Teaching the Dharma — The Spiritual Genius Rejects Stinginess

The spiritual genius walks through the worlds with an ease born of inner abundance.
He has long since discovered that life, body, fortune, and all the ornaments of existence—though difficult to acquire—are as perishable as mist.
Because he sees their nature clearly, he can release them without hesitation to those who suffer, giving strength, time, protection, even his very life as one might give a passing traveler a drink of water.
This generosity is not a performance; it is the natural overflow of a mind no longer chained by fear or possession.

And if such a being can relinquish even his own life with calm abandon,
what need is there to question whether he will share the Dharma?
The Dharma is the one treasure not wrung from toil,
the one wealth that cannot diminish,
the one fire that grows only brighter the more hands it warms.
It is an inexhaustible inheritance, increasing precisely in the act of being given.

Thus the spiritual genius does not measure his words,
does not hide the medicine when he sees a wound,
does not look upon suffering and walk away with silence in his throat.
Where confusion veils a mind, he speaks.
Where sorrow has hardened a heart, he speaks.
Where a soul is drowning in its own impulses, he speaks.
Not for praise, not for authority, but because to withhold a liberating truth
would be an act of cruelty deeper than any visible harm.

The Dharma is to him what breathing is to the body:
effortless, necessary, and constant.
To offer it is not a task—
it is simply the movement of wisdom expressing itself through compassion.

And in this fearless generosity he reveals the secret known only to the truly awakened:
that real wealth is measured not by what one clings to,
but by what one can give without end.