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**retyopj** · 04-08-2010, 05:17 AM

How does this fit in with wealth and possessions owned by monasteries and temples in the form of many valuable statues, artifacts and so on ?

I think this has more to do not with the possession in itself, but how do we relate to the act of possesing.

In the dojo where I practice zazen we only have a statue of the budhha, nothing more than that. And I realy enjoy that kind of austerity.

04-08-2010, 05:17 AM	#7
retyopj Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 477 Senior Member	How does this fit in with wealth and possessions owned by monasteries and temples in the form of many valuable statues, artifacts and so on ? I think this has more to do not with the possession in itself, but how do we relate to the act of possesing. In the dojo where I practice zazen we only have a statue of the budhha, nothing more than that. And I realy enjoy that kind of austerity.
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