The spirit of giving implies an environment of cooperative living and not a competitive world of today. We can bring back such community and environmental awareness only with considerable self-effort in the community, such as ‘Wednesdays’.
Today, nature is making us "pay" for our negligence with severe changes in environment to teach us to 'give' and not just 'take' from our environment. We need a shift in awareness in the world, from greed based capitalism and consumerism that is decimating our environment, to one that can sustaining and even improve our environment. This shift from materialism to spiritualism needs to start at home.
Without this community awareness, the concept “give without expectation” sounds more like “wall street” advertisement on the “Main street”. : ).
On Jul 25, 2012 Narendra wrote :
Today, nature is making us "pay" for our negligence with severe changes in environment to teach us to 'give' and not just 'take' from our environment. We need a shift in awareness in the world, from greed based capitalism and consumerism that is decimating our environment, to one that can sustaining and even improve our environment. This shift from materialism to spiritualism needs to start at home.
Without this community awareness, the concept “give without expectation” sounds more like “wall street” advertisement on the “Main street”. : ).