Letting go of attachments and aversions can be hard. The feeling of letting go can be just like the feeling of actual loss. But generosity meditation can make letting go pleasant.
It's kind of like metta meditation.
For example, think of the situation where there is one cookie left and instead of taking it for yourself, you tell your friend, "You can have it."
Think of the feeling you have when you do that.
Meditate, focus your attention, on that feeling of generosity, denying yourself in favor of someone else. It's a nice feeling, like metta. It makes letting go pleasant instead of painful.
(It helps to prepare for meditation this way.)
Then try to apply that feeling to more people. Start with people you like, then strangers, then maybe people you might not like so much. You might even be able to let "fate" or karma have those things you want but don't have or give you those things you don't want. You could build up to being given things you don't want by fate, by starting with a friend needing your help (giving you a problem).
If you can feel generosity in all those situation you can let go of all your attachments and aversions. What a huge relief. Now you can stop worrying about all those things.
When you give to someone else, you are being unselfish, un-self-ish. It's similar to metta, maybe it has metta in it but in addition to metta there is also that added aspect of unselfishness.
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