A merchant wanted to gift a monk a really expensive branded watch. He brought the monk to his bank's safe deposit box for the monk to choose a watch. The merchant owned a total of 2 large safe deposit boxes where he kept all his expensive jewelries. Once the safe deposit boxes were open and the monk saw what was inside he exclaimed that it was less than he had expected. The merchant was a little shocked at the remarked, he asked him why ? The monk asked him how often has he worn any of the jewelries there ? The merchant replied, only very rarely, he was afraid that he would be robbed. The monk then said, in that case then I am the richest person in the world. All the jewelry that exists in the shops all belonged to him. The merchant looked at him a little puzzled. The monk that explained, if you kept all your jewelry in the safe deposit boxes, and only used them occasionally, then how different is that from me going to the jewelry shops to look at the jewelries like I was going to buy something there ? Its the same thing. I go there, hold the jewelry a little, wear it for a while and check myself out in the mirror while wearing it, then return it to the display case. Even though I do not own it, I still get the same experience you get when you come to the safe deposit box to check your expensive jewelry out very occasionally. So by that line of thinking, I own all the jewelries in all the shops that are in existent.
The moral of the story here is, if you own something and only use it very rarely, then its as good as not owning it at all. If you have it use it.
