Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.
If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.
We preceive that God is in all of those we give to.
Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.
Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.
Everyone is part of you.
When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.
What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.
Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.
If you just keep giving constantly, if you don't really take thought of your own welfare and your own awareness, but just give, beyond exhaustion - then your life will always be a constant progression.
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.
Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.
We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves.
We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.
You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.
Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.
The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.
If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.
When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the fastest way to pull yourself out of a negative state.
You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.
One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.
