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Nice article and great motivation for people who believe in the human goodness inspite of the " nothing works in this world " attitude . The most boring conversations i hear is about "nothing works ; we cant do anything about it attitude " and i often wonder why whoever talks about it do at least something about it . We dont have to be like the five star chef who left his 6 figure salary for helping the destitute . But often even without giving money there are lot of ways in which we can help fellow beings . I know people who are very happy and the main reason they are happy is they give more than they receive both in kind words as well as money (whatever they can afford ) .
I have told you about my hobby in reading up the biography of famous people and it was a surprise for me that Sri Buddha advocated the middle path . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_way#Noble_Eightfold_Path
I thought being a monk and having left his pretty wife and kid and kingdom and choosing his ascetic life he advocated a life of "monk like existence " . But truly being a great indian sage he found true wisdom that advocated neither extremes .
Compared to my childhood i find the soceity more heterogenous these days . Technologically so advanced ( i love it ) but in attitude to the suffering or disadvantaged things have gone for a toss . Maybe having lived in ancestral home where along with the riches i saw lot of charity being done and these days i find attitudes changing . Not that charity doesnt take place like giving the inflation adjusted "1 rupee " charity to random beggar but giving charity in the right spirit and even in kind words .
PS : Living a life 24/7 for charitable purpose is a personal decision and that is not for all . But living a life of middle path ( not in a buddhist sense as im not a Buddhist Richard Garre is :) can be lived , I have seen some people doing it and i have seen them as happy . And lastly altruism has shown positive changes in brain according to latest functional brain MRI research .
Nice article and great motivation for people who believe in the human goodness inspite of the " nothing works in this world " attitude . The most boring conversations i hear is about "nothing works ; we cant do anything about it attitude " and i often wonder why whoever talks about it do at least something about it . We dont have to be like the five star chef who left his 6 figure salary for helping the destitute . But often even without giving money there are lot of ways in which we can help fellow beings . I know people who are very happy and the main reason they are happy is they give more than they receive both in kind words as well as money (whatever they can afford ) .
I have told you about my hobby in reading up the biography of famous people and it was a surprise for me that Sri Buddha advocated the middle path . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_way#Noble_Eightfold_Path
I thought being a monk and having left his pretty wife and kid and kingdom and choosing his ascetic life he advocated a life of "monk like existence " . But truly being a great indian sage he found true wisdom that advocated neither extremes .
Compared to my childhood i find the soceity more heterogenous these days . Technologically so advanced ( i love it ) but in attitude to the suffering or disadvantaged things have gone for a toss . Maybe having lived in ancestral home where along with the riches i saw lot of charity being done and these days i find attitudes changing . Not that charity doesnt take place like giving the inflation adjusted "1 rupee " charity to random beggar but giving charity in the right spirit and even in kind words .
PS : Living a life 24/7 for charitable purpose is a personal decision and that is not for all . But living a life of middle path ( not in a buddhist sense as im not a Buddhist Richard Garre is :) can be lived , I have seen some people doing it and i have seen them as happy . And lastly altruism has shown positive changes in brain according to latest functional brain MRI research .
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