The Pinch of Generosity
| April 5, 2014
When you are practicing generosity, you
should feel a little pinch when you give something away. That pinch is
your stinginess protesting. If you give away your old, worn-out coat
that you wouldn’t be caught dead wearing, that is not generosity. There
is no pinch. You are doing nothing to overcome your stinginess; you’re
just cleaning out your closet and calling it something else. Giving away
your coat might keep someone warm, but it does not address the problem
we face as spiritual practitioners: to free ourselves from
self-cherishing and self-grasping.
—Gelek Rinpoche, “Generosity (and Greed) Introduction”
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