It is said that, “the richer people get, the more miserly they are,” and this saying is often true. Avarice makes you unhappy. It exposes you to rebirth in the florin of tortured spirits. Rather than store useless riches, use them in a constructive way. Be generous toward those in need, build stupas, and make offerings to the Three Jewels. The more generous you are, the more you will prosper. Generosity should always be exercised impartially toward all – the poor, the sick, the aged, the traveler from afar – without discrimination between friend and stranger, between those on whom we count and those from whom we can expect nothing. In giving, be free of ostentation, of favoritism, and of any expectation of reward

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Further quotes from the book The Hundred Verses of Advice:

• Right here beside you
• Like the events in a dream
• You will have to go
• Don’t go on following the past
• The faults within
• When you reach the threshold of death
• The choice is clear
• Have you prepared yourselves a boat
• Putting down the heavy burden once and for all
• The freedom to practice the Dharma
• Abandon negative friendships
• Free of being caught by anything at all
• Three essential points
• Being near a spiritual teacher
• Flying off into the bardo
• Happiness and suffering
• Rather than being trapped by your perceptions
• Contemplating the defects of samsara
• Dwell in the simplicity of the present moment
• Nothing to be gained or lost