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To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. There's a classic tale that I wanted to begin with and it's about two brothers who worked on a family

farm together and one was single and the other had a family wife and children.

And at the end of the day they would share the proceeds of whatever they earned.

They shared everything equally.

And one day the brother that was married and with family said,

you know, it's not fair that we're sharing

everything equally I have a family to take care of me in my old age my brother

has nothing so he at the end of you know of the day at night time he took a sack of grain and he

snuck across the field and dumped it in his brother's bin. Meanwhile his younger brother who the single one was thinking you

know it's not fair that we're sharing everything equally my brother has a whole

family to take care of and my needs are simple I'm just living on my own.

So he got this idea and he at the end of the day after it was dark took a bag of his sack of grain and he brought it over through the field and dumped in his

brother's bin and this went on for years and both were very very puzzled why

their level of grain never dwindled until one night in the very darkness

of the night they ran into each other, dropped their grain, their bags of grain,

and realized what was going on and embraced.

So generosity. It's really a quality, a very natural quality of our hearts when our hearts are awake and it arises out of a very simple sense of belonging together.

We're connected. So of course we're going to want to take care of each other.

And in Buddhism, the course we're going to want to take care of each other.

And in Buddhism, the story of the Buddha's awakening

was very distinctive that the very first

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