5C's - Monks And Ministers Got Them All!

Sunday Times [link] wrote: "Monk with the 5Cs - Cash, credit card, car, country club membership and condo - the self-confessed 'modern-day' monk has got them all"

Aren't monks and ministers (especially the political kind) and other 'do-gooders' suppose to do good? To serve the people, to serve their believers, to serve the nation?

In so doing, are they entitled to the 5C's - the supposedly "good things in life'? Is that a 'given' or are they expected to ”experience the richness of life without the riches of life. You can experience abundant life without the abundance of life. You can experience health and well being without wealth.”

The quotation above is from Mr Anthony Yeo (God bless his soul) [Link] who's gone (fedtothefish) too soon.

The msm has the resources and the power to target anyone in a bad light, good light or whatever light msm chooses. Whatever one makes of the Sunday Time's article on Ming Yi, I can't help thinking of the core values of those in power. The values of those who has the religious power to suck money out of ordinary people through tithes. Characters of those who run charities that sucks people through donations and Nobility of political authorities who sucks citizens through taxes and duties (not forgetting CPF and HDB mortgages).

So are the do-gooders really good?

Or are the ordinary people being cajoled and conned off their hard earned money to satisfy the greed and deceptive delight of such powerful so-called do-gooders?

I don't know.

All I know is I can choose not to donate but I cannot choose not to pay Singapore taxes or CPF as I'll be penalised by law.

Powerful hypocrites can make life a bitch but I can choose to be better by following the hard-to-live-by advice of Mr Anthony Yeo - ”You can experience the richness of life without the riches of life. You can experience abundant life without the abundance of life. You can experience health and well being without wealth.”

We live, we learn. I thank Mr Yeo Toon Joo for writing and Mr Anthony Yeo for teaching me some, reminding me that until I'm fed to the fish, “with open hands, knowing that I am not grabbing on to anything”, I can have a life as good if not better than some money-grabbing, power-crazed elites!

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