given all the incredibly valuable things taught to
us over the years by our respective spiritual teachers,
and by life itself. But I was thinking about it today
and I realized that I really had one. There is one
thing that I consider the most valuable teaching heard
and lesson learned in this lifetime.
What's yours?
Mine is the value of selfless service. I think that
if someone really *gets* this concept and acts upon
it, most of the other aspects of an effective spirit-
ual sadhana tend to fall into place.
Giving just rocks. It makes you happier than almost
anything else in life. The only things that have come
close for me are being madly, head-over-heels in love
and writing.
It's also not a bad deal from the karmic point of
view. If you cultivate the habit of giving, without
expectation of either reward or recognition *for*
giving, IMO it creates a really cool karmic wave,
one that neutralizes other karmas that might tempt
you into acting from a sense of self-ishness, and
that sets you up to perform the same sort of selfless
service in the future.
Rama talked about selfless service a lot, and in much
of his life personified it as well. But he's far from
the only teacher I've encountered who has taught
the value of giving.
I think Maharishi gave many of us here a great gift
by allowing us to be teachers. We probably didn't
deserve to be, but he let us take a shot at it.
And as a result of taking that shot, we got to exper-
ience what selfless service *feels* like. As a result,
many of us are still on a path of giving and service,
even if we're not still doing it as part of the TM
movement. He gave and we're continuing the trend.
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