#2201

Spring has heralded the season. 

The day is filled with warmth, bird songs and fragrance. 

The light is tender with the occasional rain. 

Rise early, prepare (hard), rest late. 

While we prepare for the coming season, it is timely to revise the words of Kazuo Inamori. There are 4 areas that too many of us tend to be overly generous: 

Generosity with time. 

Focus on the things that are closest to your heart, and things that bring you the most value. Too much time is wasted with low hanging fruits. Reclaim your life.

Generosity with expenditure. 

We are living in an (external) world that advocates materials goods as status symbols, milestones markers, even therapy. It masks a deeper problem: an unfulfilled internal world. Reclaim this world.

Generosity with speech.

Of the things we hear and say daily, how much of it truly matters? We can probably start with some elimination, then repositioning that energy towards what truly matters to us. 

Generosity with giving up.

We are all travelling at different rhythms and speeds. Most of the time, it is the slower path that is faster (in the end). The best things in life take time, which we only receive with patience.

“Close your mouth; block your senses.

Blunt your sharpness, untie your knots.

Soften your glare, settle your dust.”