A Meditation On The Generosity Of Practice

In Buddhism, generosity is the first of the six perfections or paramitas of heart and mind. There are three types: giving material support, offering the teachings of mindfulness, and offering safety. Today let’s explore offering the teachings and see what arises. This will be a short practice to just pause and notice what the teachings have to offer each of us.

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Finding a comfortable posture that's also upright,

Whatever your posture is,

The posture that best supports you.

Locating the breath or whatever your anchor is,

The object to which you would like to direct or upon which you would like to rest your attention.

And doing that,

Resting the attention on the breath,

Maybe the body,

Maybe the sounds in the environment.

And as you settle in or with whatever amount of settledness you have today,

See if you can locate in your own body that place of generosity,

Of open-heartedness.

And wanting to help.

Tapping into that goodness,

The way the perfection of generosity is already alive in you.

And have the practice itself.

It creates a kind of connection or opens to an understanding of a kind of connection.

A kind of not separateness.

And if that's true for you,

Just exploring how that feels.

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