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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 52: Be the gift, the blessing, the miracle
Description: In Buddhism, generosity is defined as the virtue of a generous attitude and any physical and verbal actions motivated by this intention. Thus, generosity is fundamentally a state of mind. Our goal would be to completely condition our mind to giving. It is conditioning our mind to wish to be the gift, the blessing, the miracle for other living beings. The practice of generosity entails generating, in various ways, the intention to give and steadily increasing this generosity, even though you may not be actually giving something away to others. Buddha once said, "If beings knew, as I...