Part 6: On consideration, kindness, and thoughtfulness

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One may slash at it and slash at it, and one may shake the sand from its roots for ever, but nothing affects the eéran grass like being abandoned.

“This thing is not plentiful; I cannot give you some of it”: the person is a miser.

“This thing that you have given me is not plentiful”: that statement indicates a greedy person.

He-will-not-bring-what-he-has will not have what one has.

“We have nothing, we have nothing!” Yet their children always have full stomachs.

“There is not much of it” is what turns one into a miser.