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SadhanaOriental Meditation and Christian Prayer

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[6]Through courage and spirit to give

 Here, “give” means offering our precious things to our neighbors.  When we have burning love, we have courage and spirit to give valuable things to others.
 We sometimes know that our close friend is in need, and sometimes we offer a thing that we own to somebody who we think would want it.  There are various motives to give.
 And there are various things to give.
- Donating blood without hesitation
- Regularly contributing money to a certain project that supports a developing country
- Giving my favorite book to a person who wants it, even though I want to keep it
- Letting a visitor from abroad stay at my house because I learned that the person wishes to stay in Japan for quite a while and is paying too much
 When we can give, we feel an incomparable pure happiness that emerges in our heart.  And that is when we feel that we took a big step to God.  We can feel that we are closer to how God handles things.
 We tend to try to encounter God with focus on our brain activities.  But we can get closer to God through behavior that involves our entire existence and feel how God does things.  We know that we can get closer to and encounter God at any time if we want to.
 Giving our important things to others willingly is one of the great paths to encounter God.

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