Giving Dana🏵️💮🌸
"Giving-Dana" is an essential Buddhist
practice. It is about generosity, openness, and our capacity to embrace others
with compassion and love. When we truly see ourselves as others and others as
ourselves, we naturally want to do everything we can to secure their happiness
and well-being, because we know that it is also our own well-being and
happiness. We exist in interbeing with all of life. When we understand this
fundamental truth, our acts of giving will be made in the spirit of
nondiscrimination. The merit, the spiritual benefit to be gained from the
practice of giving cannot be calculated. Helping to create a meditation hall is
an offering for everyone, for the continuation of the Dharma. The practice of
dana brings a lot of happiness when we know how to do it in the spirit of
wisdom, with the understanding of interbeing.
We don’t have to give $100,000 or even $10; instead we
can offer a smile or a loving, compassionate gaze. We can give the gift of our
calm, concentrated presence to help someone who is fearful or anxious. We can
make an offering of our time and energy and work with the homeless, or with
those who are prisoners or are addicted to different substances, or to work on
helping the environment. We have plenty of gifts to offer; we are far wealthier
than we may imagine. We can help secure the happiness of many people even if we
don’t have a single penny in our pocket. When we are motivated by the desire to
give, even if we have not yet offered anything yet, just the intention to offer
our help and understanding, our willingness to listen and communicate, begins
to lessen our own and others’ suffering. So, let's practice the generosity in
order to gain true peace and happiness within us."
"May all sentient beings have happiness and its
causes....
May all sentient beings be free from dangers and suffering and its causes....
May all sentient beings not be separated from sorrowless
bliss....
May all sentient beings abide in equanimity free of
bias..
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