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New year, new noticings. One day-gratitude, one day-grace. Today-generosity. It’s all around you, but is it inside?
If this is really the basis from which we find internal peace, it seems a worthwhile one to chew on for a spell.
…this ability to cease holding or grasping. This opening of heart that then creates space. From this openness there is enough space for everyone, for everything to come and go as they (it) need to. Holding on too tight restricts this capacity for space, because there’s no room for light to shine in, no room for new people to enter, no possibility for new additions.
Sharon Salzberg’s article on generosity in the Shambala Sun discusses many aspects of generosity, that we can develop generosity through practice, practice, practice. And with this capacity for generosity,
“The benefits of generosity have the power to change us. If we cultivate generosity, the mind will stop sticking to things. It’s as if we’ve made a tight fist that is slowly opening, and we experience the relief of that. When the mind becomes suffused with the feeling of generosity, it moves out of rigid confinement into a less bounded space. Our world opens up because we can let go.” (Sharon Salzberg)
