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while spending our time in the rat race seeking vast fortunes through industries such as chemicals, petroleum, diamonds, armaments, investments, etc.,
activities at complete odds with the teachings of ahimsa hand aparigraha. We should be reducing our water usage,
eliminating the use of chemicals in our home and avoiding disposable products.
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Thirdly, as a group we need to be beacons of light - examples of living and thinking non-violently. Our Jain centres should be completely non-violent through their construction and use. It should matter how people get there and what they do there. Can you imagine a Jain convention that produces not the dozens of truckloads of plastic waste that kills land converting it into landfill, but only biodegradable waste that nourishes the land and life? We need to practise our values in public gatherings and show by example that simplicity is indeed practical.
Finally, we need to go beyond our focus on our personal life and action and think of the state of the world in our next life. Using anekantvada we can develop social and spiritual connections to all life. We need to serve to be a source of social transformation, showing a non-violent path for the world to embrace, to heal the wounded planet and to ease the suffering felt by all life on it..
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Rajesh Shah lives in Oakland, California and is trying to become a non-violent life-form.
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