(9) One needs to learn to acquire the capacity for relinquishment (or forsaking) and should strive to become so generous as to relinquish whatever you can afford to give it up. Practically speaking, to embrace Buddhism is to acquire the capacity for relinquishment. It goes without saying that when I urge you to learn to acquire the capacity for relinquishment, I do not at all mean that you have to peel away all that are yours until you either are nude and have to go begging food from others, or have to compel your wife and children to experience starvation. And here what I would hasten to add is this: “If an individual is adamant in fostering his capacity for relinquishment, he is bound to attain Buddhahood. Fully eligible for accepting charity would be those who are adamant in willingly giving away whatever they are entitled to own. In fact “relinquishment” is an appropriate word to epitomize Buddhism. That is why we, Buddhists, willingly acquiesce in accepting charity, offering, and sustaining from “the fourfold assembly”.（From My Heart My Buddha）