Real Giving
Every year, about two days before Christmas, I experience something I am not particularly proud of.
Thinking about the gifts I've bought for my wife and kids, I get the feeling that I don't have enough for them. This feeling has almost nothing to do with how many gifts I've bought or how "good" the gifts are. Beyond the quantity and quality of my offerings is the sense that my efforts to express my love for them is lame and doesn't really measure up to how I feel -- and that, somehow, they will be disappointed.
Indeed, there have been some "nights before Christmas" where I've left the cozy warmth of my home to return to the mall, looking for the perfect gift. Ouch! It's humbling to witness this behavior in me. And it's humbling to admit it. But it's also healing.
As a student of Maharaji's, I realize that practicing Knowledge is not about fixing one's flaws or patching up quirks of personality. Nevertheless, practicing Knowledge does provide the kind of perspective that makes it much easier to realize that if I'm feeling enough, then what I have to give others will be enough.
The deep love we feel for others begs to be expressed and yet the mind will never be satisfied with the form of its expression. No poem, no song, no diamond, no ipod, no trip around the world will ever be enough.
In the end, the only thing we really have to give -- is ourselves. And that is plenty.
Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at December 22, 2009 07:26 AM
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Dearest Mitch
Thank you for sharing the Gift of you with us.
I recently began recording with my son after a hiatus of 20 years. Why, because i have begun to feel what i am singing about. Not merely singing words but actually feeling them in my Heart.
On Christmas day my son presented me with 2 albums of the music we have recorded. Both of them sent me into rapture.
Both albums were recorded on a simple 4 track. Both album covers are filled with beautiful pictures from my life.
In this Life it is the simple gifts that often bring the most pleasure.
The Gift that i received this Christmas is that of my family rejoicing together and playing together in spontaneity in the moment.- Priceless
The Gift of Knowledge that our beloved Master gave us freely is the practical way to experience the joy of simple BEING as opposed to becoming.
Knowledge makes each song and poem that i write a priceless expression of my Devotion to Life, and the exciting possibility that it provides to experience time as sublime.
Happy every moment.Unconditional Love Noel.
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at December 30, 2008 02:42 PM
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