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What does it mean?
Accept help without keeping track of it, and give help without expecting credit or memory.
In plain terms
When you take help, forget it. When you give help, don't remember it.
What can you take from it?
Give freely without remembering, and receive without forgetting gratitude.

Where it applies

  • helping others
  • accepting help
  • avoiding transactional giving

Putting it to work

  • give without conditions
  • accept help gracefully
  • let go of ledger

Questions to consider

  • Do you keep score when helping?
  • How do you accept help?

Another view

This ideal is hard to practice consistently in real-life exchanges.

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