Practising Pure Generosity

If someone's practising pure generosity, they shouldn't have any expectations whatsoever. So by you accepting that sweater and then giving it to some one else, there's no harm that you've given it to somebody else. You haven't harmed that person. But if they end up getting painful feelings asa result of knowing that you gave it to someOne else, then that means that their gift wasn't fully purified. Their gift had conditions. Their gift was not a purified gift the way tha the buddha talks about it. He says that this gift wasn't given with the right tention. Therefore, you can accept every gift that's ever given to you, and this is going

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