The Gift of Rice
(Monthly Gosho Passage – June 2010)
Some may have wives, children, retainers, estates, gold, silver or other treasures according to their status. Others have nothing at all. Yet whether one has wealth or not, life is still the most precious treasure. This is why the saints and sages of ancient times offered their lives to the Buddha, and were themselves able to attain Buddhahood.
(Gosho, p.1544; MW Vol.1, p. 267-268)