Dharma Talk: One Thing by Bonnie Myotai Treace, Sensei:
"There’s a movie out now called Pay It Forward that some of you may have seen, and some of you may have avoided given its “schmaltz factor.” In it, a teacher assigns his seventh-grade class to create a way in which they can personally change the world. One boy comes up with this plan to “do something big” to help three different people, with the understanding that each person will pay the gratitude forward by helping three more people. In the movie, the practice of paying it forward reveals what spiritual practice in general reveals: this inherent demand that we leap wholeheartedly into what seems impossible. When we do this, we inevitably encounter long stretches of seeming failure, when we have no assurance that our practice is having any impact despite our good intentions. This is the difficulty of just giving one’s life as it is to all beings."
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