Ethics in Life
Ethics means following a code of conduct based on a system, which, if applied accurately, promotes development of values, virtues and character. Ethics applies to personal life, in interaction with others and professionally. Ethics means to have a policy for the self.
Discipline makes everything accurate, beautiful, spiritual and simple. A code of conduct can be maintained when the intellect is not easily pulled or shaken by small matters. It is easy to relate with someone who has good discipline.
Our first ethic and code of conduct is to have an open heart. This requires bravery. Positive thought, the root of virtue, keeps the atmosphere clean and clear. Without an open heart, there is distress. You can neither do what you want, nor communicate clearly, you cannot even co-operate. You feel you will run out, so you do not give too much. A generous heart is not a question of money, but a state of being equal with everyone.
At the workplace, one would do well to be honest and mindful of ethical principles before speaking. The conscience indicates whether actions are right or wrong. Acting with wisdom and understanding beforehand never brings regret afterwards. A good code of conduct implies respect, noticing specialities without jealousy, and being loving. There is the feeling of belonging. When working for an unethical company, do not be influenced by unethical activities, or let go of ethics or the code of conduct. Be very cautious and careful not to get influenced. Do not be so innocent that they use you. You need wisdom and cleverness. When there is caution, you have hunches. Even if the company you are forking with/for is notorious for lack of integrity, one who works with a great deal of integrity will enable that company to gain respect.
People do have high morals but the atmosphere of the world undermines them. You need such power of spirituality that a person cannot pressurise you. If there is no spiritual power, there is no access to values and virtues. Many people get confused and frightened by the defect of others.
Understand people’s capabilities and limitations, otherwise, you are not helping them and they lose hope. Do not encourage jealousy. Zeal and enthusiasm should also be filled with such power.
A pure positive attitude is honourable, brings internal power, and elevates character. Someone who wants to be an instrument to serve the world knows how to work with integrity. Those who are an example and inspiration to the world become highly respected, possibly even very high ranking, but they also have great humility.
They do not alter their character or virtues according to who they are with. They have true pride in themselves.
Integrity over a long period of time makes one (the soul) powerful. Some speak the truth harshly, and hurt people. Some tell ‘beautiful’ lies. You need caution. Truth doesn’t need to be proved, it is revealed automatically when spoken with wisdom. Integrity means honesty and no selfishness, thinking of the benefit of others. The intellect is clear, not mixing truth and falsehood. Knowing a clear conscience to be the reward of honesty, a person of integrity is unshakeable, never drawn into anything, and considers the consequences of action. If you are not wise and accurate, then you are deceiving people.
Applying ethics accurately over a long period without being influenced by others develops the power of discrimination and reveals the level of others’ ethics. You can catch their vibrations through words and actions. If someone is absolutely truthful, no one can cheat them. If you have the slightest bit of falsehood, it is likely to be deceived. You have to be on guard with self-respect, be aware and observe. Otherwise, unsuspectingly, you will come under an influence.
Trust is gained with open, clear communication and unselfish motives. Susceptibility to greed allows one to be trapped. Trust is earned after there has been proof of success. A trustee is honest, with integrity not with the wealthy. A wealthy person will not be made a trustee for another wealthy person, due to the possibility of deception or cheating. If you do a great deal of work, but lack integrity, people’s trust is over. Tasks accomplished with faith win the trust of others because they are evaluating the degree of honesty and faith. A trustee has to bear in mind that donations should not be misused. Steady determination and activity promotes faith.
Cultivate a far-reaching intellect that is subtle and broad, not impulsive. Perform beautiful actions so they influence your mind. The mind, words and actions are deeply interconnected. Your actions should be a light showing the path to others. If your actions are right, their impact can never be forgotten.
Ethics means following a code of conduct based on a system, which, if applied accurately, promotes development of values, virtues and character. Ethics applies to personal life, in interaction with others and professionally. Ethics means to have a policy for the self.
Discipline makes everything accurate, beautiful, spiritual and simple. A code of conduct can be maintained when the intellect is not easily pulled or shaken by small matters. It is easy to relate with someone who has good discipline.
Our first ethic and code of conduct is to have an open heart. This requires bravery. Positive thought, the root of virtue, keeps the atmosphere clean and clear. Without an open heart, there is distress. You can neither do what you want, nor communicate clearly, you cannot even co-operate. You feel you will run out, so you do not give too much. A generous heart is not a question of money, but a state of being equal with everyone.
At the workplace, one would do well to be honest and mindful of ethical principles before speaking. The conscience indicates whether actions are right or wrong. Acting with wisdom and understanding beforehand never brings regret afterwards. A good code of conduct implies respect, noticing specialities without jealousy, and being loving. There is the feeling of belonging. When working for an unethical company, do not be influenced by unethical activities, or let go of ethics or the code of conduct. Be very cautious and careful not to get influenced. Do not be so innocent that they use you. You need wisdom and cleverness. When there is caution, you have hunches. Even if the company you are forking with/for is notorious for lack of integrity, one who works with a great deal of integrity will enable that company to gain respect.
People do have high morals but the atmosphere of the world undermines them. You need such power of spirituality that a person cannot pressurise you. If there is no spiritual power, there is no access to values and virtues. Many people get confused and frightened by the defect of others.
Understand people’s capabilities and limitations, otherwise, you are not helping them and they lose hope. Do not encourage jealousy. Zeal and enthusiasm should also be filled with such power.
A pure positive attitude is honourable, brings internal power, and elevates character. Someone who wants to be an instrument to serve the world knows how to work with integrity. Those who are an example and inspiration to the world become highly respected, possibly even very high ranking, but they also have great humility.
They do not alter their character or virtues according to who they are with. They have true pride in themselves.
Integrity over a long period of time makes one (the soul) powerful. Some speak the truth harshly, and hurt people. Some tell ‘beautiful’ lies. You need caution. Truth doesn’t need to be proved, it is revealed automatically when spoken with wisdom. Integrity means honesty and no selfishness, thinking of the benefit of others. The intellect is clear, not mixing truth and falsehood. Knowing a clear conscience to be the reward of honesty, a person of integrity is unshakeable, never drawn into anything, and considers the consequences of action. If you are not wise and accurate, then you are deceiving people.
Applying ethics accurately over a long period without being influenced by others develops the power of discrimination and reveals the level of others’ ethics. You can catch their vibrations through words and actions. If someone is absolutely truthful, no one can cheat them. If you have the slightest bit of falsehood, it is likely to be deceived. You have to be on guard with self-respect, be aware and observe. Otherwise, unsuspectingly, you will come under an influence.
Trust is gained with open, clear communication and unselfish motives. Susceptibility to greed allows one to be trapped. Trust is earned after there has been proof of success. A trustee is honest, with integrity not with the wealthy. A wealthy person will not be made a trustee for another wealthy person, due to the possibility of deception or cheating. If you do a great deal of work, but lack integrity, people’s trust is over. Tasks accomplished with faith win the trust of others because they are evaluating the degree of honesty and faith. A trustee has to bear in mind that donations should not be misused. Steady determination and activity promotes faith.
Cultivate a far-reaching intellect that is subtle and broad, not impulsive. Perform beautiful actions so they influence your mind. The mind, words and actions are deeply interconnected. Your actions should be a light showing the path to others. If your actions are right, their impact can never be forgotten.
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Once you stop repressing your emotions, you will find not only definite individual negative
emotions, such as hostility, resentment, aggressiveness, and envy, but also certain psychological
conditions. It is important to recognize their existence and their significance. Are they real? Are
they mature? When you ask these questions, you will understand how they breed the negative
emotions about which, consciously or unconsciously, you feel so guilty.
Let me discuss three such conditions. The first is a tendency to moralize -- with yourself and
therefore also with others. Often such moralizing does not appear outwardly at all. In fact,
outwardly the very opposite may appear. But inward moralizing exists to some extent in all human
beings. We have already discussed this in connection with the idealized self-image, and with the
excessive demands and expectations you have of yourself -- and therefore of others. But we have
not discussed such perfectionistic expectations from a moralistic viewpoint. For if you expect
impossible standards of yourself, moralizing is a necessary result.
I wish to show you how such moralizing stifles the living spirit of the good and the true to
which you aspire; how it makes you arrogant and intolerant; how it prohibits the humility of self-
acceptance and therefore keeps you from liking yourself. Without this, self-respect is impossible.
What is the meaning of moralizing? Offhand you may ask, "What is wrong with it? Aren't we
taught not only in religion, but in all philosophies, the importance of goodness, decency,
righteousness? Shouldn't we adhere to these rules? Don't we need them? Without them, we might
not be such good people." It is true, as I have so often already stated, that humanity is still far too
undeveloped to live without outer laws. When it comes to conduct, such laws serve as protection
and are necessary. But it is altogether different to expect yourself to be quite free of negative
impulses and emotions and to reject yourself because they exist. This nonacceptance of yourself as
you still are induces you to hide what you disapprove of and causes you to have a stringent, rigid,
moralizing attitude about yourself whenever a crisis brings the negative out.
As long as your "right" conduct is motivated by stringent self-moralizing, based on "good or
bad," your goodness or righteousness is not genuine. It does not come from natural insight and
inner growth but from fear: the fear about your imperfection. Therefore, such "goodness" is
ineffectual, unconvincing to yourself as well as to others. It is a compulsion, not a choice. And you
cannot be in reality when you are compulsive, for reality cannot be evaluated in the extreme terms of
good or bad. When these terms cease to apply to anything but very crass issues, the borderlines
become subtle and hazy. The issue is no longer capable of being settled by quick judgment about
what is good or bad. Then the truth can be found only deep within yourself, instead of in the rigid
laws and rules you borrow because you are too insecure to delve into your own soul. But since you
don't dare to find the truth there, you adhere to ready-made rules, and the moment you do you
moralize.
if you do not trust yourself, you have to borrow a rigid structure of morality in
order to protect yourself from your untamed instincts. You think that the alternatives are either
acting out these untamed, destructive impulses, or living according to the rigid outer rules. In reality
these are not feasible alternatives at all. The healthy, constructive solution is inner growth that must
eventually make you outgrow destructive impulses. But where this cannot yet happen because you
simply are not that far developed, you need not act out those impulses but should simply take note
of them. You can then see them without falling into the error of picturing yourself as all bad.
Exaggerated self-condemnation is connected with the second condition we shall discuss, namely,
disproportionate reactions. One imperfection has the power to color your entire emotional
experience of yourself. This is not an intellectual, conscious judgement, but an emotional reaction.
This extreme, negative view arising from certain negative instincts or feelings causes an
inordinate fear. The more you fear your imperfections, the more stringently you will moralize. The
more demanding the standards of your idealized self-image, the more rigid your superstructure will
be. But this is not your real nature. Alienation from yourself is both the result and the origin of this
predicament. Rigidity, fear, insecurity, intolerance -- all these exist in you because of this self-
alienation. And this self-deprecation is then often projected on others.
Your idealized self-image is created not only for winning love and approval from others -- as
you believe it will -- but also serves to protect you from yourself.
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