The document discusses the concept of giving and receiving with the heart versus the mind. It states that true giving involves having no expectations of receiving something in return. If a giver later wants what was given returned, they become an "Indian giver" who is taking rather than giving. Nature gives without conditions or expectations. The mind often wants to selfishly receive or take back gifts, whereas true giving comes from the heart without judgments of the receiver. We should focus on unconditional giving from the heart each day rather than expectations of receiving something in return.

1. Take, Take, Take
November 10, 2020
When giving a gift, have no expectations. Giving is receiving and
receiving from the heart. The givers heartfelt choice is to not to
ask for it back of course. He who gives from the heart has received. End of giving. The receiver
is best to receive from the heart. If the giver, later for whatever reason, wants what was given
returned, he becomes what most of us learned as ‘kids’, an ‘indian giver’. In other words,
someone who has reversed the giving and become a ‘take, take, taker’, and it can only be from
the mind which it likely was given from initially.
Nature is nature and gives what it does with no possibility of taking the earthquake or storm
back because some didn’t like it for whatever reason. Nature as the giver does not take
responsibility for how it’s reacted to. The receiver has the responsibility to make the choice of
how to react or respond. Nature is gift giving being it perceived as heartfelt or heatless, it is all
in the eyes of the perceiver.
The mind often is looking to serve what it wants selfishly.
Wanting something back without regard for it being
received from the heart, because of judging that the
receiver didn’t appreciate it, is reverse ‘take, take, taking.
There is no Santa Clause, but if there were one, he
wouldn’t come back to take his toys or decide before the
next Christmas that the receiver wasn’t appreciative
enough!
Greed is always from the ‘mind’ to serve the wanting of the
mind of judgment. Always ‘the receiver’ to be receiving is
thank full and appreciative regardless of the outcome. Intent of giving and
receiving is of goodwill and joy. Giving a meal in a restaurant is from the heart.
Receiving it is from appreciation. How one eats it, be it ‘finished’ or not, is the
receivers choice that began and continued with good intentions.
We have seemingly arrived in a time of ‘take, take, take’. Something for nothing;
buy one get one free and even having to do nothing but be given free by others. The truth of
the matter is that simply by giving you will receive all that you need. Giving is receiving.Today
let me find a way to ‘give’ unconditionally and with love.
Give a smile; give a word of appreciation; give a thought of good wishes; give your co-
operation for a task. Make today a day of giving and tomorrow you will receive the fruits. Love
is more than a word as well as free, and is not of the mind for the real love of the heart. COUNT
YOUR BLESSINGS, NOT YOUR MONEY!
Arhata~