Do Not Take What is Not Given

This precept is to help us see and perhaps even confess our tendencies to take what comes into our life as a pleasure, an aggravation or for granted. Rather than be open and appreciative we tend to want something else, something more, something different, something otherwise. We become a thief when we clench down or push away what arrives in our life. Buddha knocks on the door and says come out, show up, open up, be cheerful, appreciative...look I have a gift for you...here it is...myriad things arise and fall away. We resort to thieving when we don't like what arises, what arrives as our life. There is an audio, Non Stealing. Thank you.