What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.
When you do something “selflish” you’ll feel constricted and restricted. You won’t be happy.
Those who pursue a worldy life – who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness – are miserable.
Feeling “comfortable” is the short path to annihilation.
If your life is based around your being comfortable, you’re not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit – becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of “self” that stained our awareness.
We preceive that God is in all of those we give to.
Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.
Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal – both of which ultimatly can be attachments.
Everyone is part of you.
When you do something for someone else, it’s for you. When you do something for yourself, it’s for someone else.
What motivates someone who’s become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand – then you understand the root and cause of all existence.
Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma – until all attain perfection.
Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.
If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want – God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up – it’s simply having a good time.
The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.
Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.