Teacher and Disciple (2)

Teacher: It causes great countries the severest depressions. And can set a human being into an ecstatic state of mind and life. Too much or too less, it will always cause you trouble. An immature mean of rewarding and punishing. Its idea is the greatest, but it does not synchronize with human nature, just like communism. Its mere existence drives people to forget their principles, morals, religiong, laws. Yet, it becomes the most important principle in life.
Disciple: Teacher, does it relate to enlightment?
Teacher: No, it does not, although its possession causes other people to think big of you. It measures things, but not the soul or the mind or the heart. It's the source of everything good, and everything bad.
Disciple: Teacher, does it give me freedom?
Teacher: Freedom is a relative term. Define freedom, and you will need it. Live through the state freedom, and you will need it. Kill freedom, and you will still need it. But it will give you satisfactory freedom.
Disciple: And what does that mean?
Teacher: That it makes you the victim of its very own self.
Disciple: Does it have a soul?
Teacher: Your soul feeds it. And it feeds your soul. Yet, as a matter of fact it's nothing more than a piece of metal or a sheet of paper.
Disciple: Teacher, do you talk of money?
Teacher: This is the enlightment I did not want you to have. But indeed, it's the purpose of what I have said.