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Giving is a giving has three kinds the way the Chinese explain it is you give wealth as one option wealth meaning your money whatever material things including your own labor that's called giving of wealth number two giving of the Dharma meaning you speak the Dharma for others and finally the living of fearlessness okay it's a lot more than I can explain to you in 1 hour 2 hours for these three things so I only I only explain to explain to you the gist of it and give you quick summary what I try to do explain to you things that you will not find in the
Books so I summarize for you because you can read a lot of things in Chinese in French in English in Vietnamese Korean whatever you can find plenty of materials on those but basically the parameter giving is meant for you as a way of practice it's not meant for you as discussion or as knowledge for discussion for debate for intellectual Pursuits it's about when the Buddha taught us about the six parameters is meant for us to know what they are and how to use them in our daily lives so the first thing all myana disciples and students of the way are taught is giving Which is
Quite admittedly unusual for westerners because westerners are not used to giving westerners are used to what buying yes you go to somewhere and you give money and exchange for something else there no such a thing as giving giving is you look at it as Charity as philanthropy which is quite different from Buddhism it's only a small form of giving so giving the way that the Chinese explain to themselves are the three things the weal giving the wealth giving of the Dharma giving of the fearlessness and my Master in particular as true to most Chinese Teachers he's they all stress they have to give Dharma foremost
Of giving is giving the Dharma so to the Chinese you learn on the Chinese the Vietnamese and so on the traditional teaching is said when you practice giving you foremost you give of the Dharma meaning that you speak D for others okay you go home you grab your husband's children say you know honey I—I learned something wonderful today let me tell you I'm going give you Dharma because that's the foremost giving practice no don't do that it's not meant for you to explain Dharma the husband to your husband until he asks for it if he doesn't ask for it for God's sake do not
Say anything okay so the Chinese that's how I learned it when original I came and everyone said I'm going to I'm going to speak Dharma to you and these people just read it and they immediately rush and find someone let me give you you know the Dharma I practice giving Dharma to you because it generates the most kind of blessing the highest level blessing for me I find it disgusting and that that's that's all people talk about and say I—I need I need to learn how to to to give the Dharma and that's why when I explain to you this giving of ARA which
Is fundamental this is a starting point westeners don't like it tough luck but giving is those three things are called true giving and you practice true giving in that when you do true giving you give all three you don't just say let me practice giving so that I can maximize my blessings that's not good enough for us westerners I—I always had a conflict with that even when I listen to my Master Chinese Master's teaching I said something is off why would the Buddha teach us about three kinds of giving and everyone only rushes to practice one kind of giving only that doesn't make sense
Shak muda Buddha taught about three kinds of giving three types of giving in order to tell you they're equally important no differently then you need to have balance in your life you cannot say that I'm going to only interested in making money and then sacrifice my family life sacrifice my intellectual life my spiritual life so you see to me personally if I were to train you train my disciples I would say practice giving of wealth meaning that give material things whether it's money your organs giving of the organs is another issue that I rather find funny that many of the Buddhist disciples after hearing they're
Supposed to give in their internal organs they sign away especially in the US they sign away on their driver's license I want to give away my organs if I—I die in accident I say please don't do that okay that's not wise of you don't do that so anyway because after you die and and the doctor's opens you up and cut up your heart and your liver and your kidneys it hurts like hell it still hurts like hell and you're going to be so Afflicted and you regret that you you check that box in your driver's license at least in California where I am going
To give you my internal organs that's silly if you're that Afflicted you fall okay so avoid it unless you have some real Kung Fu that someone will take a knife and cut your arm off you feel no pain then fine by all means give away your organs after you die but you can't do that do not give away your your organs please unless you want to take a chance and see if you going to fall or not most likely you will so you you you practice giving outside giving outer giving meaning you give things outside yourself you give money you give I don't know you
Give labor you give your car you give whatever that's called outer giving and then your inner living is we referred to is your internal organs and stuff like that that's another form giving of wealth so far so good the objective of practicing giving of wealth is you have to keep on giving and giving because your natural instinct especially For You Western educated people in natural instance is always measuring okay calculating I give something what do I get in return if you do that that's called poor giving okay and it's natural we all do that so the the purpose of giving you need to first practice
Giving wealth don't tell me about giving the dharm yet please practice giving wealth because you're giving wealth you are cring blessings when it's time for you to cultivate you need support you need money you need clothes you need shelters you need medicine those things are the blessings you ACW that you reap from the giving of wealth so now you can see why I insist that you should be practicing all three types of givings not just one how can you become Enlighten if you don't get material things to support to sustain your cultivation now the parameter of the giving wealth is achieved when we because we
Talk about parameter right this is how how do we know I'm going to I get there how do I when do I get there how do I realize I get there and one of the tips I give you you get that because you when you practice giving okay you stingy you are profoundly stingy so the Buddha is very very the the the Buddha sa Dharma is very very challenging because you keep on giving and the tip I give you I gave you is you give if you practice giving keep giving until it hurts you keep on giving it hurts that's when you get rid of
Your stinginess so for example the people that are admired like Mr gate I read recently that he gave away $50 billion dollar of his fortune that's impressive but he give does it hurt for him hell no not at all not at all so he May be giving $50 billion but he's not attaining the param whereas Someone Like You who's not as rich you keep giving you give $5 $10 $100 $1,000 it hurts you keep on giving and giving your wife complains you keep on giving and that brings you a lot closer to that parameter than someone who's wealthier so that's the clue give and give and give until it hurts don't stop don't tell don't tell yourself that's enough that's enough you know that's the tip okay the giving of wealth give until it hurts to