How to propery pay back goodness and develop gratitude? Today morning, while browsing certain virtual Dhamma-places, the thought came into my persons mind: &quot;Indeed, there are seldom people who give without out expecting anything, food (for good thoughts), clothes (accounts), shelter (space), and medicin (assistanes to exist further) for long life and comfortable existence, shelter and help for the Dhamma and long time welfare for many. What if I ask about the secound kind of seldom people in this world, to bring this also into attention?&quot; Now having taken time for following that thought, my person likes to ask:
What would be the proper way to pay back goodness done to one?
What kind of ways are there, to do so?
What are the stages of being grateful, in accordiance to right view and ones personal circumstances?
...when we make use of facilities, time, sacrifies... of others.

Has done much
&quot;These three persons have done much to a person. Which three? The person gone to whom this person takes refuge in the Enlightenment, in the Teaching and the Community of bhikkhus.
&quot;The person gone to whom this person knows as it really is, this is unpleasant, this is the arising of unpleasantness, this is the cessation of unpleasantness and this is the path leading to the cessation of unpleasantness.
&quot;Again, the person gone to whom, this person destroys desires, releases the mind and released through wisdom, here and now abides having realized. These three persons have done much to this person.
&quot;It is not possible that these three persons could be thoroughly repaid with gratitude, by this person revering him, attending on him, clasping hands towards him and honouring him with robes, morsel food, dwellings and medicinal requisites.&quot;

May you like to let remembering words of Dhamma but also you most inner heart try to give an good answer.
(Note: This question is a gift of Dhamma and not meant for commercial purposes or other wordily gains)
I think that a typically Buddhist recommendation is that you try to be &quot;easy to support&quot;. For example if someone tries to do you a kindness (for example, by offering you food), then you're &quot;easy to support&quot; if you accept what's offered without making further, difficult demands.
Another example of being &quot;easy to support&quot; might mean being inoffensive and harmless (although arguably everyone should try to be so anyway, not only when repaying a kindness).
That said, I'm not sure that I agree with the premise of the question (that you should &quot;pay back&quot; goodness). I thought that kindness isn't necessarily supposed to be transactional: for example, monks don't sell Dharma. So when lay people support monks, and monks support lay people, I'm not sure this ought to be viewed as &quot;paying back&quot;.
A fairly widespread (not necessarily only Buddhist) alternative to &quot;paying back&quot; is called paying forward. That means, if someone is kind to you, then you &quot;return&quot; that favour by being kind to someone else!
&quot;Paying forward&quot; is a famous concept, at least on the internet: it's mentioned in one of this site's help topics, for example:

Pay it forward
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As an idea it's perhaps not incompatible with Buddhist ideals.