Proverbs 22:7 Meaning The Rich Rule Over the Poor

Riches and poverty here are two conditions inside one mind. The part that believes it has, and the part that believes it lacks, and lack is the ego's whole invention, the conviction that something essential is missing and must be gotten from outside. Whatever the mind thinks it borrowed, love, worth, safety, it then feels bound to serve, because it has made another the owner of what was always its own. So the bondage is not imposed by a lender at all. It is the mind's belief that it is empty, handing away its freedom to whatever it credits with filling the gap.

The release is to see there was no debt. A mind that knows it already holds everything owes nothing and serves no one, and the ruler and the servant were the same mind, divided only by fear.

Rich man: the part of the mind that believes it holds what it needs, set in rule over its own sense of lack Poor man: the part of the mind convinced it lacks, the belief in emptiness that the ego invents Borrower and lender: the mind bound in service to whatever it credits with supplying what it thinks it does not already own