Giving a hand to get something in return, name, fame and the like is ego-climbing.Giving a hand expecting nothing in return is selfless climbing. When we do such actions in our everyday for people we know or do not know is a spiritual way of living. I experience such simple acts of selfless and kindness everyday which makes my day. Such actions do not have to be big or heroic. Such actions are holy actions. I see such actions in the school where I teach, in Trader Joes where I shop, and places I am not familiar.They are not pre planed and pre meditated. They are natural and spontaneous. These acts come from the heart, not the calculating mind. The more we get "schooled", the more we lose the natural ways of living.
Jagdish P Dave
On May 3, 2013 Jagdish P Dave wrote :
Giving a hand to get something in return, name, fame and the like is ego-climbing.Giving a hand expecting nothing in return is selfless climbing. When we do such actions in our everyday for people we know or do not know is a spiritual way of living. I experience such simple acts of selfless and kindness everyday which makes my day. Such actions do not have to be big or heroic. Such actions are holy actions. I see such actions in the school where I teach, in Trader Joes where I shop, and places I am not familiar.They are not pre planed and pre meditated. They are natural and spontaneous. These acts come from the heart, not the calculating mind. The more we get "schooled", the more we lose the natural ways of living.
Jagdish P Dave