[retyopj]

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.