How do money and power test a person's character?

Look at how someone handles desire after gaining money or power. These bring a greater need for self-restraint. If people cooperate with anything you want and you stop examining whether your actions are right, it becomes easy to lose your way.

Many people see no need to change while everything goes smoothly. Only after hitting obstacles and being hurt do they ask what went wrong. Noticing our thinking regularly is better than waiting for a crisis to adjust. Wealth or status now does not mean everything may follow our wishes.

A fellow practitioner recounted a grandmother's story in the program. What began as a very simple worship site gradually became a small temple through an elderly person's daily collection of discarded bricks, tiles, gravel, and sand, despite having little money. Only after the temple developed and attracted worshippers did people compete to manage it or chair the committee. Are we willing to help before titles and benefits exist, or do we seek a share only once something succeeds? That was the reflection the story prompted.

We discussed similar situations in entertainment. With high status and everyone giving in, it becomes harder to stop and notice personal problems. The environment is indeed complicated and full of temptation, but self-restraint remains possible within it. Ultimately, we return to our choices. Fame and ability cannot justify indulging every desire.