Normally, when people meat each other, they would exchange what and how they could consume there and here. If something would be worthy to dedicate ones time, depends mostly if it would share any benefit. "What do I get from it?" Often people bear such an attitude also in regard of a monastery of meditation center, but that is the wrong way to step into the practice. In this short evening talk the author explains how an attitude of giving and letting go - from the very beginning till the end of the path - is leading to joy and to another view of one self: "You could be of cause also a being which is not just consuming all the time."