal relationship, your own house, recognition, and soon after
Speaker 1: comes a strange feeling, an emptiness. A silent question was
Speaker 1: that it You expected that achievement to change everything, to
Speaker 1: bring lasting happiness, to fill the emptiness you felt, but
Speaker 1: it only brought temporary relief, and soon the emptiness returned.
Speaker 1: Modern psychology has a name for this hidonic adaptation. It's
Speaker 1: the process by which the human brain quickly returns to
Speaker 1: its stable level of happiness after any positive or negative event.
Speaker 1: You achieve something, happiness rises, the brain adapts, happiness returns
Speaker 1: to the previous level, and a new desire emerges. Researchers
Speaker 1: like Brickman and Campbell, who studied lottery winners and people
Speaker 1: who achieved great material accomplishments, discovered that within a few months,
Speaker 1: these people returned to the same level of satisfaction they
Speaker 1: had before. The achievement didn't fail. The expectation was what
Speaker 1: was wrong. Epicurus perceived this over two thousand years ago,
Speaker 1: without laboratories or scientific studies. He called it unstable pleasure,
Speaker 1: a pleasure that depends on external factors, that arises when
Speaker 1: you achieve something and disappears soon after, leaving you again
Speaker 1: in search of the next thing. Modern science confirmed what
Speaker 1: he already observed. This type of pleasure never completely satisfies
Speaker 1: because it doesn't resolve the central question. The question isn't
Speaker 1: what you have, but what you expect that to do
Speaker 1: for you. Many people expect external achievements to solve internal issues,
Speaker 1: that success will cure insecurity, that money will cure fear,
Speaker 1: that recognition will cure the feeling of not being enough.
Speaker 1: But none of this cures. It just disguises for a while.
Speaker 1: Researchers like Sonya Leaobomirsky showed that external changes have temporary impact,
Speaker 1: while what sustains well being is mental state never acquisition ed.
Speaker 1: Dina demonstrated that income and consumption have limited impact after
Speaker 1: a certain point. More money doesn't generate more continuous happiness.
Speaker 1: The emptiness you feel doesn't come from lack of achievements,
Speaker 1: but from lack of clarity purpose, inner peace, and that's
Speaker 1: resolved by understanding that you're already enough, that your life
Speaker 1: already has value, that you don't need to prove anything.
Speaker 1: Stable pleasure is that which doesn't depend on achievements, which
Speaker 1: remains when circumstances change, which is based on inner tranquility.
Speaker 1: It comes from living without fear, from not depending on
Speaker 1: external validation, from being at peace with who you are,
Speaker 1: from having your basic needs met without needing more. When
Speaker 1: you live like this, external achievements can still happen, but
Speaker 1: they don't define you, don't determine your peace, don't fill
Speaker 1: a void that never truly existed. You realize the void
Speaker 1: was just the belief that you needed more, and when
Speaker 1: that belief disappears, the void disappears with it. If you're
Speaker 1: afraid of losing something, it's because you're attached, and attachment
Speaker 1: brings in security, anxiety, and suffering. Because everything you're attached
Speaker 1: to can be taken. While you have it, you live
Speaker 1: in fear of losing it. Attachment is a form of
Speaker 1: prison that limits your freedom and keeps you hostage to
Speaker 1: things outside your control. When you're attached, you don't live fully.
Speaker 1: You live in fear that the situation will change, that
Speaker 1: the person will leave, that the money will run out,
Speaker 1: that recognition will disappear. This fear occupies mental space, emotional energy, life.
Speaker 1: Many people live clinging to things that can be lost,
Speaker 1: and the fear of losing is so intense it steals
Speaker 1: the pleasure of having you have, But don't enjoy because
Speaker 1: you're busy protecting, securing, worrying. That's not life, its constant tension.
Speaker 1: The proposal was radical for its time and continues to
Speaker 1: be today. Live in a way that you're not afraid
Speaker 1: to lose. This means not depending emotionally on anything, not
Speaker 1: making your possessions the source of your peace. Your relationship's
Speaker 1: the source of your identity, your achievements the source of
Speaker 1: your value. Attachment makes you believe you need that to
Speaker 1: be well, that without it you're not complete, But that's illusion.
Speaker 1: You're already complete, You always were. What you have or
Speaker 1: don't have doesn't change that. When you live like this,
Speaker 1: you're free to enjoy what you have while you have it,
Speaker 1: to let go when necessary, to not live in fear.
Speaker 1: If the person stays, great, if they leave, you remain well.
Speaker 1: If money comes, great, If it doesn't come, you know
Speaker 1: how to live with less. If recognition arrives, great, if
Speaker 1: it doesn't arrive, your peace doesn't depend on it. Tranquility
Speaker 1: is a state where you're not disturbed, not shaken, not
Speaker 1: dominated by fear. Because you don't depend on anything external
Speaker 1: to be well, your needs are met, your mind is calm,
Speaker 1: and you know that even if everything changes, you'll still
Speaker 1: be well because you learn to live with little, and
Speaker 1: those who live with little fear live with much peace.
Speaker 1: Not all pleasure is equal. Some calm, others agitate, Some
Speaker 1: bring peace, others charge a price. Immediate pleasure isn't always
Speaker 1: the best pleasure. Often it comes accompanied by consequences you
Speaker 1: only notice later. Eating too much brings immediate pleasure, but
Speaker 1: then comes discomfort. Spending beyond what you have brings immediate pleasure,
Speaker 1: but then comes anxiety. Seeking external validation brings immediate pleasure,
Speaker 1: but then comes dependence. These pleasures are bad when they
Speaker 1: ignore what comes after. When you choose without considering the cost,
Speaker 1: the logic is simple. What makes you feel good now
Speaker 1: can make you feel worse later, and if the final
Speaker 1: balance is negative, it's not worth it. Think about it.
Speaker 1: That impulse to buy something you don't need. At the moment,
Speaker 1: it seems essential, you feel relief, satisfaction, but two days later,
Speaker 1: when the bill arrives, satisfaction turns to regret the pleasure
Speaker 1: cost more than it was worth. Or that argument where
Speaker 1: you let out everything you're feeling without filter. In the moment,
Speaker 1: it seems liberating, but later when the relationship is shaken.
Speaker 1: You realize the outburst cost you peace. The wisest pleasure
Speaker 1: is that which doesn't bring pain afterward, which doesn't generate regret,
Speaker 1: which doesn't charge anything in return. This requires discernment, thinking
Speaker 1: beyond impulse, evaluating what that pleasure will bring long term.
Speaker 1: Many people live on autopilot, seek immediate pleasure without thinking
Speaker 1: of consequences, and then suffer with the result, feel trapped
Speaker 1: out of control, hostage to their own impulses. The proposal
Speaker 1: was conscious control, deliberate choice, pleasure that doesn't charge. This
Speaker 1: means living intelligently, knowing when to say yes and when
Speaker 1: to say no, knowing what's really worth it and what
Speaker 1: only seems worth it. When you do this, your life stabilizes.
Speaker 1: You stop being dominated by your desires and start understanding them.
Speaker 1: Choosing consciously and choosing consciously is real power. It's knowing
Speaker 1: you control your impulses, not the other way around. The
Speaker 1: less you need, the freer you are. This truth comes
Speaker 1: from a simple understanding. Each need is a dependency, and
Speaker 1: each thing you need is something that can control you.
Speaker 1: If you need a lot of money to live, you
Speaker 1: depend on a lot of money, and that limits your choices,
Speaker 1: your freedom, your peace. If you need constant approval, you
Speaker 1: depend on others opinions, and that controls you, makes you
Speaker 1: live based on what others think. If you need luxury
Speaker 1: to feel good, you depend and on luxury, and that
Speaker 1: ties you to a life that demands more and more.
Speaker 1: Living with very little was purposeful, a search for freedom.
Speaker 1: Freedom to live without fear, to make choices without being
Speaker 1: dominated by created needs, to not depend on anything that
Speaker 1: could be taken. Real freedom isn't in having money to
Speaker 1: buy what you want, but in not needing almost anything
Speaker 1: to be well. When you reduce your needs, you increase
Speaker 1: your autonomy. You stop depending on a job you hate,
Speaker 1: on a relationship that wears you down, on validation that
Speaker 1: never comes, and start depending only on the essential simple food,
Speaker 1: basic shelter, health, true companionship, things you can maintain with
Speaker 1: little effort, without constant sacrifice. That's wisdom. It's the understanding
Speaker 1: that less dependence means more peace, that the lighter you live,
Speaker 1: the easier it is to move, change, be well. Many
Speaker 1: people fear this freedom because they were taught to believe
Speaker 1: that needing little is failure, that living with simplicity is
Speaker 1: giving up. But it's choosing consciously deciding that peace is
Speaker 1: worth more than impression, that tranquility is worth more than status,
Speaker 1: that freedom is worth more than accumulation. And when you
Speaker 1: make this choice, everything changes. You stop being trapped, chasing,
Speaker 1: being afraid. You're free and the freedom of needing little
Speaker 1: is the greatest wealth someone can have. Have you noticed
Speaker 1: how modern life is full of noise, excess, information, choices, stimuli, possessions.
Speaker 1: All of this generates a type of fatigue that isn't physical.
Speaker 1: It's mental, the feeling that your mind never rests, that
Speaker 1: you're always processing, deciding, filtering. Excess brings confusion, never wealth.
Speaker 1: The more you have, the more you need to manage,
Speaker 1: the more decisions you need to make, the more attention
Speaker 1: you need to give, and this occupies mental space, energy, life.
Speaker 1: Many people accumulate without noticing the weight of this. They
Speaker 1: accumulate clothes, objects, commitments, superficial relationships. Everything demands attention, requires maintenance,
Speaker 1: generates noise, and amid this noise, it's hard to hear
Speaker 1: what matters, know what you really want, have clarity. A
Speaker 1: simple life reduces noise, eliminates what's not essential, and creates
Speaker 1: mental space. When you reduce what you own, you reduce
Speaker 1: what you need to care for. When you reduce your commitments,
Speaker 1: you reduce your overload. When you reduce your choices, you
Speaker 1: reduce your indecision. And in this space that's created, something
Speaker 1: valuable emerges. Clarity balance, the possibility of thinking without rush,
Speaker 1: of feeling without overload, of living without constant noise, Living
Speaker 1: only with what really matters means having less but having better,
Speaker 1: choosing quality instead of quantity. Many people discover this late,
Speaker 1: after years accumulating, after years overloading themselves, and when they
Speaker 1: finally reduce, they feel relief, feel they can breathe, feel
Speaker 1: they have space to live. Excess is weight. Simplicity is lightness,
Speaker 1: and lightness is what allows you to live fully without noise,
Speaker 1: without overload, without confusion, only with the essential, and the
Speaker 1: essential is always less than you imagine. There's a silent race.
Speaker 1: Many people are participating in a race for status, for recognition,
Speaker 1: for appearing successful. And in this race, inner piece is
Speaker 1: left aside. Because status requires sacrifice, It requires you to
Speaker 1: work beyond necessary, to spend beyond what you have to
Speaker 1: live according to external expectations. This race leads nowhere. Status
Speaker 1: is unstable. Recognition is fleeting, prestige depends on the opinion
Speaker 1: people you don't even know, and all of this can
Speaker 1: disappear at any moment. The proposal was different. Something that
Speaker 1: can't be taken tranquility in a calm, emotional stability. This
Speaker 1: depends only on you on your way of living, thinking, choosing.
Speaker 1: When you seek tranquility instead of status, your priorities change.
Speaker 1: You stop caring so much about what others think, stop
Speaker 1: needing to prove something, stop living for appearance, and start
Speaker 1: living for yourself, for what really makes you well, for
Speaker 1: what really matters. Success stops being the goal. The goal
Speaker 1: becomes living well, and living well is living in peace.
Speaker 1: Many people who have status live in fear of losing position,
Speaker 1: of being forgotten, of no longer being relevant, and this
Speaker 1: fear steals tranquility, pleasure life. Status and tranquility rarely go
Speaker 1: together because status requires exposure, comparison, constant approval, and all
Speaker 1: of this disturbs takes away peace. Those who choose the
Speaker 1: opposite path, living simply without seeking recognition, without seeking prestige,
Speaker 1: find something many people never find. Peace, stability, freedom, that's
Speaker 1: real wealth, needing little, being at peace, living well. Everything
Speaker 1: else is noise. The way you relate to people says
Speaker 1: a lot about how you relate to yourself. Many people
Speaker 1: seek in others what they don't find in themselves, validation, completeness, security,
Speaker 1: and this creates heavy relationships based on neediness, on necessity,
Speaker 1: on emotional dependence. True friendship was essential for a good life,
Speaker 1: but not any type of friendship, friendship based on presence,
Speaker 1: on genuine exchange, on companionship without demand. True friendship is
Speaker 1: born from autonomy, never from dependence. You can only truly
Speaker 1: be present when you don't need the other person to
Speaker 1: feel whole, when you're not seeking in them something you
Speaker 1: should find in yourself when you're well alone, and choose
Speaker 1: to be together because it adds, never because it fills.
Speaker 1: Relationships based on neediness are unstable, demanding, exhausting because no
Speaker 1: one can fill another person's void. No one can be
Speaker 1: responsible for someone's happiness, and when you expect that, the
Speaker 1: relationship crumbles. You know this. It's that relationship where you
Speaker 1: feel incomplete when the person isn't around. It's that friendship
Speaker 1: where you need constant approval. It's that family where you
Speaker 1: feel you're never enough. All of this is born from
Speaker 1: the same root you're seeking outside what you should cultivate inside,
Speaker 1: and while you seek your hostage hostage to other's moods,
Speaker 1: hostage to attention that may or may not come, hostage
Speaker 1: to approval. That's always conditional, Like relationships are those where
Speaker 1: people meet for pleasure, where each is already well and
Speaker 1: the other's company makes life even better. That's maturity, the
Speaker 1: understanding that your peace can't be in another person's hands,
Speaker 1: that your happiness is your responsibility. When you understand this,
Speaker 1: your relationships improve. You stop demanding, charging, expecting the other
Speaker 1: to solve what only you can solve, and you start
Speaker 1: enjoying companionship without pressure, without expectation, without dependence. The person
Speaker 1: can be present or not and you remain well, can
Speaker 1: agree or disagree and you remain whole. Can leave and
Speaker 1: you don't crumble because your emotional structure doesn't depend on them.
Speaker 1: This is rare, but it's liberating, both for you and
Speaker 1: for those with you. Those who live with someone emotionally
Speaker 1: autonomous feel the difference, feel they can be who they
Speaker 1: are without fear of disappointing. Feel the relationship exists by choice,
Speaker 1: never by necessity, living in community without depending emotionally on
Speaker 1: anyone being well, with yourself and therefore able to be
Speaker 1: well with others. Without weight, without drama, without neediness, just presence,
Speaker 1: and presence is all the true relationship needs. Modern society
Speaker 1: functions based on a simple principle, making you feel dissatisfied,
Speaker 1: making you believe you need more, that your life isn't enough,
Speaker 1: that you're not enough, and that the solution is to consume,
Speaker 1: buy more, have more, be more. Many desires are born
Speaker 1: from external messages, from comparison, from manipulation. Advertising exists to
Speaker 1: create desire, to make you feel the lack of something
Speaker 1: you didn't even know existed, and when you buy, the
Speaker 1: feeling of satisfaction is short lived. Soon a new product emerges,
Speaker 1: a new version, a new need, and the cycle starts again.
Speaker 1: You're never satisfied because dissatisfaction is the end of consumption.
Speaker 1: If you were content with what you have, you'd stop buying,
Speaker 1: and the modern economy can't allow that, so it creates
Speaker 1: constant dissatisfaction. Shows you what others have, makes you feel
Speaker 1: your falling behind, convinces you that you need that to
Speaker 1: be happy, but you buy and are left only with
Speaker 1: more things, maintaining the same feeling of emptiness. This emptiness
Speaker 1: is resolved with understanding, with the perception that you already
Speaker 1: have enough, that your real needs are already met, that
Speaker 1: what you're seeking isn't in any store, it's in your
Speaker 1: way of seeing life. When you understand this, consumption loses
Speaker 1: its force. You stop feeling the lack of things you
Speaker 1: don't need, stop chasing novelties that don't add, stop believing
Speaker 1: the next purchase will complete you, and this frees you
Speaker 1: from anxiety, from comparison, from the endless race. You realize
Speaker 1: you can live well with less, that you don't need
Speaker 1: everything they offer you, that your life is already rich,
Speaker 1: living without being controlled by created desire, without being manipulated
Speaker 1: by external promises, only meeting real needs, and living in peace,
Speaker 1: choosing what to have instead of being chosen by what
Speaker 1: they sell you. There's a simple question, what do you
Speaker 1: really need to live well? And the answer is equally simple.
Speaker 1: Very little basic food, water, shelter, security, companionship, health. Everything
Speaker 1: else is extra can add, can bring comfort, but isn't necessary.
Speaker 1: Confusing what's necessary with what's desirable is a mistake most
Speaker 1: people make. You need a roof, not a huge house.
Speaker 1: Need clothing not brand name clothes, need food, not sophisticated food.
Speaker 1: The problem is society taught you to believe the minimum
Speaker 1: isn't enough, that you need more to be happy, that
Speaker 1: living with the basics is failure, But it's freedom, the
Speaker 1: understanding that you can live well without depending on much.
Speaker 1: Living with the basics doesn't generate fear, anxiety, or pressure
Speaker 1: to maintain a standard. Even if everything changed, you'd still
Speaker 1: be well because your real needs are simple and can
Speaker 1: be met with little effort. That's autonomy, stability, peace. When
Speaker 1: you realize you need little, you stop living in fear,
Speaker 1: stop worrying so much, stop working beyond necessary, and start
Speaker 1: living with more lightness, more time, more freedom. Many people
Speaker 1: discover this late, after years accumulating, after years striving to
Speaker 1: have more, and when they finally reduce, they feel relief,
Speaker 1: feel life became simpler, lighter, clearer. Well Being doesn't require excess.
Speaker 1: Happiness doesn't depend on luxury. Peace comes from simplicity, from
Speaker 1: understanding you already have enough, and enough is much more
Speaker 1: than you imagine. The more you desire, the more unstable
Speaker 1: you become. Movement search restlessness and restlessness is the opposite
Speaker 1: of serenity. Many people live in constant internal agitation, always
Speaker 1: wanting more, always dissatisfied, always searching for the next thing.
Speaker 1: This agitation reflects in emotions anxiety, frustration, disappointment. Desires never
Speaker 1: stop and are rarely completely satisfied. Even when you get
Speaker 1: what you wanted, satisfaction is short lived, and soon a
Speaker 1: new desire emerges. You return to the state of lack,
Speaker 1: to the state of search, to the state of dissatisfaction.
Speaker 1: This generates emotional instability. Can you remember the last time
Speaker 1: you were genuinely satisfied for more than a week. There's
Speaker 1: always something missing, always something to achieve, always something that
Speaker 1: seems essential. The proposal was to reduce desires, focus only
Speaker 1: on what's really necessary, and let the rest go. When
Speaker 1: you do this, your emotions stabilize. You stop chasing, stop
Speaker 1: being dissatisfied, Stop expecting the next achievement to complete you.
Speaker 1: You're already complete, Your needs are met, and you don't
Speaker 1: need more. This brings balance, stability. In a calm, you
Speaker 1: stop being shaken by every desire that arises, stop being
Speaker 1: dominated by unrealistic expectations, stop being hostage to constant dissatisfaction.
Speaker 1: You're well where you are with what you have, and
Speaker 1: that's liberating. Many people fear reducing their desires because they
Speaker 1: think it means giving up or conformity. But it's wisdom,
Speaker 1: the understanding that less desire means more emotional lightness, that
Speaker 1: less search means more presence, that less dissatisfaction means more balance.
Speaker 1: Living with few desires, with few expectations, and with much
Speaker 1: emotional stability, serenity is stable. Desire is unstable, and when
Speaker 1: you choose serenity, you choose a life that depends only
Speaker 1: on your inner clarity, never on external circumstances. In the end,
Speaker 1: it all comes down to a choice. You can live chasing,
Speaker 1: accumulating desiring endlessly, or you can live with serenity, simplicity,
Speaker 1: and consciousness. Detachment is the greatest wealth because depending on
Speaker 1: less makes you free. When you're not attached to anything,
Speaker 1: nothing controls you. You live without fear of losing, without
Speaker 1: constant anxiety, without being at the mercy of external circumstances.
Speaker 1: You're well regardless of what happens. That's real power, the
Speaker 1: power of not needing anything, the power of being an
Speaker 1: inner calm, the power of living without fear. Many people
Speaker 1: seek material wealth, accumulate goods, achievements, and status but still
Speaker 1: don't feel rich. The wealth they seek is in the
Speaker 1: wrong place. It's in things, and things can be lost.
Speaker 1: True wealth is in detachment, in the capacity to live
Speaker 1: well with little, in the freedom of not depending on
Speaker 1: anything that can be taken. Living with almost nothing made
Speaker 1: someone rich in tranquility, rich in freedom, rich in serenity.
Speaker 1: And this couldn't be taken because it didn't depend on
Speaker 1: external factors, only on the way of living, on understanding
Speaker 1: what really matters. Think of someone who can lose their
Speaker 1: job and remain well, who can end a relationship and
Speaker 1: remain whole, who can see everything change without panicking. That
Speaker 1: person is free. When you live like this, you realize
Speaker 1: you don't need much, that your real needs are simple,
Speaker 1: that happiness is in needing less and never in having more.
Speaker 1: Detachment isn't loss, its gain gain of freedom, peace, clarity.
Speaker 1: Many people never reach this understanding. They live their entire
Speaker 1: lives accumulating, afraid, dissatisfied, because they never understood that real
Speaker 1: wealth isn't in things, but in the capacity to live
Speaker 1: without them. The freedom of needing little is the greatest
Speaker 1: wealth someone can have, because when you have this freedom,
Speaker 1: you have everything, peace, stability, calm, and that's worth more
Speaker 1: than any achievement, any possession, any status, detachment is the
Speaker 1: final wealth, because it's the only one that can't be
Speaker 1: taken from you. The simple life is born from consciousness,
Speaker 1: never from romanticizing poverty or the privilege of those who
Speaker 1: already have everything. It's the understanding that inner emptiness isn't
Speaker 1: filled with accumulation, that happiness doesn't depend on external achievements,
Speaker 1: that peace comes from needing less. This ancient wisdom remains
Speaker 1: relevant because human nature hasn't changed. Desire is still there,
Speaker 1: dissatisfaction is still there, fear is still there, and the
Speaker 1: solution also remains the same clarity consciousness. If you want
Speaker 1: to live well, understand your desires, separate the essential from
Speaker 1: the superfluous, reduce what disturbs, and live with tranquility. That's
Speaker 1: real wealth.