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Complete the following statements
5.
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2.
3.
Every time he lost his temper, he was told to into the back of the fence.
4.
On the first day he lost his
Over the next few weeks, as he learned to number of nails hammered daily gradually 6. Finally the day came when he did not fence and he told his father.
Now his father asked him to
The Angry Boy
The boy in the story had a
His father gave him a
11. 12.
7.
did not loose his temper.
8.
When all the nails were removed he found that the fence was full of
9.
people.
10.
When we get angry, we leave
We get angry because
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a nail
many times.
his anger, the down.
to bang any nail into the
out a nail on each day that he
We can overcome anger by
What is the moral of the story? How will you apply it in your daily life?
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13.
Activity
Each child is given a piece of wood (instead of a fence!) As in the story, the child bangs a nail in the wood every time they do something negative. There will come a day when the child prefers the option of not getting angry to banging nails in the wood. From that day on, like in the story, they remove a nail from the wood each day they refrain from getting upset. Did the same thing happen to them? Were you, children and adults, able to control your negative emotions and actions? Jainism believes that we should control our thoughts (Man), words (Vachan) and deeds (Käyä). By doing that we reduce our four Kashaya - Anger (Krodha), Ego (Mäna), Greed (Lobha), and Deceit (Mäyä), or at least not increase them.
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