a lot of people like to hate on him, for him bragging, becoming so successful, Beyoncé’s wife, and then having kids with her, and then cheating on her, kissing and making up, and then cheating on her again.
I think what people don’t understand is Jay Z is from the projects, the Marcy Brooklyn projects, it is not nice there.
what is also very interesting about Jay-Z, is that he is super wise. To me true wisdom is true insight and wisdom but applied to real reality.
For example, one can philosophies about money and economics, and being grateful and being like a monk all you want… But, how much of this is this is the sour grapes fallacy?
I hate you because you’re so tall and handsome and rich and successful and muscular, and your drive all these Lamborghinis, and have so much cash in the bank, and you have all these beautiful women… And also beautiful children.
What some people will do is they will never admit this, and instead, secretly wish that they had all these material successes in the real world, and then secretly hate in spite people who have it, and then tried to teach people the exact opposite, saying that it is virtuous to be poor, to live an aesthetic lifestyle etc.
However, once again… It is very difficult to gauge genuineness here.
Even my beloved Thich Nhat Hanh — One of the most accessible Buddhist Zen monk practitioners of all time, he was exiled from his own country, from Vietnam and the communist, and I’m sure he had a lot of pent-up and resentment and anger towards the communists etc. so my skepticism then becomes, how much of this monk life lifestyle you adopt, simply because you like the political or the military force or the physical power or the manpower or the fire power to fight back?