Art of Giving series

About Lessons

This page houses lessons given by my teacher to me. Some of the posts have my teacher more featured, including a paper he wrote for this series of posts; other posts are simply my attempts to gain clarity. They are available to anyone who wants to audit and participate.

The Lessons/Posts

Lesson 1: Giving

Lesson 2: Why Blogs Don’t Work

Lesson 3: Giving Back to the Source

Lesson 4: Questions on Giving

Lesson 5: Hurting the Giver

Lesson 6: Giving and its Principles

Lesson 7: Upstream Clarity

Lesson 8: Incoming Value

Lesson 9: Lessons on Giving Back to the Source

Lesson 10: Reverence

The Art of Giving Series

The Art of Giving series begins to discuss the principles constituting the Art of Giving: Respect, Appreciation, Gratitude and Value. They also discuss the importance of processing the principles in the correct order, giving back to the source, static versus dynamic giving and superconductive giving. One of the essential points my teacher makes is that we need to give in a manner the supports the source. Without an understanding of this we don’t have the tools to center ourselves deeper and deeper in awareness. I am learning about this.

You may find, I as do, that Sensei’s teaching has a certain flow to it that makes it very easy and natural to read and follow. Do not be lulled into complacency by this; there is a depth occurring that can be quite difficult to understand. This one lesson (Giving and its Principles) has years of study available in it. His article lays some groundwork, but it is important to note that any area of his lesson could be opened up into a comprehensive course of study.

This series began with a series of posts, that culminated in some questions asked in the post, Questions on Giving . If you are new to the discussion, it would be much better to open up that link and first read the three posts that preceded it beginning with Giving.

The post Giving and its Principles includes a paper from my teacher, titled the same. It can be accessed by clicking on the (more…) link under the post introduction. His paper is not my notes, but rather his direct teachings.

The comment section that follows Giving and its Principles is continuously open, and provides you with a forum to comment in, or perhaps to test your understandings and practice. I’ll do my best to give you feedback, and if something gets over my head, I’ll ask my teacher for help. The comment area also give you a good place to pose a thoughtful question or two. Feel free to write at length.

Bearing in mind that in the context of this series Sensei is the teacher and I am the student, you will see future posts emerging as I study and work to deepen and improve my own understandings and applications. Hopefully you will find some value in that.

Sensei teaches, and I have long embraced, the concept of finding ways to apply our understandings in our everyday life applications. Mental understandings won’t cut it - not one of us will not ‘get it’ through intellectual study and research alone. We need to stretch to continually find ways to cross relate our lessons, and we need to experience the deeper experience itself. Experience has a subsection called “being immersed in the deeper experience itself, ” and a teacher is always needed as a guide to bring us to these normally out-of-reach inner places and life changing experiences.

So, find ways to practice. Try not to make the mistake I made for so many years (and still do) of trying to ‘get it’ by reading or attending lectures, or trying to ‘give it’ by only writing about it. We have to learn how to so embrace the Art of Giving and the way of inner Harmony so completely that we live and breathe it, 24/7 - we become it, and we live only to give it.

You are very welcome to join in at any juncture.

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