When we face our human condition, we can go beyond sensual distraction; we can end the grasping, clinging, comparing, and averting that characterize our normal perceptual acts. When we do so, we feel each act of perception as a gift received in peaceful gratitude. We don’t need to grasp in our greed or push it away in our annoyance. This is another way to understand the perfection of generosity—as perception itself, in which we receive the world as gift.
