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- As Days & Nights Fly Past, Fly Past… But even if you’re pulling more, why let your generosity be measured by other people’s generosity? If you have a little extra energy, there are lots of little things we can do to help one another. It creates a better atmosphere in the community if you see generosity not as an imposition, but as an opportunity. The fact that something is not …
- Up for the Challenge… It also involves generosity and virtue. Here again, you have to learn how to talk to yourself so that you get a sense of well-being, a sense of pride that comes out of generosity, a sense of pride that comes out of practicing the precepts—pride not in comparing yourself with other people, but just in having an inner sense of self-worth …
- Barriers in the Heart… your selfishness, your tendency to say, “I can only give this much, and the rest I want to hold back.” The Thais have a phrase for the quality that comes from generosity. It can literally be translated as “heart water” or “heart juice.” Naam jai. That’s what generosity does. It moistens a heart that’s been dry, so that it starts to grow …
- Timeless Practice… He’d start with the topic of generosity, pointing out the goodness that comes from being generous, the happiness that comes from being generous. He’s talking specifically about the generosity that comes voluntarily. A king once came to see the Buddha and asked him where a gift should be given. The Buddha replied, “Give where you feel inspired, where you feel it would …
- The Stairway Up… As for generosity, sometimes people look at what they’ve got and they’d like to be able to give much more. They’d like to make a more impressive offering, but their means are limited. So they have to content themselves with giving limited gifts to begin with, but the momentum builds on that. Sometimes the little gifts bring the greatest reward. Ajaan …
- A Trustworthy Mind… conviction, generosity, virtue, and discernment. Try to bring those qualities into your mind as well. Conviction here means conviction in the Buddha’s awakening, which in our lives translates into conviction in the importance of our actions, believing that human action can lead to a true happiness, that your intentions really do shape what you do. You’re not acting under the force of …
- Only One Person… You want be a generator of virtue, you want to be a generator of generosity, a generator of concentration and wisdom. That’s how these things come out into the world. You’ve got the source right here. So grant yourself that dignity: that you’re going to create a good source in every possible opportunity. Now, generosity has its limitations. You can have …
- Take Heart… You think about your generosity, the things you’ve freely given in the past. You think about your virtue, the times when you could have behaved in unskillful ways but you chose not to, even though there may have been a sacrifice involved. But you managed to do it. The Buddha says you can think about the qualities that make people devas. Okay, you …
- Food Insecurity… The only cure for that is to develop some confidence in the path, that the practice of generosity, the practice of virtue, the practice of meditation will feed you better. So look into these practices. To what extent are you not yet fully confident in them? What can you do to develop more confidence? Turn your thinking in this direction. The Buddha talks about …
- The Dhamma Without Price… After all, the Buddha says that to be an object of someone else’s generosity, the ideal object of generosity either is free of passion, aversion, and delusion, or is practicing for the sake of freeing him- or herself from passion, aversion, and delusion. This is how you keep the Sangha alive. You make that your goal. Passion arises: What can you do to …
- You Can’t Clone Awakening… Right view starts out with belief in the principle of action, that actions really do give results, that there is a value to generosity, there is a value to gratitude. If actions didn’t give results, generosity and gratitude would be meaningless. Or if our actions were totally under the influence of some outside power, totally determined by what’s happened in the past …
- Admirable Intentions… It starts with generosity, virtue, and developing good qualities in the mind. Of course, with generosity and virtue, you’re already developing good qualities. You’re thinking of other people: You realize that your happiness is not the sort of thing that you can develop just on your own without thinking about other people’s happiness. The same goes with virtue: If your happiness …
- Gratitude, Goodwill & Generosity… it focuses first on the power of your good actions:, that there is a special value to generosity. There’s a special gratitude you owe to your parents. Gratitude is considered the beginning of all skillful qualities. Generosity is considered the basis for all the practice. These qualities get you started with right attitude. So when you find your mind feeling ungenerous or ungrateful …
- Nurturing Patient Endurance… And generosity: That, too, grows out of conviction. As the Buddha said, you’re convinced that something good will come from your generosity; it’s not a waste. It develops a good environment outside, and it develops a good environment inside the mind. Then there’s learning: How much do you know of the Buddha’s teachings? We like to think of the forest …
- Chew Your Food Well… And it’s interesting to note that when the Buddha talks about kamma, the first two things he focuses on are gratitude and generosity. If you don’t see the virtue, the value of gratitude, if you don’t see the value of generosity, it’s hard to do anything else on the path. You have to appreciate the good that other people have …
- Remembering Luang Lung… So it’s good to think about the generosity of people in the past and about how we can continue that principle of generosity now. We’re living in a difficult time. A lot of people are under a lot of strain with the curfews, with the isolation, with the fear of the disease. And one way of being easy on ourselves and easy …
- Grace & Dignity… We do still have the opportunity to develop virtue, develop generosity, to develop the mind through the meditation. We have the time, the location, and the environment that’s conducive for that, so it’s good to appreciate that. The fact that we’re here depends on the generosity of many, many people. So we feel gratitude for that, and then we decide how …
- A Sense of Yourself… As Luang Pu Dune once said, “The path is one thing clear through.” It starts with generosity and ends with generosity. In other words, you’re giving up things, but you’re giving up things in a way that’s actually helpful to yourself and the people around you. You don’t just throw things away. You think about, “What do I have that …
- Investing in Noble Wealth… Then there’s learning and generosity. “Learning” here means spending time in listening to the words of the Buddha, the words of the noble disciples. Their values go at cross-purposes with a lot of values of the world that we’re so thoroughly indoctrinated with—commercial jingles and the messages that come from the mass media—that those values seem normal. But they …
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