Philosophy of Soul and Matter

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Clare Rosenfield
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Center

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you are losing both the person and your peace. In return you are getting nothing but the results of your negative vibrations.
* To realize what you are, meditate on the philosophy of life which can help you change your old habits of mind. Say to yourself, “The trees give up. Why do I not?” Watch each thought. Ask yourself, “Is this thought living in the past.” If so, then you know that you are not living in harmony with the season. If you notice that your mind likes to escape into the barn of old memories, say to yourself, “I am going out of the cycle of life because I am living in the past. The past has already given me the result I wanted and still I am clinging to it.”
By watching you are able to untie yourself. You resolve, “I want to go further.” Many good things are waiting for you tomorrow if you untie yourself from the past. All the springs come from winter. What you call barrenness is to the trees nothing but a period in which they have to wait in expectation. This period is given to you for your understanding.
It is a period of transition, before the coming of