Gold can’t buy the peace found on this mountain
Winter mornings, snow-covered ancient cedars
Icy waterfalls cracking and tinkling at dawn
Leaves fall, far-off mountain peaks appear
The beauty here can’t be bought and sold
Like clouds overhead
Time, gold, arguments about right and wrong
Pass without meaning.  
      - Stonehouse (Ch’ing-kung, 1272-1352).

In the fourth-century a Buddhist monk, Chih Tun, offered to buy a mountain from the hermit who lived there, and became the subject of ridicule. (The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Red Pine and A New Account of Tales of the World by Shih-shuo Hsin-yu).

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