In Japanese, to be a monk means to harmonize.
Wealthy people are always afraid that someone is going to ask them for something. It's a psychological phenomenon. On the other hand, it will certainly be a pleasant surprise for them if somebody gives them something.
...Then there was a Zen master who did the accounts for a house of geishas. The geishas became nuns (there may have been a few nuns who became geishas, too, but the story doesn't say).
...It's not worth thinking about, analyzing. Only here and now is important. When you have to die you have to die, and in that moment life ends.
The more egotistical people are, the more they are attached to life and the more they think about death.
