Re: What if I don't want your gold or silver?

It seems to me that the coinage of money has made it easier for many to become overly obsessive with accumulating it... obsessive with the accumulation of material objects and property and other forms of material wealth.

And it seems to me that we are will be soon entering a time when money may just become obsolete. There will be no money. In fact having money in the form of gold or silver may become quite illegal.
And then, there may be a good side to this when this day does come...

"Why is money so important? It is your protection against love, against life, against death, against God.
Money is symbolic of a dead man, money is the love of a dead man.
Then a new life starts when you understand that money is neurosis. Security, the hankering after security and safety, shows that you are already dead, that life has left you. Continuous effort to be secure means you have not yet been able to love; otherwise, love is enough security, no other security is needed.

If you have known a single moment of love, for eternity and eternity you will be thankful and singing songs of gratitude to the divine. Then there is no death -- love knows no death, love knows only life. You know only death. Love... you have bypassed it, somehow you have not been through it; you have bypassed it, and now money has become significant. Money is symbolic of a dead man, money is the love of a dead man.

If you are on the path of money -- and almost everybody is, more or less -- then see the whole phenomenon of what is happening within you; you are killing yourself. And life cannot be prevented from moving, life will reach up to death. You cannot withhold it, it is not in your control. It has to go -- as it has come, it has to go. Before it leaves you, you can only create anxiety, that is all.

The society can live without money; for thousands of years society lived without money. And sooner or later a day will come when society will again live without money, because living through money is so burdensome and so useless and so unnecessary. But because the world was poor up to now, that's why money has had to be used; but the more affluence grows....
America will be the first to drop money. When there is enough money, there is no need to carry it -- why carry it? Then it is foolish, then it is burdensome. Soon the earth will not need money.

Then, the whole maya, illusion, disappears. No water, no moon. Then you can look at the sky, at the real moon. It is always there, but you are caught in the reflection.
Love is the real moon; money is the reflection."
Osho: No Water, No Moon. (Excerpts from Discourse #8)