Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.

The saying links generosity with a kind of “immortality” grounded not in the body but in influence. By sharing what one knows—skills, insights, ethical teachings—one helps others act more wisely, and those effects can outlast the individual life. The idea resonates with Buddhist emphases on compassion and the reduction of self-clinging: knowledge is not hoarded as personal property but offered for the benefit of sentient beings. “Immortality” here is best read metaphorically, as continuity through transmission, memory, and the ongoing consequences of one’s guidance rather than a literal promise of eternal personal existence.