"They pick up riches as bees roaming round pick up pollen. And their riches proceed to grow, like an ant-hill piling u…"

"Someone who grows in money and grain, in wives, children, and livestock, is wealthy, famous, and respected by relativ…"

"One might give alms impartially with a thousand coins of money month by month for a hundred years; but that is not wo…"

"Beings in the ghost world do not farm, herd cattle, trade, buy, sell, or use gold and money. They survive on merits s…"

"Selling poison, selling weapons, selling living beings, selling alcohol, selling meat, and, without having inspected …"

"At that time in the great city of Vaishali there was a rich man named Vimalakirti. [...] In a spirit of trust and har…"

"The ownership and the consumption of goods is a means to an end, and Buddhist economics is the systematic study of ho…"

"The cultivation and expansion of needs is the antithesis of wisdom. It is also the antithesis of freedom and peace. E…"

"For years, ever since it was first published, the Bardo Thodol has been my constant companion, and to it I owe not on…"

"They [the instructions that the work gives for the person who has died] are so detailed and thoroughly adapted to the…"