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and he saw the same plague riding towards him. Confucius asked, “Why did you tell lies that you will kill ten thousand people?"
Replied Plague, "No sir, I did not tell lies." Confucius retorted, "In the town of Singai fifty thousand people have died, not ten thousand." Plague replied, "I killed only ten thousand. The remaining forty thousand died out of fear. How can I be responsible for that?"
Fear is an inner mode. We have to get to know such and similar emotional modes and change them.
How to change them and what is the basic rule for doing so? How to replace those modes that act as obstacles to life and give us unhappiness with those that can give complete happiness? This question is of utmost importance.
As our natural aspects get manifested, these negative emotions dry away in the same way as our natural emotions get weaker, negative or unnatural emotions get stronger.
The aphorism of meditational practice: perceive and know
According to the anekantic perspective the basic
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