Jain Center Los Angeles CA 1988 07 Jain Bhavan Inauguration

Author(s): Jain Center So CA Los Angeles
Publisher: USA Jain Center Southern California

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CONCEPTIONS AND PERCEPTION
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A swan was paddling serenely across a pond when a crow approached and asked, “How many styles have you for walking and flying?”
try to live outside because our ego can't exist without creating styles. It is always comparing and competing and so we get no peace.
“I have only one style," the swan replied.
Flow of Peace and Love
"You have only one style! I have a hundred styles," the crow said mockingly.
"You can have a hundred styles, but you will still remain a crow," the swan said as it gently glided away.
Different styles can't change a crow into something else. He cannot become a swan just because he knows different ways of walking and flying. It is better to have your own style, like the swan: to be yourself with your own ways of doing things.
In this world, we are here to evolve fully in peace. This human birth can be so peaceful and so full of blessings when we make the best of our days and nights. Meditation touches the core of our heart and helps free us from these tendencies of projected expectations from outside forms. Become natural and live in the flow of life. That is our meditation: Using our inner uniting force, the sense of inner perception, we get in touch with the REALITY which gives animation to all forms and lets us experience this wonderful flow of peace and love. In this light of awareness, we perceive REALITY as it is and live harmoniously in relation with both form and formless without creating projected expectations.
Life is a flow. But if we live only in the ego's exterior world of styles, we don't live a natural life. We lose touch with the natural flow of life. We then
परस्परोपग्रहो जीवानाम्
Live and Let Live
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