If you see the impermanence of
resources
And naturally have great compassion
You will know with good reason that the
gifts
You have kept in your house belong to
others.
There is never fear from what has been
given away;
What is kept at homes gives rise to
fears
That it is insufficient, ordinary, or
needing constant protection.
If you give it away, these faults
never harm you.
By giving you achieve happinness in
future lives;
Not giving brings suffering, even in
this life.
Human wealth is like a shooting star –
What is not given away will cease to
exist.
Wealth not given is transitory and will be gone;
By giving it away it remains a
treasury.
Wealth of no value comes to have value
When you strive to help living
beings.
The wise praise giving wealth away,
Childish persons like to hoard it;
No wealth is kept by holding on to it;
From giving it away excellence always
arises.
By giving things away, you no longer graps the
affliction;
Being miserly breads afflictions on an
ignoble path.
Noble beings say generosity is the best
path,
While its opposite is a bad path.
From
Compendium of the perfections.
Tsong-Kha-Pa, The Great
Treatise of the Stages on the Path to Enlightenment.
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