Wednesday, 23rd April 2025 - What kind deeds did I do today to make others happy

1. I washed the shared bathroom and mopped the floor.

2. I watered the two shared gardens, front and back.

3. I emptied the the bins in the house and put in new bin liners.

4. Emptied the dust in the hoover's dust container into the bin.

5. Vacuumed the communal areas on the ground floor, on the middle floor and on the top floor and the sitting room, kitchen and bathroom.

6. I decluttered some of my stuff and other people's stuff in my room.

Comments

• Avoid desire because it causes suffering. When you don't desire anything, you don't suffer. This does not mean that you won't get good things through good karma for good actions in the past. It means you don't desire material goods, circumstances and people. Instead you are grateful for what you have at the moment and you utilise your time by being kind and loving to others. Putting other people's welfare before your own is kind and desire is not kind. Examples of kindness is giving things to others including money and gifts, helping others including doing the gardening or housework or cooking vegetarian or vegan food for free for someone, opening the door for someone, giving up your seat in the bus or tube for someone who is standing, carrying heavy luggage for someone, helping with cooking food or/and serving food at a soup kitchen which is providing food for those on low income, homeless or unemployed, donating food to a food bank, donating money to charity, volunteering time to help a charity deliver a service to the community. When you are kind, you get good karma which means good things happen to you. This can include health benefits, getting good housing, receiving material goods, getting a good job, relating better with people, getting more money and living in a nice attractive environment. This is the teaching of Buddha to end suffering. Try your hardest to be kind and do kind deeds everyday and save up a treasure chest of lots of good karma towards you in the future.

• Good Karma - my blessings - what I have gained from kind actions in the past - What I am grateful for today:

  • A free roof over my head. Somewhere to sleep, put my stuff in, to work in, to live in and to shelter me from the harsh weather conditions.

  • Food everyday prepared by my housemate.

  • Clothes to wear especially in the cold weather.

  • Being alive and able to walk, having my five senses, namely being able to taste, talk, hear, see, smell and feel.

  • Having hair on my head.

  • Having clean water.

  • Having a shower

  • Having a sink

  • Having a toilet

  • Good housemates.

  • Free travel.

  • Benefits.

  • Shops where I can buy merchandise that is useful.

  • Shampoo that has healed the psoriasis on my scalp and hairline.