Just to possible touch some unseen, good householder
karl_lew Let us eat that we may serve others, opening our hearts into love, compassion, rejoicing and equanimity, and live without wishes, in this very life.
That's very Christian, Brahma, isn't it?
If thinking, that way even the snake goes on.
Good to reflect the Son's flesh and try all pathrelevant to abound bonds in this world.
If eating for just that reason, practicing the Brahma Viharas, one is said to eat alms debtless. And it has the sideeffect that it serves all by such "selfishness" why in other turn it may be argued outside as superior but if investigated it turns out selfish and of no help over all. And what is the reason of wrong release? Wrong view.
When having observed Sila, generosity, even so, if still holding wrong view, it's because of this to fall downwardly, in areas where there are less chances to either make merits, choose livelihood, nor to grow in Dhamma. So it's wise to focus on right view in such an auspicious life.
...Householder, of these ten enjoying sensuality and evident in the world, the one enjoying sensuality earning money righteously and considerately and with the money enjoying sensuality and sharing it with others doing merit, partaking it, not enslaved not bound not swooned, wisely seeing the danger and the escape from it is the chief, foremost and the noble. Householder, just as from a cow milk is begot, from milk curd, from curd butter, from butter ghee, from ghee the cream of ghee and the cream of ghee is the foremost. In the same manner, householder, of these ten enjoying sensuality and evident in the world, the one enjoying sensuality earning money righteously and considerately and with the money enjoying sensuality and sharing it with others doing merit, partaking it, not enslaved not bound not swooned, wisely seeing the danger and the escape from it, is the chief, foremost and the noble.
Imagining "Us", btw., already points to root.