I have been having some thoughts about Dharma. Dharma is living the right way. I was reading book by Dr. Wayne Dyer ‘ Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao’ and following in an extract from one of the chapters that reflected similar ideas:
Picture yourself in a world where rules and laws don’t exist, where everyone lives peacefully and harmoniously. There’s no anarchy, thievery, hatred, or war; people simply live, work, love, and play without needing to be governed. Can you imagine a planet where the need for codes of conduct and edicts to govern the populace are simply unnecessary? This is the sort of idealistic mental meandering that led Lao-tzu to create this 18th verse of the Tao Te Ching, in which he’s clearly stating that you don’t need rules to be kind and just.
Laws or rules are seen by many as solely responsible for effectiveness kindness, justice and love – but you can choose to live form your heart, viewing these virtues as individual responsibilities that you adhere to without a statute or convention telling you to.
Rules are created to impose penalties to control or govern people who haven’t learned their individual responsibility as a part of the wholeness of the group.
Falsity among the people creates a need for rules, and rulers are needed to restore order.
Don’t act virtuous; be virtue
Be spontaneously generous to others because your inner calling demands it, not because others in their code making have determined that this is how you should behave.
Everyone is God Speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
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