Buddhism Now
In the Taoist tradition there is a saying ‘dim your light’. In Buddhism we talk about ‘hidden virtue’. Really they are both the same. If we hide our virtue, although we do many good deeds, we try to keep ourselves out of the picture. We keep our view of self small by not attracting attention to ourselves as the doers of virtuous deeds. When we see a need arise, especially one that no one wishes to fulfil—we go ahead and fulfil it. There are many such opportunities in the course of a single day that will serve to occupy all of our idle time and still leave many things undone. Such chores are often tedious and boring, but doing them will consume much time that might otherwise get consumed in idle chatter and unprofitable activities. Thus performing many small good deeds we, in time, accumulate the merit and virtue necessary to perfect our cultivation of the way. (more…)
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