Lust is usually associated with excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. However it could also be associated with any excessive addiction; whether for money or materialistic comfort.
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master”
Kahlil Gibran
Lust clouds reasoning, forcing a person to behave in a manner very different from its actual nature.
The current situation in the auto industry can be equated with the lust for short term profits alone clouding all reasoning for long term progress. The big 3 in the car industry focused exclusively on SUV’s and the Light truck market giving virtually complete market share in the car segment.
Here is an Aesop fable on the dangers of lust.
The Lion in Love
A lion once fell in love with a beautiful girl and proposed marriage to her parents. The parents did not want this to happen but were afraid of the consequence of refusal. In an effort to dissuade the Lion, the parents said “We would be honored, but feared that the Lions claws and teeth would hurt our daughter”. So blinded was the lion by his love, that he agreed and came back the next day after removing his teeth and claws.
At this site the parents turned him away from as they longer feared the Lion and refused the marriage proposal.
In Greek mythology we have heard of the fall and destruction of Troy, because of the abduction Helen by Paris.
William Shakespeare’s Play “Macbeth” is also a play of Macbeth’s lust for power, which blinds him in his burning ambition to become King. In the process he betrays his friends and all the values he earlier held dear.
“Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.”
Gautam Buddha
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master”
Kahlil Gibran
Lust clouds reasoning, forcing a person to behave in a manner very different from its actual nature.
The current situation in the auto industry can be equated with the lust for short term profits alone clouding all reasoning for long term progress. The big 3 in the car industry focused exclusively on SUV’s and the Light truck market giving virtually complete market share in the car segment.
Here is an Aesop fable on the dangers of lust.
The Lion in Love
A lion once fell in love with a beautiful girl and proposed marriage to her parents. The parents did not want this to happen but were afraid of the consequence of refusal. In an effort to dissuade the Lion, the parents said “We would be honored, but feared that the Lions claws and teeth would hurt our daughter”. So blinded was the lion by his love, that he agreed and came back the next day after removing his teeth and claws.
At this site the parents turned him away from as they longer feared the Lion and refused the marriage proposal.
In Greek mythology we have heard of the fall and destruction of Troy, because of the abduction Helen by Paris.
William Shakespeare’s Play “Macbeth” is also a play of Macbeth’s lust for power, which blinds him in his burning ambition to become King. In the process he betrays his friends and all the values he earlier held dear.
“Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.”
Gautam Buddha
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