If you have something, and it is truly yours, you can offer it to others without hesitation, like the river giving its water.

But if you cannot give it, if you hold it tightly, then it does not belong to you.

Instead, you belong to it.

What you grasp tightly weighs you down.

The one who possesses without attachment is the one who finds peace.

In giving, you lose nothing.

In holding, you lose yourself.