Quality
It’s all too easy to forget our connection to the natural world when we live surrounded by technology and the artificial constructions of our amazing modern life. Nature has a way of reminding us, whenever feel real soil under our feet.
We give one seed to soil, it gives us back in multiple. As she receives in gratitude she can give in multiples. She can share. She is humble and compassionate.
For us:
Gratitude is Joy and Obligation is responsibility, burden.
When we do something for our loved ones or friends, we start expecting that this act of ours should be duly acknowledged, otherwise we feel frustrated. Something done as obligation makes us serious and causes frustration when it is not responded to. Something done with gratitude in our heart makes us lighthearted and playful, and brings joy to us.
Be grateful to everyone, because everybody is creating a space for you to be transformed – even those who think they are obstructing you, even those whom you think are enemies. Your friends, your enemies, good people and bad people, favorable circumstances, unfavorable circumstances – all together they are creating the context in which you can be transformed and become a buddha. Be grateful to all. To those who have helped, to those who have hindered, to those who have been indifferent. Be grateful to all, because all together they are creating the context in which buddhas are born, in which you can become a buddha.
So grow more and more in gratitude and thankfulness — not only towards me; let it become your very style. Be grateful to everybody.
If one understands gratitude then one is grateful for things that have been done positively. And one even feels grateful for things which could have been done negatively. You feel grateful that somebody helped you; this is just the beginning. Then you start feeling grateful that somebody has not harmed you — he could have; it was so kind of him.
Once you understand the feeling of gratitude and allow it to sink deeply within you, you will start feeling grateful for everything. And the more grateful you are, the less complaining, grumbling.
Once complaining disappears, misery disappears. It exists with complaints. It is hooked with complaints and with the complaining mind. Misery is impossible with gratefulness.
A real love has nothing to suggest to God except a deep gratitude, thankfulness. It simply accepts whatsoever God is pouring. Love is receiving the gift.
Quality of Soil: Receive In Gratitude
