Giving Notes - (6013)

Intro

Here are some notes about giving. They are discoveries and may they be of some help.

Notes

To develop giving, the right conditions for it, really help. The basic element that must be present in those conditions is that there are or there is someone that is less fortunate in whatever sense.

In short, go where there is little. Where there is poverty of some kind...

There is poverty of many kinds...Not only physical, there is internal poverty and there is poverty of time and poverty of values and poverty of knowledge and skills.

To develop giving we must have something to give others. What we have within to give shows us where to go and what to give.

In wanting to give we develop ourselves. Because once 'we have something' we can give.

The easiest kind of giving has to do with money...

We can always make more money but we can not make more time or health in some cases. It is also not easy to make values. This takes hard work and time.

We can't judge before giving, if we do, the impulse to give disappears. The worst enemy of giving is judging. Judging stops giving immediately! 

Judgements in relation to giving are interestingly mostly questions. Such as: "do they deserve it?", "why don't they work?", "what are they going to do with it?", "what a nerve to ask?", "why can't they get their act together?". etc. etc.

Giving can be mechanical after overcoming the initial resistance. After that, what is most important and what matters most is the way in which we give and the internal quality at the moment in which we give. 

We are only going to give up our comforts. That is all that we are required to give. That is where the whole disparity lies. 

The attachment of a rich few to their comforts deprives so many of the basic necessities. For there to be more equality it would basically mean for the rich to give up a fraction of their comforts. They don't have to, it is only the quality of giving that can and in the end is able to bring equality.

To purify giving, give with no thought to what is to come back.

Giving is the way to open heartedness. Without an open heart it is so difficult to embrace new circumstances, people, cultures and our life's difficulties.

Giving virtues in difficult situations allows us to leave the difficulty.

Giving shows the way out of conflict.

We should not taunt others who have les with empty promises of giving, just because we have the means to give, but are deciding not to. Fooling ourselves that we can actually five.

We can bank on the law of reciprocity. To receive abundantly we need to give abundantly this is the law. This is where our faith and trust goes.

To give dissolves much of our distrust. When we don't want to give we are stuck in a state of suspicion and distrust.

To truly trust the law of reciprocity remove the general distrust implied in not giving.

When the genuinely poor ask for help they are NOT deceiving us. Deep down we feel that they may be tricking us or they can do without help. We would never admit that.

If we give and we are deceived we will still receive back. We are not going to receive the karmic debt for deceiving someone. The deceiver will receive it.

Where would we be if others before us did not give?

The masters and the Universe give the most. Nature gives but also takes, She must fulfill the law of retribution, as in Tarot Card number 10. She gives us our body but takes it back into her system, through the ground or through the air. In both cases it is fire that returns the original energy back to Her. The fire of the furnace or the fire of the worm's stomach.

In many cases the masters gave their lives... They showed us to give by their example and that with their giving of their live they showed in action that our distrust of giving and our small concerns are nothing...  

There is a real joy in giving. This we can introduce ourselves to and bit by bit learn to enjoy.

There is little reasoning to give. It is something simple from our heart.

It is true some cultures have giving as a part of their ways, while other cultures are very 'tight'.

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