Celine Dion is selling her house on Jupiter Island, Florida.
Would you need a 5000 year mortagage to buy it ?
Would you need a 5000 year mortagage to buy it ?
I think paying the interest alone would add a few more years to the time it took to pay that off.
The monthly principle and interest payment on a $72M dollar home for 30 years at 4% would be $343,739.01. (not including property taxes and homeowners insurance).
Of course someone who could buy a $72M home, would probably pay in cash.
Wow. I can't even fathom having that kind of money to be able to afford a house like that. It looks more like a resort. How on earth could you ever get to every room in it?
Buddha had not spoken about the exact length of the Maha-kalpa in number of years. However, he had given several astounding analogies to understand it.
1. Imagine a huge empty cube at the beginning of a kalpa, approximately 16 miles in each side. Once every 100 years, you insert a tiny mustard seed into the cube. According to the Buddha, the huge cube will be filled even before the kalpa ends.
2. Imagine a gigantic rocky mountain at the beginning of kalpa, approximately 16 x 16 x 16 miles (dwarfing Mt. Everest). You take a small piece of silk and wipe the mountain once every 100 years. According to the Buddha, the mountain will be completely depleted even before the kalpa ends.
In one situation, some monks wanted to know how many kalpas had died so far. The Buddha gave the analogy:
1. If you count the total number of sand particles at the depths of the Ganges river, from where it begins to where it ends at the sea, even that number will be less than the number of passed kalpas.
Kinda makes me sick, all that wealth while some people struggle to even have clean water.
Obscene. Really obscene.
It's beautiful but distressingly excessive...waste of resources.That made me think just one thing...Who really needs something like that??
True, but I don't really "need" my cellphone or prescription sunglasses, but I sure like them.No one "needs" that.