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Buddhist scriptures say:

Greed is the real dirt, not dust;

Greed is the term for real dirt.

The wise have shaken off this dirt.

Too harsh for my taste.  All is dirt.  Greed is just the type that sticks well.  Life's sticky business, you know: you shake off one type of dirt, the other type sticks to you next.  The wise - if such exist - haven't shaken off all dirt, but are in the process of constant (but not necessarily literally continuous) detoxification.  No purity, I say, exists, just a hygiene of self-purifying.

Reference:

Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin Books, p. 123