Thursday, November 29, 2018

PRACTICE A GENEROSITY OF SPIRIT

Per the Dalai Lama, In fact, taking care of others, helping others, ultimately is the way to discover your own joy and to have a happy life. That's not all, to practice a generosity of spirit is the way to peace.

I believe that...more precisely, I accept it for truth because, who's kidding whom, it was said by the Dalai Lama when he was meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Even if I doubted it, I wouldn't admit it. 

My pleasant surprise is that I want to believe it. I want it to be true. I just doubt my ability to do it. 

Ah-ha! There it is...I self-doubt often upon reading or hearing of a spiritually beautiful practice that requires me not to think but to do. Even when I am doing...imperfectly, but unconsciously trying. Maybe especially then.

Now there's a comfort. Imagine that...that is comforting to me. It suggests (or I choose to believe) that is my human condition. I usually do self-doubt first, but grace and gratitude scoots right out there, cutting ego off...usually with a laugh. Nothing damps down ego like laughter. Wrapped in love.

That is not ours to do...that is ours to accept: The Father doeth the work. Ah. we've come full circle.

Thank you.

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