We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth

Wealth is a means to an end: economic security. Put another way, wealth is the absence of economic anxiety. Freed of the pressure to earn, we can choose how we live.

WANG P’ANG says, “The natural endowment of all beings is complete in itself. Poverty does not reduce it. Wealth does not enlarge it. But fools abandon this treasure to chase trash. Those who know contentment pay the world no heed. This is true wealth. Mencius said, ‘The ten thousand things are all within us’ (Mencius: 7A.4). How could we not be wea

she also now understood there were things more important than wealth, acclaim and fame. And that many financially rich people are actually desperately poor. “Nothing’s as valuable as my happiness. Nothing’s as priceless as my peace of mind,” the businesswoman thought. She’d found love. She was still in excellent health. She had so many things to be

I began this book with a poem to demonstrate that becoming rich has given me the most precious thing in life. And just what is the most precious thing in life that riches can supply? Easy. For me, it’s Time. Time. Time to read and write poetry if I want to. Or to write a book if it takes my fancy. Time to travel on the slightest whim, to walk in th

Society has us believing that wealth is an absolute perfected by material possessions and reckless consumption. In fact, I’ve had to tailor the “hook” of this book to society’s definition of wealth’s