Nipun,
This post was very timely for me. In my own experiment with gift-economy, I'm learning that in order for it to truly work [cuz it only kinda works at the moment], I have to be constantly giving. This is where I falter. The habit of taking, or expecting still comes up. I catch myself drawing lines, demarcating some things as service-worthy & other work as unnecessary instead of taking each situation as an opportunity to serve. Underlying it all, two realities emerge clearly: I'm not yet at a point of wanting nothing and it truly is external meditation to hold attention firmly to the desire to serve.
Something that would be helpful for me, and probably others, to hear stories about the journey of how you process or processed the impulse of wanting. Do you just watch that arise & pass, do you do the opposite, or something else entirely?
On Jul 5, 2008 rahul wrote: