Wants vs. Needs

"The Master said: “I can live with coarse rice to eat, water for drink and my arm as a pillow and still be happy. Wealth and honors that one possesses in the midst of injustice are like floating clouds.” Analects 7:15

Yes, of course, the "needs" are the most essential. One must be able to comply such in order to live. The rice to eat, the water to drink, and a comfort resting; are needed. You cannot say that such can be taken for granted, as long as you are practicing righteousness with you, -NO! For how can you do such (practicing of righteous ways), if you are not able to fulfill your personal necessities, thus will die later on?

What the master pertained here to be less significant, therefore could be either lived with or without, is the "wants"; the individual desires, requests or wishes that are not really of use to one's existence. Well, it could somehow satisfy one's preference, but either way, one cannot say that, without it, he/she will die. 

Now, because of it's less importance, one can therefore, take for granted such desires for as long as one is still able to practice righteousness.

A beautiful mansion made by corruption and greed? Or a simple house made by righteous ways? It is still both houses anyway. Think again.