•1 I think I am better for having better food, but such thinking makes me worse.
•2 Yes, it is fine to enjoy better food, but do so without attaching to it, making it about you, or personalizing it.
•3 I think I am better for having a better bank account, car, education, experience, family, friend, history, house, job, neighborhood, retirement plan, or spouse, but such thinking shows I am lower than those who are not so ego-centered.
•4 Trying to be better than others makes you worse than others because you deny the equality of human beings, and that is the cause of all social problems.
•5 Trying to be better than others makes you worse than others because you deny the equality of human beings, and that is one of the main causes of all spiritual problems.