Generosity as Antidote
Cultivating generosity overcomes the tendency to steal or hoard.
The positive expression of asteya is dana (giving). By cultivating generosity, one overcomes the grasping mentality that leads to stealing. Giving freely prevents the impulse to take unfairly.
Be generous and the desire to take will fall away.
Generosity and non-stealing are two sides of the same virtue.
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- What Jainism says about giving and service
Generosity is prescribed as the cure for grasping. It is aimed at the wanting, not only at the taking.