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Hi, I'm Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday Morning.
So I don't know about you.
When I think back to school, there were lots of things that we learned.
Some of them, very helpful, very useful.
I refer to them often. Most things.
Not so much. But anyway, when I look back now and I think of the things that are coming onto the school curriculum, now I see our own children learning in schools and generosity and kindness and awareness and compassion, things that I really did to my heart.
There's one in particular in generosity that I've been thinking about as I've been discussing it with my son.
We've been talking about what it means to actually practice generosity and whether you actually need any resources in particular to practice it or whether it's something that we can do in our mind even when there aren't opportunities to actually physically be generous in some way.
I was reminded of my time in the monastery where really that practice is encouraged in just about every single part of the day.
In fact, I think it is every single part of the day.
And I was reminded in particular of mealtimes where we would sit down and I know it's quite popular in some cultures and some nations that'll leave a spare seat at the table.
The idea being that if anybody should pass by a stranger should pass by the house, presumably accustomed from from another time, but there would always be a seat.
Welcome there for them.
I loved that as an idea and it's such a nice thing to do.
In the monastery went a step further, there was a small plate in the middle of the table.
I know the start of every meal.
You know when you look at your plate, does the good bits and the less good bits, does the bits for whatever reason?
It's different for every person.
Maybe it's the like the really crispy bit of cheese or the the crust on top of a pie or something like that, but there's the bit that you look at that you think, I really want to start with that bit or I'm going to leave that bit to last because it's the best.
Anyway, we'd look at our plate and you'd see the nicest kind of part of it and you would take that off the plate and you put it on the plate in the middle and you do it with the idea that you're sort of giving away to anyone, anything in the world that might be hungry.
It's easy to look at that and kind of go that that's not making any difference.
That's not real generosity.
But in the mind, the training that is taking place is really important because it's not just about what we're doing on the outside.
It's how the mind, the heart is operating on the inside as well.
Anyway, at the end of the meal, that food would be taken outside.
We lived in the countryside if you sprinkled around the local animals would eat it and you know everything was everything was good in the world.
But in every single part of the day, even when it came down to sort of shaving our heads and every single moment was another opportunity to practice giving in the mind.
I think it's really easy to get fixated on generosity being action based and that's really important that we still do those things.
I'm not suggesting for a moment that it's not.
But we don't always have the opportunity to do that.
But we always have the opportunity to practice in our mind, a sense of generosity.
So whether it's something that you feel really attached to and you want to hold on to, in those moments it can be really helpful.
Just to sort of offer it up to offer it out into the world.
That doesn't have to be a conversation around it.
Like does that make sense?
Who's benefiting? Is this generosity?
It doesn't really matter.
There's just a sense of kind of giving it away because we are very attached to it and it's important.
Letting go of that attachment we discover a greater sense of generosity and it's then more likely to find its way into our everyday life.
So as much as possible looking for those opportunities in life where you can let go of those things you've been holding on to and in letting go finding that sense of generosity understanding that everything is temporary, everything is shared and that ultimately we don't really own anything at all.
So it's no hardship to give it away.
In fact there's pleasure in sharing that whether it's in the world or in our mind.
Thanks for listening today.
I'll look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.
