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Chinese Zen Master, known as Layman P'ang. Upon his retirement in middle age, he gave away his house for use as a Buddhist temple, put all his money and possessions onto a boat in a nearby lake, and sank it. "Since his wealth was great," one ancient account says, "he worried about it. Once he had decided to give it away, he thought to himself, 'If I give it to other people, they may become as attached to it as I was. It is better to give it to the country of nothingness.'" After this, he and his wife, son, and daughter earned their living by making and selling bamboo utensils.
-- from Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
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