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existence too. Acceptance and non-acceptance go side by side. One perspective alone will not do. All our activities in life and society are built on the bricks of opposing principles. If these opposing bricks were not there, there would be no activity, no civilization. There are opposing desires, opposing aspirations and opposing conducts. If one man thinks in a certain way, another thinks in another way, an entirely opposite way. If one man looks at a certain proposition as gainful another may look at the same thing as a losing one. If one thinks of it as useful, another may think of it as totally useless. A single object invites many different kinds of thoughts. This is natural. There is nothing unnatural about this.
Opposing benefits
There was once a potter. He had two daughters. One was married into a family of farmers and another into a family of potters. Both were happy. One day the potter went to meet his daughters. Both of them were in the same village. He arrived at the house of the girl married into the farmer's family. He exchanged greetings and on seeing the daughter unhappy asked, “Child, why are you sad?” The
Acharya Mahaprajna
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