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🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is episode 1,944 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
0:10.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to our series this week, where every day this week you will explore |
0:20.2 | a different virtue, seven virtues for seven days this week. |
0:27.0 | You will also explore the opposing quality of the virtue. So you will also explore the seven deadly |
0:36.7 | sins. And in this week's series I have a bad cold so I hope you will be patient in listening to my |
0:49.1 | voice this week patience is one of the virtues you will explore in a few more episodes. |
0:57.0 | For today, the virtue you will explore is that of charity and the opposing quality of greed. |
1:10.0 | You will discover as your meditation technique a breathing technique that will help you feel more receptive to give of yourself, giving of yourself freely. |
1:30.0 | These days can seem a little awkward. |
1:35.6 | In fact, sometimes it can feel |
1:39.6 | as though when you give something away freely that others can take advantage of you. |
1:46.6 | I think that a lot of the virtues are learned culturally within a society. |
1:55.0 | I'm thinking about traveling through Asia, |
1:59.0 | where I had the chance to live for five years in Japan and the culture there is very charitable because it's |
2:08.4 | expected. If you're not charitable it's considered a terrible quality, and you're looked down upon. |
2:17.0 | Most times the customer service there was usually exceptional. |
2:23.0 | Other countries where I've traveled, |
2:26.0 | I've noticed that unless you are connected to some group, then people don't necessarily feel they have to be charitable |
2:40.3 | to you. |
2:41.7 | I remember waiting for a flight to travel back to the United States and I was in |
2:50.8 | the airport with myed and the airplane was overbooked and so some people weren't going to get on. |
2:58.8 | So even though we had tickets for the flight, we might be bumped off just as anyone else could be |
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