Jainism For Beginners Level 02

Author(s): Sayampurnashreeji
Publisher: Sayampurnashreeji

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Mahavir-Swami ended the story there and paused, "That elephant was YOU. Meghakumar. You were able to withstand such pain and suffering to save a little rabbit. However, the very first night you find yourself disturbed by the touch of dust and the feet of other monks. You failed to tolerate any inconvenience. You failed to tolerate suffering with equanimity. Would you now let one sleepless night keep you from following the path of Compassion and lead you to Liberation?"
The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where the winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone does something good for us we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.
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Learn to write yiou hurts in the sand and to carve your blessing in stone.
- Unknown
Friendship SAND & STONE
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.”
- James L. Fredricks
wo friends were walking through
the desert. During the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other on the face. The one who got slapped was hurted but without saying anything he wrote in the sand:
You can make more friends by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie
"You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in a minute."
- Chinese Proverb
"Today my best friend slapped me in the face."
LIVING VALUES COMPASSION & FRIENDSHIP
They kept on walking until they found an oasis where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the swamp and started drowning; but his friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning he wrote on a stone:
Friendship makes life easier and richer. It has been proven that people who are social and have a lot of friends live longer and are healthier and happier than people who do not have friends.
"Today my best friend saved my life.”
There is a saying - A friend in need is a friend indeed Friends are those who stand by you in good times and in bad times. They are there when you need them
The friend, who had slapped and saved his best friend, asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand. And now you write on a stone, why?
the most, whether they say so or not. Life is easier when there is someone with you.
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