"There are some
who charitably bestow wealth, gold, silver, gold money, pearls, jewels, conch
shells, stones, coral, male and female slaves, horses, and sheep." This is one of the Bodhisattvas practices, dana prajna paramita. The slaves are
also a kind of fortune or wealth. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC