... my readers will arrive on the matter. The subject of Ritual Murder has always been one that the Jewish Money Power, which controls this country as well as most others, has taken all possible steps to suppress. The reason is that Ritual Murder was the dynamite which finally blew the Jew out of England in 1290, out of Spain in 1492, and out of Germany in our time. The Jews know it; and I know it too...

... relies for its success upon the ridiculous charge that a breach of the peace is likely if the truth about them is spoken! I do so in order that the Jews shall not escape simply through the power of Money and Masonry from bearing the burden of a charge which, in my opinion, has been proved against some of them through the ages. My object is, and always has been, in spite of what my Masonic Judge had to...

... that the Jewish religious law not only-does not sanction the practice of Ritual Murder, but forbids the consumption of blood altogether. It is an argument that has been used throughout the ages, and is used now, and has even been the foundation for the verdict "Not Guilty," in cases where Jews have been on trial for ritual murder! It was the argument used by the Sultan of Turkey when, for money...

... Sturmer, the paper of Julius Streicher, in a special Ritual Murder issue published in 1934, shows that in the 19th century 32 charges of ritual murder were made, which is ten more than in any other century in European history recorded by it. The fact that the charges increase in number as the age becomes more and more enlightened is particularly significant, because the Jewish Money Power and its...

... also in the Victoria Country History of Norfolk, 1906, Vol. II, is an illustration of an old painted rood-screen depicting the Ritual Murder of St. William, the screen itself is in Loddon Church, Norfolk, unless the Power of Jewish Money has had it removed. No one denies this case as a historical event, but the Jews of course say it was not a Ritual Murder. The Jew, C. Roth, in his The Ritual Murder...

... Jewish Money Power has evidently been at work, for between 1910 and 1930, a notice was fixed above the shrine as follows: "The body of Hugh was given burial in the Cathedral and treated as that of a martyr. When the Minster was repaved, the skeleton of a small child was found beneath the present tombstone. There are many incidents in the story which tend to throw doubt upon it, and the existence of...

... intent on loot and led on by fanatic priests and knightly spendthrifts who had borrowed Jewish money. When 18th century writers of history began to examine the old records in a new sceptical temper, some may be found venturing on such unkind surmises as that the alleged crucifictions of Christian children only seemed to happen when kings were short of money." The foul accusation against men of upright...

... certain English administrators, known to be men of good morals, of murdering and torturing Jews to get their money, after accusing them of horrible crimes. In the case of St. Hugh, the sentence was juridical; in the case of St. William, the mob took the matter into their own hands because the Sheriff would take no action himself. Whom do you believe the Jews or the English? "It is difficult to refuse...

... it that the Jewish Money Power began to dictate to the Press in England somewhere in the fifties of the last century. Chapter VIII Well authenticated cases in early and medieval times 1171 to 1510 IN this, and subsequent chapters, I place descriptions of cases in chronological order, in which there seems to me to be no reason whatever to dispute the historical accuracy of the facts given. In this...

... Polna, 1899. In this century, the Jewish Money Power had obtained control over the finances of many European countries, and the reader will see for himself how it was exerted on Rulers, Governments, Courts and "public opinion" whenever the Blood Accusation was brought against the Jews. 1823. Velisch, Russia. On Easter Sunday, a 21 year old boy disappeared. His body was found in a marsh one week later...

... Jewish Money Power, in spite of all the efforts of "the Greek clergy and the European consuls." Authorities: M. P. - N. Hamont in Egypt under Mehemet Ali, and the Jewish Encyclopedia as cited. 1840. The Damascus Case. This case, now almost completely forgotten by Democracy, convulsed Europe for a considerable time owing to the agitation induced by the Jewish Money Power which left no stone unturned to...

... make the Jews speak. The Jewish Money Power has endeavoured to make the world believe that it was only the torture which enforced confession from innocent men. Unfortunately for the Jewish Money Power, one of the questions asked was about the place where the remains of Father Thomas had been disposed of; and the remains were found where the prisoners said they were -- that is, in a covered conduit...

... Gentile to the facts if they became generally known. As soon as the first reports of the case reached the West of Europe the Jewish Money Power rose like one man to try and cover the obvious tracks made by the obvious criminals. Money can, as we know only too well, accomplish wonders on a democracy as also on the Endings and policy of Eastern (and alas! often also Western) potentates. It will perhaps be...

... induced to flock to a big meeting at the Mansion House in London, there to denounce the Blood Accusation of which they knew nothing at all, and to offer the Jews the sympathy of the British Nation! Paris, New York, Philadelphia and other towns followed suit! 3. Bribery of the Khedive of Egypt by Money. The rich Jews, Moses Montefiore in England, Cremieux and Munck in France, went off hotfoot to the East...

.... They applied to the Khedive of Egypt, whose regime included Damascus, for a revision of the sentence. He was offered and accepted a huge sum of money and released the condemned Jews. Note the result. The Jews proclaimed everywhere that the Khedive had reversed the verdict! He had done nothing of the kind. There was no reversal and no re-trial. The words of the Khedive's firman which he issued to...

... them is stated to have been half a million piastres. A converted Rabbi, Chevalier P. L. B. Drach, wrote in his The Harmony between the Church and the Synagogue (1844, Paris, p. 79): "Money played a great role in this business." 4. Bribery of the Sultan. Having won the first round with the Khedive, the Jew Montefiore went on to see the Sultan of Turkey, and secured from him a decree that the Blood...

...; Rothschild's money power; the Austrian Chancellor, Metternich; the Austrian Consul at Damascus; the Consul's attitude towards the Ritual Murder charge. A continuous chain of Jewish corruption by Money. 7. Suppression of the Reports of the Trial. We have already mentioned in the second paragraph of this description of the case the record of the trial published in Achille Laurent's book. This book cannot now...

... Eszlar Case in Hungary This is a nineteenth century case, where the prisoners had duly confessed, and where, after long drawn out proceedings, they were all acquitted as the result of the Organised Power of Jewish Money. Esther Solymosi, 14 years old, disappeared on 1st April; the five-year-old son of the Jewish sexton told some women that his mother had enticed the girl into their house, whence she...

... work with its Money Power, and the Press of every country in Europe was employed to throw calumny on the Hungarian Court and on Hungarian Justice. The Public Prosecutors were bribed and set to work to discredit the honourable Judge who presided over the Court. No stone was left unturned, no filthy corrupting action left untried, to defeat the course of justice; and the Jews won. Here are some of the...

... minor methods by which the Jews with their money tried to confuse the issue: By paying the debts of, or bribing the officials. By offering Esther's mother a bribe to say that her daughter was alive and in a situation elsewhere. This was done by the Jew Reiszmann. By trying to steal the Court records from the house of the Judge. By altering the synagogue lock, so that it was no longer possible to see...

... representative of Rothschild's, had demanded that the charges be withdrawn! At this time, debt-conversion was a serious matter for Hungary, and chiefly depended on the Rothschild Money Power. Later, Baton Orczy told Pauler that Goldschmidt actually demanded that the two Public Prosecutors who had made condemnation of the prisoners impossible should be decorated! The sort of thing that had been "worked" against...

... statements, as also his confession. The two men produced satisfactory alibis. By the Power of Jewish Money and the agitation it was able to raise, a new trial was ordered. Meanwhile Dr. Baxa, attorney for the murdered girl's mother, had in a speech in the Bohemian Dict, 28th December, accused the Government of showing partiality to the Jews in the way they handled this case. Then, another girl's body was...

.... The body was found in a wood, with throat cut from ear to ear superficially whilst there was a deep stab in the neck cutting the main vessels. The body was bloodless and there was no blood found near it. It was just before Passover, and the local Jewish butcher had suddenly disappeared. Dr. Burgel, the Court doctor, said it was a case of Ritual Murder. The Jew Money Power got to work to influence...

... of criticism." How strangely the Jewish mind works! How could anyone fail to be "anti-semitic" if they believed that that Jews commit ritual murder of Gentile children? If there is not a glut of literature on the subject in English, it is not any ordeal of criticism which has brought about the scarcity, but the Jewish Money Power which has been brought to bear on that literature, making it so...

... attitude of the Austrian consul at Damascus through the Chancellor Metternich, in the 1840 case. On p. 30 is shown how the same Rothschild family were able to threaten the Government of Hungary so as to induce it to cause the acquittal of the accused Jews in the 1882 case at Tisza Eszlar. In all methods of propaganda, the Jew Money Power ends ready allies among the gullible Gentiles, particularly among...

... ward "for the sake of getting possession of some property." This sounds like the usual cock-and-bull story which, under the powerful influence of Jew Money, is resorted to when Courts are faced with the difficult job of shielding Jews from "the Blood Accusation." Why on earth should the man crucify the boy instead of quietly getting rid of him in a more usual manner? Authority: Jewish Encyclopedia...

... similar to those expressed by Masons, and are almost always pernicious. However, there was a time when Protestants were Protestants, unaffected by Masonry or by the powerful propaganda of which Jewish money is the source. Martin Luther seems to have had an inkling of the true nature of the Jew when he said: "How the Jews love the Book of Esther, which is so suitable to their bloodthirsty, revengeful...

..., though stated by booksellers to be of no great rarity or value; in the London Library there is no copy, but there is a Jewish refutation of it! Our nation has been so carefully schooled by the Jewish Money Power, which has been able to destroy or rarefy all sources of information on Ritual Murder, that the twentieth century Protestant Church has come to believe that the thing is a mere relic of...

... another? And are you certain that you are saved? Your face, your eyes do not give any proof of it; you look angry. Even a nice man like Jesus was an angry man. Who gave him the authority to beat the money-changers in the temple of Jerusalem and throw them out? Self-appointed judges.... Jesus wanted to save the world - he could not even save himself. And he has left an ugly heritage which goes on growing...

... the money of the world, still you will be running after money. You may have all the knowledge, and still you will be running after more knowledge. In every dimension there is infinite space to run. I have heard.... A man and his wife were flying in a plane; the man was piloting. The plane was going full speed, and the wife asked, "Where are we going?" The man said, "Don't bother where...

.... There is not much space for all of them to coexist. When you think of progress... it starts with your lovemaking - a mad race - and where do you end? You end with a woman. Great, just great! And then your whole life it is the same, the same story. People are running after power, people are running after money, people are running after respectability. People are running after everything you can imagine...

... supported by Jewish money. And it was in the hands of America, because American forces were there in Israel to hand over the country to anybody - either to Christians or to Mohammedans or to Jews. It was a Mohammedan country and it would have been right to give it back to them. But Christians are against Mohammedans for a very simple thing - that's why I say this whole world needs to be finished - a very...

... one, there is no need of different colors on the map. If the world dissolves the nations, whom are you going to fight? And if the world becomes a little more intelligent and drops all religious nonsense, whom are you going to fight? And if you are not going to fight, there will be no Ethiopia, there will be no poor India - because all your energy, all your money, all your resources that are going...

... Ethiopia. All has disappeared, it never reached Ethiopia. The same has happened before; Ethiopia has been in trouble for four years. In the name of humanity, service, these missionaries collect the money and swallow it. Last year when the fifteen million dollars simply disappeared, it was enquired what had happened. The Christian missionaries said they did not want to send the money to the Ethiopian...

... government, so they found a French agency to distribute the money, food, clothes, to the starving Ethiopians. When the French agency was asked, they could not believe it; they had never heard about these missionaries. Ethiopia will be there, more Ethiopians will be there tomorrow. Small efforts won't help. I don't believe in throwing a spoonful of sugar into the ocean to make it sweet. I am not retarded...

... wife seems to be just a model of a machine; whenever he has money he purchases a new wife - fifty rupees, sixty rupees, at the most a hundred rupees - and sells his old wife. He has used the old wife for one year, that's enough. We are taught in the schools and universities that this is a great civilization - and women are being sold like cattle! The survey in these two districts has revealed that...

... destructive weapons; every year new weapons are available. What are you going to do with the old weapons which you have piled up for years? Now they have become absolutely useless and you have wasted so much money. Almost seventy percent of every large nation's money goes into creating armies, destructive weapons, nuclear weapons. They need the small nations to go on fighting, because they purchase the old...

... world. It seems to be unbelievable, but since the second world war there have been nearabout three hundred wars. They have been small wars, because big nations need them. Wars are their market; otherwise all the money is lost which they have invested in arms which have become out of date. It became a strange situation when America a few days ago attacked Iran. It was not only foolish, it was also...

... cannot say no." I said, "But do you consider humanity at all?" He said, "Money is the god; people don't say it clearly, but I say it clearly. I will make every opportunity yield as much money as possible. It is just like milking the cow; I go on milking as long as even a drop of milk remains." I said to him, "You have been educated in the West, in the most prominent...

... medical institutions, but that does not mean that you have to forget completely the Eastern attitude that man is the ultimate value." He said, "On that point I cannot agree with you. I agree with you on all points, but about money don't say anything to me." And I know that it is not only him, but almost everybody has fallen so low that nothing matters in life except money. You can...

... purchase anybody - prime ministers are purchased, presidents of countries are purchased. You can purchase anybody, you just have to give the right amount of money. These stories are of the time when man was dignified and was in search of his inner source. AFTER THAT, HE HAD NO DESIRE TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE - once you have found your master, the desire to go anywhere else disappears - SO HE CHANGED HIS ROBE...

... - Indian sannyasins, I mean - belong to the first category, the best people. Nine percent belong to the second category: the ugly people, the fools. They have not come here for me. Some have come because there are so many beautiful women around, some have come to cheat, to borrow money, to steal. We are trying to throw them out, but still a few somehow manage to get in. They even meditate to show that...

... was so poor while he was alive that he would only eat three days a week. He used to get enough money from his brother to eat the cheapest food for the whole week, but he had to save some money for canvases and paints and colours and brushes, so he had to starve for four days to save a little money. He committed suicide when he was only thirty-three, just because it was so difficult to survive...

.... Nobody would accept his paintings; there was no question of anybody purchasing them. People even refused to accept his paintings for hanging in their houses. He would present his paintings free to people and they threw them in the basement or somewhere else. His brother, thinking that he was feeling so sad because he had not sold a single painting in his life, sent one man with some money to go and...

... purchase one painting. The man went. Van Gogh could not believe his ears that there should be one man in the whole world who was ready to purchase his paintings, so he showed them with great interest. But the man was not interested in the paintings at all. He said, "Any painting will do. You keep this money and give me the painting." Immediately he understood what the matter was. He said, "...

...;Forget about purchasing the painting! It seems my brother has sent you, so take this money back. It is better to die without selling a painting!" And the same day he committed suicide - it was enough. He painted nearabout one thousand paintings; eight hundred paintings have been lost because people never cared about them. When his paintings started becoming famous after his death, people started...

... searching for his paintings. They were found in all kinds of places - people's basements, bathrooms. And they were easily purchased; people were very willing to give them away for a little money or even for no money. Now each single painting is valued at one million dollars. That's how people have always functioned, so there is nothing unnatural about it. People have their own understanding... Two kids...

.... [Another sannyasin said she too was having difficulties in her relationship. Her boyfriend felt less and less like making love and this made her upset and frustrated, and she then became aggressive towards him. She said they were also at variance over how they used their money, as she wanted to be thrifty so they could stay in Poona longer, while he spent money easily and seemingly with no thought for...

... everything more ugly and it will do just the opposite of what you want. Money is not important... and it may be just a trick to control. [Osho said that they could either be here for longer, both in conflict, unhappy, or stay a shorter time more happily.] Just see the point. It is a question of quality, not of quantity. How many days you are here is irrelevant. You may be here for only one day, but if you...

... are really with me and happy and celebrat- ing, that's enough. That will change your whole life. And this is how things go. If you are too miserly, he will spend too much because that will become just an act of being free. He will show you that you cannot control him. If you don't control him, he himself may understand that he is unnecessarily wasting money. But let him see! Women are very money...

...-minded; more interested in the material part of life, and they miss many things. That's why you don't see great women poets, great women painters, great women saints. They are more interested in ordinary things. Anything that has a qualitative dimension seems meaningless to them. Money will be more meaningful than music. They miss much. They think that they are very practical; they are not. This is the...

... him money for charity until only seventeen dinars were left [of the seven hundred]. On the eve of the Day of Atonement the Government sent and seized them. R. Johanan b. Zakkai said to them, 'Do not fear [that you will lose any more]; you had seventeen dinars and these they have taken.' They said to him, 'How did you know that this was going to happen?' He replied, 'I saw it in a dream.' 'Then why...

... delivers him from the punishment of Gehinnom? The one in connection with which the word 'wrath' is used, as it is written, A day of wrath is that day.29  What kind of charity is that which delivers a man from an unnatural death? To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Life also occurs in connection with wisdom, Prov. VIII, 35. I.e., money wherewith to do charity...

...; 'The beggar receives without knowing from whom he receives': this excludes the practice of R. Abba.2  How is a man then to do? — He should put his money into the charity box. The following was adduced in objection to this: 'What is a man to do in order that he may have male offspring? R. Eliezer says that he should give generously to the poor; R. Joshua says that he should make his wife...

... glad to perform the marital office. R. Eliezer b. Jacob says: A man should not put a farthing into the charity box unless it is under the supervision of a man like R. Hanina b. Teradion'?3  — In saying [that a man should put his money into the charity box] we mean, when it is under the supervision of a man like R. Hanina b. Teradion. R. Abbahu said: Moses addressed himself to the Holy One...

.... Ammi also anxious not to offend the Government? — [He was angry] because he ought to have distributed the money to the non-Jewish poor. But Raba did distribute it to the non-Jewish poor? — The reason R. Ammi was indignant was - To Next Folio - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Who used every day to put four zuzim in a box for the poor of his immediate...

... ransom that was to be taken from the Israelites whenever they were numbered, Ex. XXX, 12. This ransom was to be given for the service of the Tabernacle, but money given for charity according to the Rabbis serves the same purpose. Ps. CXII, 9. Isa. XXXIII, 16. Isa. XXIV, 23. I.e., everyone who is honoured in this world for his wisdom. I.e., the poor who are despised here are highly honoured there. But v...

... Zurich investigates and finds only 200 accounts totalling ten million dollars Bronfman has given almost nothing to the alleged holocaust victims he claimed the money was for Earl of Caithness: if government accept their responsibility for controlling the money supply and change from our debt-based monetary system, then monetary system will break us A Jew, Michael Levy agreed to raise large sums of...

... money for the Labour Party, so long as they never became, "anti-Israel," whilst Blair is leader Another Jew, David Sainsbury, becomes the Labour Party's single largest donator this year Both Levy and Sainsbury are given life peerages and become Lords, following Blair's election victory Edmond de Rothschild dies in Geneva Kofi Annan becomes Secretary General to the United Nations. He is married to Nane...

..., through corruption, the vast wealth of Russia ends up in the hands of the so-called, "Seven Oligarchs," all of them new billionaires who backed Boris Yeltsin with money and media support. The seven are, Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Friedman, Alexander Smolensky, and Pyotr Aven, all Jewish, and one Russian, Vladimir Potanin. Potanin would be used as the others...

... Jewish Congress, effectively extorts one and a half billion dollars from Switzerland for alleged holocaust victims Edgar Bronfman, chairman of the World Jewish Congress, effectively extorts one and a half billion dollars from Switzerland for alleged holocaust victims who he claimed had deposited their money there. He has no proof, but the Swiss government give in as Bronfman is one of President...

... the World War 2, which subsequently discovers that only 200 accounts, containing a total of approximately ten million dollars, less than one percent of the one and a half billion dollars extorted by Bronfman, could be traced back to alleged holocaust victims. Bronfman has given almost nothing to the alleged holocaust victims he claimed the money was for Does Bronfman give the Swiss back the other 99...

...% of the one and a half billion dollars? Of course not, and incidentally some six years later he has given almost nothing to the alleged holocaust victims he claimed the money was for. Bronfman simply misappropriated his ill gotten gains that he had fraudulently obtained in his demands of justice for alleged holocaust victims. Earl of Caithness: if government accept their responsibility for...

... controlling the money supply and change from our debt-based monetary system, then monetary system will break us Less than two months before Tony Blair comes to power in England, another interesting entry can be found in HANSARD, 5th March 1997, volume 578, No. 68, columns 1869-1871, in which the Earl of Caithness is recorded as having stated, "The next government must grasp the nettle, accept their...

... responsibility for controlling the money supply and change from our debt-based monetary system. My Lords, will they? If they do not, our monetary system will break us and the sorry legacy we are already leaving our children will be a disaster." A Jew, Michael Levy agreed to raise large sums of money for the Labour Party, so long as they never became, "anti-Israel," whilst Blair is leader Gideon Meir Ehud Barak...

... On May 2nd, the British Labour Party Leader, Tony Blair is elected as Prime Minister. Prior to his election, the man in charge of donations to Blair's, "private office," donations which reached the princely sum of seven million pounds, was none other than Blair's tennis partner, a Jew, Michael Levy. Furthermore, Levy agreed to raise large sums of money for the Labour Party, so long as they never...

.... Now they desire God, they desire paradise, they desire heaven, they desire Nirvana, enlightenment. But they go on desiring! And desire is the problem, not what you desire. The object is irrelevant. Desire can live with any object. It can live with money, it can live with power, prestige, respectability; it can live with God, it can live with enlightenment. Any object will do. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND...

..., Ramas, Krishnas. The West is very much puzzled why we have not been interested in history. We have been writing real history - because the real history consists of the evolution of human consciousness. The real history has nothing to do with money, the real history has nothing to do with power-politics. The real history has only to do with one thing: that is who comes in the world with light...

..., because sometimes the situa-tion may be such that your whole mind will interpret it in a wrong way. The king knows only money and money and money. He understands only one language - the language of money. Now, certainly, this man is cheating. He can see only some device: "The begging bowl is a trick. It cannot be filled and he will empty my whole treasure. And he has caught me - he has provoked me...

... and now he is cheating." "TO YOU," SAID THE DERVISH, "I AM EMPTYING YOUR TREASURY..." "... because you cannot see beyond that. Your eyes are focussed on money. You can only think of money. All is always translated by you in terms of money - as if money is all. Life is much more: money is nothing." "TO YOU I AM EMPTYING YOUR TREASURY," SAID THE DERVISH...

... substitutes in life too, so that our sleep in life itself is not disturbed. If you are to know God, your sleep will be disturbed; it will come to an end. And we have a great vested interest in our sleep, because for lives upon lives we have treasured and cultivated only sleep, that is our only creation. And up to this very day our family, wife, friends, children, money and prestige are all part of our...

... world. Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans, Sikhs, Jainas... we add these religious differences to our worldly turbulence - as if there is not already enough trouble, enough politics; as if there is not already enough warfare, we add religious warfare, we fight in the name of religion. As it is, there is more than enough competition - in the name of nations, for money, for prestige; but to these we add...

... essence of the life experience of such uneducated people. The statement is direct, the words present no difficulty: there is no shelter other than Rama; there is no other shade, no other refuge than Rama. Under what conditions does such an understanding dawn? We seek refuge and shelter in wealth. The language of the people all around me is that of money, they measure people by their money. How much you...

... much status, how big a position, how much power! You are what you have - this is our criterion. This criterion is utterly wrong. Because of this criterion, if someone asks us of our inner experience, "There is no other refuge but money" will be the essence of our answer. We even weigh the mystics in monetary terms. Had Mahavira been born in a poor family, Jainas were not going to recognize...

... of our calculations about renunciation. If one who possesses nothing says he has renounced, we will not accept his statement. We will say, "You had nothing, so what have you renounced?" Renunciation has no relation to what you had, it is an existential state of being. But how to measure that state? Money is our only standard measure, so renunciation is also measured by what one had. It is...

... curious that we measure renunciation and indulgence in the same monetary terms. Money is our measure. Money is our only refuge! As long as money is our refuge, Rama cannot be our refuge. From what state of mind will arise: "Rama is the only refuge"? This only arises when the illusion of money disappears, when one discovers that money is worthless and that nothing is gained through gaining any...

... possess only that which you can give. If you cannot give it, you simply believe that you possess. You don't possess it; you are not a master. If you cannot give your money, then you are not the master of it. Then the money is the master. If you can give it, then certainly you are the master. This will look like a paradox, but let me repeat it: you are the possessor only of that which you give. The...

... leave it, to renounce it. I have heard about two Buddhist bhikkhus. One of them was a miser and a hoarder and he wed to collect money and keep it, and the other used to laugh at this foolish attitude. Whatsoever will come on his way, he will use it, he will never hoard it. One night they came across a river. It was evening, the sun was setting, and it was dangerous to stay there. They had to go to the...

... other shore; there was a town. This side was simply wilderness. The hoarder said, "Now you don't have any money, so we cannot pay the ferryman. What do you say now about it? You are against hoarding; now if I don't have any money we both will die. You see the point?" He said, "Money is needed." The man who believed in renunciation laughed, but he didn't say anything. Then the...

... hoarder paid and they crossed the river; they reached the other shore. The hoarder again said, "Now remember, next time don't start arguing with me. You see? Money helps. Without money we would have been dead. The whole night on the other shore, it was dangerous to survive - wild animals." The other bhikkhu laughed and he said, "But we have come across the river because you could renounce...

... it. It is not because of hoarding that we have survived. If you had insisted on hoarding it and you were not going to pay the ferryman, we would have died. It is because you could renounce - because you could leave it, you could give it - that's why we have survived." The argument must be continuing still. But remember, I am not against money. I am all for it, but use it. Possess it, own it...

... real man is capable of accepting gifts and giving them. In India you will find many sannyasins, many so-called mahatmas, who will not touch money. If you give them any, they will shrink back, as if you have produced a snake or something poisonous. Their shrinking back shows that now they have moved to the other extreme: now they have become incapable of receiving. Again their throat center is half...

... a swanky restaurant when he announced to the manager, "My good man, I have really enjoyed your food, but unfortunately I cannot afford to pay for any of it at all. I have not a penny to my name. Now don't get angry. I am by profession a beggar, as you may see. I happen to be an extremely talented beggar too. I can go out and within one hour get the money I owe you for this meal. Naturally...