Support

In the mindfulness tradition, offerings are a way of showing support for the teaching. The community and the teachers sustain each other in a reciprocal relationship- like gardening that gives both the gardener food to eat and the land the strength to grow strong. In the end, everyone benefits and the teachings live on.

My teachers learned from a lineage of people who shared with them, and now they have shared with me. This thread of care winds its way through me and you. It is a tradition.

One way to celebrate this is by practicing generosity. Giving, in the end, is a way of receiving.