Heaven on Earth: 5 Levels of Wealth (video)

MagnatesMedia, May 19, 2021; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Inside the Secret Lives of the Ultra-Rich

(MagnatesMedia) ⭐ If one earned $1 per second, to make 1 million dollars would take about 11 and a half days. But to make 1 billion dollars would take over 31 and a half years.

See, it’s easy to think of wealth in terms of "rich or poor," but broadly speaking, there are arguably Five Different Levels of Rich. At each level, things change very drastically.

The difference between what a millionaire can do and what a billionaire can do is simply staggering.

This video explores what life is like at each of these different wealth levels, delving into how the ultra-rich spend their money, including some of their most bizarre and extravagant purchases.

But as one watches, one realizes that one of the biggest changes that happens at each wealth level is perspective. This is because prices feel relative to how much one earns.

So if we compare someone whose earning $40,000 a year with someone earning 400 million a year, it’s 10,000 times more. This means a Lamborghini that costs $300,000 to them is the equivalent of spending $30. A $10 million piece of art? That feels like $1,000.

So while to us these purchases would feel major, to a billionaire it’s not even something they need to think about. And of course, when one is that wealthy, it’s not just items and experiences one can buy.

Let’s instead start off with the first level of rich: The Top 1%. Even though this phrase is synonymous with being extremely rich, if one's income is over $200,000 a year, one is technically part of the Top 1% of earners in the world. So being in the Top 1% may not make one feel quite as rich as one might think. 

This is why beyond this level, wealth starts being measured in net worth rather than income, as the more wealth one has the more assets one has, and one is probably not making one's money from a salary.

So the next level of rich is a net worth of $10 million-$30 million. This level of wealth...

This video looks at ALL the other levels of wealth, including the difference between millionaires and billionaires. What are some of the craziest things rich people buy? What are some of the most expensive items ever made and rarest purchases the ultra-rich make?

Let's visualize wealth in different ways, looking at wealth inequality, understanding how billionaires buy a lot more than just expensive items and special experiences.

This post was inspired by Reddit poster a1988eli (with added research and analysis) who had spent a lot of time with several ultra-rich people and therefore had great insights about the levels of wealth.

His original comment was on the reddit post "What do insanely wealthy people buy that ordinary people know nothing about?"

This levels of wealth video was produced within the parameters of the fair use doctrine. Please contact support@magnatesmedia.com with any questions about the contents of this video. Video created by: John Frazer and Hahoany Assad with inspiration and thanks to a1988eli.

Clip from James Jani's channel that visualizes wealth: The Untold Truth About Money: How to Build Wealth from Nothing

Enjoy this video looking inside the lives of the ultra-rich and what a billion dollars can buy.

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A-Fest: MindValley guru makes millions (VICE)

VICE, 11/27/22; Vishen MindValley Lakhiani; Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Inside the Wellness Festival for Millionaires | Fringes

(VICE) Fringes (Season 1, Episode 4). "A-Fest" is an annual super-elite, invite-only festival that promises to radically change an attendee's life.

Run by MindValley, this is distilled Silicon Valley alt-wellness marketed to millionaires, entrepreneurs, and aspirational millionaires across the planet. The man behind the whole business is Vishen Lakhiani.

He has progressed from selling meditation CDs online to owning a $40 million company with thousands of loyal followers around the world. Although normally over $3,000, VICE’s Sydney Lima has been gifted a golden ticket to the event to discover whether she can become less negative and pathetic, setting herself up for a future of spiritual and business success. [Spiritual consumerism, anyone?]

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Universal ATM: Abraham-Hicks manifest money

How to make money come even without a job: Abraham Hicks 2022

(Spirit of Abraham) Sept. 13, 2022. Is greed good? There was that movie on Wall Street with the Wolf. Abraham seems to say nothing tops desire, always firing rockets to get things, and wanting things endlessly is what it's all about? Just give my millions, Universe. I need it. I mean, I'm thankful that I got it already. Yeah. Manifest. It's as easy as using gravity, which isn't that easy but can hardly be avoided.

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Abraham Hicks 2022: The Best Thing is Coming

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Jackpot: How to win billion dollar lottery!

Ñanamoli Thera, Culakammavibhanga Sutra (MN 135) via Access to Insight; Associated Press (ap.org); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Crystal Q., CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What happens if you win Mega Millions' $900M jackpot?

Official website: megamillions.com

DES MOINES, Iowa - Despite the horrible odds — one in 302.5 million for those keeping score at home — someone (or group) will eventually match all six numbers and win the Mega Millions jackpot, now at $900 million. It could happen as soon as Friday night, when the next drawing is held, leaving most of us disappointed but some lucky winner beset by a host of questions. More

• READER MAIL: "Dear Wisdom Quarterly, even though that stuff happens to most winners, HOW do I win? Thanks!

How to win the lottery

We want: long life, health, beauty, power, riches [like massive lottery winnings], high birth, and intelligence, or some of these things? They do not appear by chance.

It is not "luck" that someone is healthy or a lack of luck that someone is stupid. It may not be clear to us now, but all such inequalities among beings come about due to the karma they have made, actions from the past ripening now.

Each person reaps one's own fruits. So if we are touched by short life, illness, ugliness, insignificance, poverty, lowly birth, or stupidity and one does not like these things, there is no need to accept that that is the way it is. Something can be done; "action" (karma) can be taken.

Gambling leads to loss; merit leads to winning

It is also the mark of one who -- having heard the Dharma that leads to enlightenment and liberation from all suffering -- is no longer drifting aimlessly but now has direction in life and a sense of understanding and control over the sort of events that will occur now and in the future.

The future need not be like the past, provided one makes the appropriate kind of karma now. Knowing what karma to make and what to avoid is the mark of a wise person.

 

SUTRA: Short Exposition on Karma

For one who knows-and-sees, it's easy to win!

1. Thus have I heard. On one occasion the [Buddha] was living in Savatthi in Jeta's Grove, in the multimillionaire's Park.

 

Then Sub, the Brahmin student, Todeyya's son, went to the [Buddha] and exchanged greetings. When the courteous and amiable talk concluded, Sub sat down respectfully to one side and said:

 

2. "Master Gautama [the Buddha's surname], what is the reason, what is the condition, as to why inferiority and superiority are met with among human beings, among humankind?

"One meets short-lived and long-lived people, sick and healthy people, ugly and beautiful people, insignificant and influential people, poor and rich people, low-born and high-born people, stupid and intelligent people.

"What is the reason, what is the condition, as to why superiority and inferiority are met with among human beings, among humankind?"

The Buddha answers
3. "Brahmin, beings are owners of karmas, heirs of karmas, they have karmas as their progenitor, karmas as their kin, karmas as their homing-place. It is karmas that differentiate beings according to inferiority and superiority."
 

Winning numbers: 15-23-53-65-70-7 (10/19/18)

4. "I do not understand the detailed meaning of Master Gautama's utterance spoken in brief without expounding the detailed meaning. It would be good if Master Gautama taught me the Dharma so that I might understand the detailed meaning of this utterance spoken in brief without expounding the detailed meaning."

 

"Then listen, Brahmin, and heed well what I explain."

 

"Even so, Master Gautama," Sub the Brahmin replied. Then the [Buddha] explained... More

 

The "American War": businessmen make more money from war than from lottery: 3 top Afghan officials killed while US general is fine
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Who/what really killed Anthony Bourdain?

A Call For An Uprising, June 10, 2018; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Illuminati? We were a happy power-couple with a child and, anyway, he was going to talk.

A depressed, tormented addict finds financial and critical success and then meets and dates a beautiful witch, a real "red witch" out for power and full of martial arts expertise. Her name is Asia Argento and together they had a beautiful daughter, not yet a teenager.

Strange headline in India making connection

Surprise, surprise, she is a high-ranking witch, a part of the beautiful #metoo movement [which we love but agree may have already been co-opted and misused to promote some other agenda(s) or to work against the very thing it says it's working for]. This Christian, "A Call for an Uprising," gives his take. Maybe he has a phobia about feminism, yoga, meditation, and New Age stuff, but in the end Bourdain is dead, leaving behind a child he loves to fend for herself with a single mother. Who can believe he "strangled" himself? Are there "demons" (rakshasas, yakkhas, nagas, pretas, asuras, kumbhandas)? If so what do they do when someone leaves them an opening by doing rituals or wearing inviting symbols? More

• Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, Avicii "suicides": a week of coincidences or something more?
• Confirmed: Anthony Bourdain killed to hide Pizzagate (2)

That b*tch called me a "b*tch"! (video)

Cardi B; "Bhadd Baby" Danielle Bregoli; Kendrick Lamar, Delaney; Kanye West, JohnExArmy, Charlamagne; Bela, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly\
WARNING: Profanity, gratuitous use of the word "b*tch," the term "ratchet," and F-word!

WARNING: Don't sing along in public! Unless you're qualified by pervasive social norms.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar became the first non-classical, non-jazz musician to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for Music. Lamar has topped the charts with music that tackles issues of race, politics, religion, and even mental health. The Pulitzer follows the five Grammy Awards won by Lamar in January for DAMN., his fourth studio album. His previous album, To Pimp a Butterfly, also won five Grammys. Lamar recently produced and curated the soundtrack for the Black Panther film to critical acclaim. He will not, however, tolerate white people singing the word "[blank]" when singing along to his songs even when he calls them up to sing with him. Word. More + VIDEO

COMMENTARY

We disagree with Kendrick and the audience, but it's not our choice. And we don't want it to be our choice. Let Lamar, other rappers, and the oppressed communities referred to be the ones to decide how they are referred to, even when re-appropriating or taking the sting out of a defamatory and highly offensive term with strong racial and socioeconomic terms. Can we all, eventually, just get along? Not now, but in the future? Reparations are needed, but the whole discussion is a non-starter.
 

WARNING: Vulgar, profanity, N-word, sexual references, gratuitous, ratchet! Oprah Winfrey's favorite album contained "Bodak Yellow," Winfrey claims. Don't sing along!

(The Supremekati) The Original "Catch Me Outside How 'Bout Dat?" #CashMeOutside

(Jonathan Miller) Make a deal with Baphomet? Even if you don't believe, they do. And they won't let you "make it" in Hollywood without a sealed deal where they control you.

Is Kanye West waking up from MK Ultra?

Is it possible for Kanye to be woke? Hes' a Kardashian. If Kanye has escaped the sunken place then the elite rulers of Hollywood will quickly attempt to silence him. Kanye West full interview.

Exposing these "royal" weddings
Royal wedding is a joke (German reptilian hybrids laughing)
 

Operative?

Offensive troll Alex Jones [Could he have anything true and useful to say?] breaks down the House of Windsor. What are their last names? Harry who? Princess Di what? Charles? We never hear it. Bi-racial black American Meghan Markle is now "Her Royal Majesty Duchess of Sussex." How cool is that? But she has lost much and may be getting set up to become an Illuminati "sacrifice" like beloved American Princess Di(e). I'm retiring soon [because I've been outed and am no longer a useful apparatchik to the CIA and/or right wing extremists?]

The man who cracked the LOTTERY

Reid Forgrave, illustrations by Francesco Francavilla (New York Times, May 3, 2018); Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

When the Iowa attorney general’s office began investigating an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, an incredible string of unlikely winners came to light. The trail pointed to an inside job.

 

The file landed on Rob Sand’s desk with something less than a thud. Despite holding the contents of an investigation still open after more than two years, the file was barely half an inch thick. “Happy birthday,” his boss said.

 

It was not Rob Sand’s birthday. His boss, an Iowa deputy attorney general named Thomas H. Miller, was retiring in July 2014 after nearly three decades of prosecuting everything from murder to fraud.

He hired Sand about four years earlier and made him the youngest prosecutor in a nine-attorney team that handled challenging cases all over the state. Now Miller was offloading cases to colleagues. This one, having to do with a suspicious lottery ticket worth $16.5 million, was full of dead ends.

Mega Millions lotto jackpot grows! Buy now!

Investigators didn’t even know if a crime had been committed. The most tantalizing pieces of evidence were on a DVD: two grainy surveillance clips from a gas station. Sand slid the disc into his laptop and pressed play.

A man walked into a QuikTrip convenience store just off Interstate 80 in Des Moines. It was a weekday afternoon, two days before Christmas.

The hood of the man’s black sweatshirt was pulled over his head, obscuring his face from two surveillance cameras overhead. Under the hoodie, he appeared to be wearing a ball cap; over the hoodie, he wore a black jacket. The man grabbed a fountain drink and two hot dogs.

 

“Hello!” the cashier said brightly.

 

The man replied in a low-pitched drawl, a voice that struck Sand as distinct: “Hell-ooooh.” More

Avicii, EDM star DJ, DEAD at 28 (video)

Dev, Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Avicii Mexico, doc, April 2, 2018

Coachella sighs. Avicii, top electronic dance music artist, found dead at 28 One of the world's biggest dance music stars has died today, his representatives say. Swedish rave sensation Avicii, electronic dance music DJ, found dead (usatoday.com). The Swedish EDM (electronic dance music) DJ Avicii, 28, died this afternoon in Oman, according to a statement from his representative. Avicii Dead: Musicians, Celebrities React (variety.com). Following news of the death of DJ Tim Bergling, a.k.a. Avicii [the name of worst place in Buddhist cosmology, the lowest and most miserable hell, "the waveless," which is what Bergling called his final release AVI CI], on Friday, celebrities expressed their condolences on social media.

Avicii dead: Swedish DJ and musician passes away aged 28 (independent.co.uk). The Swedish-born producer and DJ known as Avicii has been found dead in Oman. The musician -- born Tim Bergling -- was 28. Avicii's publicist Diana Baron confirmed the news in a statement that the DJ was in Muscat, Oman when he passed away. Avicii: Swedish DJ dead at 28 (cnn.com).

Tim Bergling, the Grammy-nominated Swedish DJ better known as Avicii, died Friday, his publicist confirmed to CNN. Avicii was in Muscat, Oman, according to a representative. Avicii, electronic dance music producer and DJ, is dead at 28 (nytimes.com) Tim Bergling, who worked with pop stars like Madonna and Coldplay under the stage name Avicii, was found dead in Muscat, Oman. What is Avicii's cause of death? Swedish DJ found dead (newsweek.com).

Why does anyone care? Avicii had hundreds of millions of views.

Harvey Weinstein, Jewish, rapist, mogul

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; NY Daily News; New Yorker

"I'm not afraid of you, Harvey!" (nydailynews.com)

Lesbian Hillary Clinton defends Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein...until now. #PizzaGate

[Gay?] Matt Damon, a Weinstein Company beneficiary, is all about Harvey Weinstein

.

Harvey Weinstein Ousted from His Company

Me, too, says Gwyneth about Uncle Harvey

[Thanks, Donna Karan. How does it feel to trash women?] The Weinstein Company's board has decided to dismiss the Hollywood producer "in light of new information about [sexual] misconduct." [How to decipher: We've had this information, but now that everyone else has it, we can't afford the liability. It could cost us way too much, and this business, show business, is all about money and influence pedaling...and molestation.] His termination follows last week's report in the New York Times detailing sexual harassment [and now multiple rape] allegations against Mr. Weinstein spanning multiple decades. He and his brother, Bob, reportedly still retain 42 percent ownership of the company they founded.—The New York Times

• Crucial part of Harvey Weinstein story: alleged enablers

Sexy Harvey Weinstein with [compromised?] Amy Adams (pagesix.com)

• VIDEO (NY Daily News): Louisette Geiss accuses Weinstein with Gloria Allred 

  

  Maybe she was asking for it, right Harv?

  Former actress Louisette Geiss was another Hollywood hopeful back in 2008 when Harvey Weinstein lured her to a hotel room, "grabbed" her arm and pressured her to watch him masturbate, she said Tuesday. Geiss described the attack, her eyes welling with tears, during a press conference with her lawyer Gloria Allred.

Bill Cosby is so relieved to hear news about Harvey

Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, Bill O'Reilly, Billary, Roger Ailes, Harvey, Donald = Patriarchs.

Bill O'Reilly, and Fox News boss Roger Ailes, say this is normal behavior for them.

Mainstream media loves a Hollywood or DC sex scandal. It sells tabloids.

Rape culture: "Consent is a myth" t-shirt at Sheffield bar crawl, "Rape is not a crime" (Tab)

How to be a LOTTERY winner (sutra)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly, Piyajatika Sutra (MN 87) edited by Wisdom Quarterly based on a poor translation by Ven. Thanissaro; Calottery.com/contact-us/contact-us-FAQs; AP

Rejoice! Mavis L. Wanczyk, 53, a Massachusetts hospital worker, stepped forward to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history — $758.7 million Powerball prize! (AP)

You've won, now what?

Poor tax? I'll take 1,000 of them.

In past posts we've explained how to win. Now you've won. The first thing to do -- since the money won't be coming for at least six weeks -- is read THE WINNER'S HANDBOOK (see below).

Plan ahead. Get an accountant. Retain a lawyer. Hire a handler who comes between you and everyone else, like that guy Kelley who runs blockage for Trump now. This filter will keep you sane and keep panhandlers at bay. They can apply for money rather than asking directly.

• MONEY POT: ~$758 million
• WINNING NUMBERS: 6 7 16 23 26 (Powerball 4)
• Three California tickets got 5 out of 6 numbers
• Hospital worker claims record lottery jackpot
• Clerk just happy to have touched winning ticket
• Police boost patrols around Powerball winner

 
You Just Won Big!

Remember, donate to the Reality Winner Fund!

Congratulations as you begin a new and exciting chapter of your life! We always say that winning a lottery prize should never be a nightmare or complicate your life. If you plan well, surround yourself with trusted advisors and make smart decisions this will be one of the best experiences of your life.
 
You have many important decisions ahead of you, so we at the California Lottery thought we’d share some key information with you that may be helpful in the weeks to come. This detailed booklet explains just about everything you need to know now that you’ve won a large sum of money.

We realize that you have a lot on your mind. Take a moment to review and consider these suggestions and recommendations, sooner, rather than later. Below are some key points to consider when getting started.
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There will be immediate interest in your story. According to California public disclosure laws, your name is public record. That means the media will likely attempt to contact you to ask a lot of fun questions about your win! Their efforts are made easier in this day and age of internet search engines.
 
With that in mind, we urge you to consider taking part in media availability. We’ll take care of everything along the way by planning and guiding you through the media process. Winners have been better able to satisfy these media requests in one shot and get on with their lives.
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The name and location of the retailer who sold you the winning ticket, the date you won and the amount of your winnings are also matters of public record and are subject to disclosure.
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You can form a trust prior to claiming your prize, but our regulations do not allow a trust to claim a prize. Understand that your name is still public and reportable.
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If you are concerned about people trying to contact you, consider changing your cell and home phone numbers or allowing your voicemail to pick up calls for a few days.
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An attorney can help protect you and your assets. Interview at least three licensed attorneys and select the one you feel most comfortable with.
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An accountant can make sure your taxes are in order year after year (more details inside). Interview several Certified Public Accountants. Remember, you will have to pay federal taxes on your win.
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If you plan to invest your money, do so wisely. You may consider the services of a qualified investment planner. Again, interview at least three and select the one you are most comfortable with.
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You may decide you want to hire an attorney, an accountant and an investment planner from three different firms so that they act independently from one another.
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Remember—you are the boss. They work for you!
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You will receive many offers to donate, invest or even give away your money. Always consult your experts.
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Spending fast and furious will only fast and furiously separate you from your winnings. Be careful with your newfound wealth! Below are some reputable associations to help you assemble your legal and financial team.


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Martindale-Hubbell Directory: martindale.com
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California State Bar: calbar.ca.gov
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The California Society of Certified Public Accountants:
(800) 922-5272 | calcpa.org
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National Association of Personal Financial Advisors:
(800) 366-2732 or (888) 333-6659 | napfa.org
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The Financial Planning Association:
(800) 322-4237 | fpanet.org

• General Questions
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- When you win, don't cling! -

  

SUTRA:  "From What is Dear"

Piyajatika Sutra  (MN 87) edited by Wisdom Quarterly based on trans. by Ven. Thanissaro

Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi at Jeta's Grove, in Anathapindika's monastery.

Now at that time a certain householder's dear and beloved little son, his only child, had died. Because of his death, the father had no desire to work or eat. He kept going to the graveyard and crying out, "Where have you gone, my only little child? Where have you gone, my only little child?"

• He lost his mind, his faculties, the way gamblers lose their minds, their faculties when they lose their money or property -- even the potential for winnings they were never in possession of -- experience wracking pain as if they had lost their only son. This is how it is with things we hold dear, grasp, and cling  to, not seeing things as they truly are. We live in danger with no knowledge of the means of escape. We are desperate and in our desperation we begin to lose our grip even as we want to cling more and more, as if clinging were the answer when in fact it's a big part of the problem.

Then he went to the Blessed One [the Buddha] and, on arrival, bowed and sat respectfully to one side. As he was sitting there the Blessed One said to him, "Householder, your faculties are not those of one who is steady in mind. There is an aberration in your faculties."

When Queen Mallika heard the Buddha-Dharma, she became a stream-winner (first stage of enlightenment). This results in perfect confidence/faith (saddha) in the Buddha.

 
...Now at that time a large number of gamblers were playing dice not far from the Blessed One [the Buddha]. So the householder went to the householders and, on arrival, said: "Just now, venerable sirs, I went to Gautama [the Buddha] the wandering ascetic and, on arrival, bowed and sat respectfully to one side.

"As I was sitting there, Gautama the wandering ascetic said to me, 'Householder, your faculties are not those of one who is steady in his own mind. There is an aberration in your faculties.'
 
"When this was said, I said to him, 'Venerable sir, how could there not be an aberration in my faculties? My dear and beloved little son, my only child, has died. Because of his death, I have no desire to work or eat. I keep going to the graveyard and crying out, "Where have you gone, my only little child? Where have you gone, my only little child?"'
 
"'That is the way it is, householder. That is the way it is -- for sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair are born from one who is dear, come springing from one who is dear.'
 
"'But, venerable sir, who would ever think that sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair are born from one who is dear, come springing from one who is dear? Happiness and joy are born from one who is dear, come springing from one who is dear.' So, not delighting in the words of Gautama the wandering ascetic , rejecting them, I got up from my seat and left."
 
"That's the way it is, householder [said the gamblers]. That's the way it is. Happiness and joy are born from one who is dear, come springing from one who is dear."
 
So the householder left, thinking, "I agree with the gamblers."

Faith: Queen Mallika was a stream-winner

Eventually, word of this conversation made its way into the king's inner chambers. Then King Pasenadi Kosala addressed Queen Mallika:

"Mallika, your wandering ascetic Gautama has said this: 'Sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair are born from one who is dear, come springing from one who is dear.'"
 
"If that was said by the Blessed One, great king, then that's the way it is."
 
"No matter what Gautama the wandering ascetic says, Mallika endorses it: 'If that was said by the Blessed One, great king, then that's the way it is.' Just as, no matter what his teacher says, a pupil endorses it: 'That's the way it is, teacher. That's the way it is.' In the same way, no matter what Gautama the wandering ascetic says, Mallika endorses it: 'If that was said by the Blessed One, great king, then that's the way it is.'

"Go away, Mallika! Get out of my sight!"
 

A stream-winner's faith in the Buddha

Then Queen Mallika called for the Brahmin Nalijangha: "Come, Brahmin. Go to the Blessed One and, on arrival, showing reverence with your head to his feet in my name, ask whether he is free from illness and affliction, is carefree, strong, and living in comfort, saying:

"'Queen Mallika, venerable sir, shows reverence with her head to your feet and asks whether you are free from illness and affliction, are carefree, strong, and living in comfort.'

"And then say: 'Venerable sir, did the Blessed One say that sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair are born from one who is dear, come springing from one who is dear?' Whatever the Blessed One says, remember it well and tell it to me [when you return]. For Tathagatas [wayfarers, buddhas] do not speak what is untrue."
 
"Yes, madam," the Brahmin Nalijangha responded to Queen Mallika. Going to the Blessed One, on arrival he exchanged courteous greetings with the Blessed One. After an exchange of friendly greetings and courtesies, he sat to one... More