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Rules of Being

I am writing this, at a time, in a society, where there seems to be plenty emphasis on Freedom yet not enough emphasis on Rules.

Is this right?

Freedom and Rules

In Life We are given Freedom.

In order to properly exercise Freedom We must use Rules.

To obtain and exercise Rules We must have Freedom to gather, develop or use Rules.

Therefore Rules and Freedom are dependent upon each other.

Freedom or Liberty, like Rules or Discipline, can be Healthy or unhealthy.

We need as much

  1. Healthy Freedom or Healthy Liberty
    and
  2. Healthy Rules or Healthy Discipline

as possible to live Healthy Lives.

To emphasise either Freedom or Rules one over the other can lead to unbalance.

To place importance on Freedom irrespective of Healthy Rules can lead to disaster.

To place importance on Rules irrespective of Healthy Freedom can lead to disaster.

Types of Rules

Rules can be self-imposed or externally-imposed.

Self-Imposed Rules (SIR’s)

If we have enough Freedom We can decide to be Responsible and govern ourselves with SIR’s, thereby relieving society and the environment from the extra burden of governing our lives for us.

Hopefully the SIR’s we develop will contribute to our Well-Being and that of others. If this is done then the SIR’s should improve “our lot in Life”.

I believe the best Healthy SIR’s are ones from the Higher Self, especially in the Soul Aspect, that one can be comfortable with and derive satisfaction from.

Externally-Imposed Rules (EIR’s)

Because we live in a society or environment (SOE) there are conditions that limit our activities in that SOE. These EIR’s possibly exist to ensure the survival and value system of the SOE.

Some EIR’s exist to help condition us to living in a SOE.

Without these EIR’s it is possible that We would not conform properly to the body of the SOE.

If our activities are helpful and healthy for the SOE then it is possible the SOE grants us Freedom to “do our own thing” in limited amounts within the SOE.

SIR’s and EIR’s

I like a society or Life with

  1. Maximum Healthy SIR’s
    and
  2. minimal unhealthy EIR’s

I dislike a society or Life with

  1. minimum Healthy SIR’s
    and
  2. maximum unhealthy EIR’s

Develop Your Own Rules

It is ESSENTIAL to have enough proper Rules to live by.

Without these our lives and the lives of others can become disasters.

If You do not have enough good fortune in Life due to excess deviation then I urge You to gather some healthy SIR’s that You are comfortable with and can live by.

It does not take much to find some paths to travel on the path to good ·fortune·.

Also please try to consider that some of the best steps You can take to the right rules are

Rewards of Rules

Prove it to yourself! If Rules seem to work for You then treasure them, examine them, take care of them.

Once we obtain and practice the Right Rules then we are on the Right Road for Living.

Rules can be addictive.

After I learn and practice some “Right Rules”, I move on and find other worthwhile Rules.


Footnotes:

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In my life I have been very fortunate to discover the “right rules” at the right time to live the “right” kind of life.

For example, in 1986 I had come to Sydney Australia after living 34 years mostly in the USA. I had acquired some unhealthy habits over my past years of trying to live a “successful” life. As a result I lacked inner satisfaction or much spiritual enjoyment.

Then one day I was travelling on one of the wonderful Sydney inner harbour ferries from the main terminal to the suburb of Manly. The ferry was almost empty of people but full of something good:

On the ferry seat beside me was a thin magazine entitled “Back to GodHead”. I picked up this colourful document and started casually reading through it.

Lo and Behold!

It was a publication by the Hare Krishna ISKCON Society and contained some spiritual insight and material about higher consciousness that had been absent in my life for many years.

In this magazine I discovered Four Basic Rules to Live By:

The Hare Krishna material promised that if someone lived according to these Rules then their life would be much better and they would be on the Road to GodHead, a higher state of Consciousness and Being.

So I gave the Rules a try, as best I could for at least 20 years up to the time of this writing, and for me, the Hare Krishna Rules seem to be the Right Ones!

And I gladly added other Rules such as:

(I am not a devotee or follower of the Hare Krishnas but am very grateful to Them for some of their wonderful devotion and sacrifice. For me the Krishnas were a lifesaver! I worked as a volunteer dishwasher at a really good Hare Krishna restuarant in Adelaide Australia from about 1990 to 1993. At this restuarant, called Crossways, a whole horde of all kinds of people were catered for, from office workers to welfare recipients to street people. If people could not afford the standard price they could show a proof-of-low-income card and pay a cheaper price for food that was much better than fast food. Sadly in about 1994 a group of greedy Krishnas moved into the city and took over the local operations to include the restuarant. After a while the greedy Krishnas closed the very popular and affordable Crossways restuarant and opened a more expensive “Yuppie” version called Govinda’s. It was never as good as Crossways. It was never as popular or comfortable or infused with the wonderful spirituality of Hinduism as Crossways. After several years of poor business the greedy Krishnas had to close down Govinda’s and there was much less public interest in the local operations of the Hare Krishnas in Adelaide. It was an excellent example of the Illusion in Life where something SO GOOD can vaporise and be replaced by something less worthwhile.)

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