George Kinder is a Buddhist teacher and a Harvard-trained certified financial planner. In this well-organized and accessible volume, he presents his ideas on ways to achieve financial maturity. He gives a rounded and realistic understanding of the spiritual and psychological issues connected to money in our lives.
Kinder has identified seven stages of the path of maturity around money issues. They are:
1. Innocence: The childhood state where money does not play any role in our lives.
2. Pain: The time when we realize that some have more money than us and some less and that life requires us to work.
3. Knowledge: We come to see how important it is to save, budget, and invest our money.
4. Understanding: We come to terms with our emotional feelings around greed, envy, and resentment.
5. Vigor: Physical, emotional, and spiritual energy must be generated to reach our financial goals.
6. Vision: We tap into our inner wisdom and try to contribute to the health and well-being of communities.
7. Aloha: We practice compassion and service of others without expecting anything in return.
Kinder spices this book with illustrative material from the lives of ordinary people and proves that it is possible to attain freedom, peace ad meaning in our money lives.
