'good deeds'

Often we tend to do 'good deeds' Because we have been conditioned to do them.

When the first time we must have done something nice for somebody . somebody would have patted our backs, or and used words of praises coupled with a happy face that would have got imprinted on our brains. It must have made us feel good too.

So that later, the mind would have trained itself to do good for the joyous feeling it gave us, even if nobody patted our backs and smiled. We had already equated good deeds with back pats and no longer needed them.

Then slowly and slowly we reach where even the joys of giving no longer gives as much joy.

Ah so i know im a good person, i know i do good deeds. So what? The tired mind that no longer feels the joy of giving as much as he used to before asks! What is it that im doing exceptional? Isnt what im doing that what everybody should be doing anyway?

The feel good fixes dont work anymore.

This is the time to drop the yoke of having to feel good to do good. Time which is now ripe for getting that much closer to detachment.

Li