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The Three Pebbles Story By Keith and Leng Leng
This is the story of a human’s journey to enlightenment as represented by the three pebbles below.....
The
Rough 'Pebble'
We begin our life like a rough
stone with jagged edges. When a baby is born, then during the journey of growing up, life is full of challenges and rough patches. These are the “sweet and sour” qualities of the life which we experience before we become a wiser person. The root cause for suffering relates to human desires, hatred, and ignorance.
The Smooth Round Pebble
We gradually smooth out our jagged edges and become like the second pebble - smooth and well-rounded.
The Heart
Shaped Pebble
Later we learn compassion and this is represented by the heart shape pebble.
Compassion is about recognizing the suffering
of others and wishing for that suffering to be
alleviated. The Heart shaped pebble also reminds us of the following riddle: Why do we have two legs, two arms, two eyes, two ears,
but only one heart? Because the other one was given to somebody else for us to find.
The heart stone also looks like
two pebbles overlapping at one end and separate at the other -
like the joining together of two people in love.
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