Caring for Everyone
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· 14 viewsGenerous unselfishness is the antidote for living out of a place ofprivilege and a building block of the common good.
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What is unselfishness?
What is unselfishness?
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. Oscar Wilde
The Budda taught that healthy unselfishness was like two acrobats, working together and relying on each other, contribute to looking after their partner by mindfully looking after themselves. (S. v. 168-169)
What about me?!
What about me?!
The text invites us to look not at our own interests alone, BUT ALSO (alla kai) to the interests of others
The Budda taught that healthy unselfishness was like two acrobats, working together and relying on each other, contribute to looking after their partner by mindfully looking after themselves. (S. v. 168-169)
For Jesus, the text teaches us that only in the radical self-emptying of the cross could he find again the ultimate glory he’d surrendered when coming to the earth.
Jesus found his way back to the privilege he once knew, by way of sharing it with others.
Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others.
1 Co 10:24