A Gift of Dharma for 1.5.11
Today’s quote is from Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche, founder and president of Jewel Heart, “a spiritual, cultural, and humanitarian organization that translates the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism into contemporary life,” and author of Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation. This is it, from a wonderful collection of quotes about generosity that you can find at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review:
When you are practicing generosity, you should feel a little pinch when you give something away. That pinch is your stinginess protesting. If you give away your old, worn-out coat that you wouldn’t be caught dead wearing, that is not generosity. There is no pinch. You are doing nothing to overcome your stinginess; you’re just cleaning out your closet and calling it something else. Giving away your coat might keep someone warm, but it does not address the problem we face as spiritual practitioners: to free ourselves from self-cherishing and self-grasping.
This via our friend, the super-great 
