For Happy Living Follow Two Rules
There are two rules which. when followed, can greatly help one to get along with others. These are the two rules for happy living: First. to be able to experience anything, and second, cause only those things which others are able to experience easily. The maxim "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" has been repeated often in various religions. But such golden rules, while they served to help human beings rise above base instincts, resulted in no sure sanity, success or haрpiness. Such a golden rule gives only the cause-point, or at best the reflexive effect-point. This is a self-done-to-self concept and tends to put one on an obsessive cause. It gives no thought to what one does about the things others not so indoctrinated do to us. How should we handle the unsavoury things others do to us? There are many random answers to this question: that the effects on self don't exist: become a martyr; condemn all sin; and so on. But they are incomplete. How to be happy is a subject few have ventured to address directly. They only assure us that as human beings, we are doomed to suffer, so they tell us not how to be happy, but how to endure being unhappy. We have a negative goal: to get rid of all the unhappiness on Earth so that it is made livable. If you seek to get rid of something continually, you admit that you are unable to confront it. The effect side of life deserves great consideration. The self-caused side also deserves examination. To create only those effects which others could easily experience gives us a new rule of living. If you examine your life, you will find you are bothered only by those actions a person did which others were not able to receive. The more actions a person generates which could not be experienced by others, the worse a person's life became. Communication is one means of reaching others. If a person is unable to communicate, he won't really get to know about others; and with knowing little or nothing about others, he doesn't have any feeling about them either, thus his affinity will be low. Affinity, reality and communication work together; and if one of these three is high, the other two will also be high: but if one is low, so will others be. All bad acts, then, are those acts, which cannot be easily experienced at the target end. By this definition, let us review our own "bad acts". Which ones were bad? Only those that could not be easily experienced by another were bad. Thus, which of society's favourite bad acts are bad? Acts of real violence resulting in pain, unconsciousness, insanity and heavy loss could at this time be considered bad. The things which you have done which you could not easily, yourself, experience were bad. But the things which you have done which you, yourself, could have experienced, had they been done to you, were not bad. That certainly changes one's view of things! There is no need to lead a violent life just to prove one can experience. The idea is not to prove one can experience, but to regain the ability to experience. We now have two golden rules for happiness: Be able to experience any thing; and cause only those things which others are able to experience easily. Your reaction to these tells how far you have yet to go. And if you achieve these two golden rules, you would be one of the happiest and most successful people in this universe.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Ron Hubbard kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Ron Hubbard Speaking Tree,Times of India
For Happy Living Follow Two Rules
There are two rules which. when followed, can greatly help one to get along with others. These are the two rules for happy living: First. to be able to experience anything, and second, cause only those things which others are able to experience easily. The maxim "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" has been repeated often in various religions. But such golden rules, while they served to help human beings rise above base instincts, resulted in no sure sanity, success or haрpiness. Such a golden rule gives only the cause-point, or at best the reflexive effect-point. This is a self-done-to-self concept and tends to put one on an obsessive cause. It gives no thought to what one does about the things others not so indoctrinated do to us. How should we handle the unsavoury things others do to us? There are many random answers to this question: that the effects on self don't exist: become a martyr; condemn all sin; and so on. But they are incomplete. How to be happy is a subject few have ventured to address directly. They only assure us that as human beings, we are doomed to suffer, so they tell us not how to be happy, but how to endure being unhappy. We have a negative goal: to get rid of all the unhappiness on Earth so that it is made livable. If you seek to get rid of something continually, you admit that you are unable to confront it. The effect side of life deserves great consideration. The self-caused side also deserves examination. To create only those effects which others could easily experience gives us a new rule of living. If you examine your life, you will find you are bothered only by those actions a person did which others were not able to receive. The more actions a person generates which could not be experienced by others, the worse a person's life became. Communication is one means of reaching others. If a person is unable to communicate, he won't really get to know about others; and with knowing little or nothing about others, he doesn't have any feeling about them either, thus his affinity will be low. Affinity, reality and communication work together; and if one of these three is high, the other two will also be high: but if one is low, so will others be. All bad acts, then, are those acts, which cannot be easily experienced at the target end. By this definition, let us review our own "bad acts". Which ones were bad? Only those that could not be easily experienced by another were bad. Thus, which of society's favourite bad acts are bad? Acts of real violence resulting in pain, unconsciousness, insanity and heavy loss could at this time be considered bad. The things which you have done which you could not easily, yourself, experience were bad. But the things which you have done which you, yourself, could have experienced, had they been done to you, were not bad. That certainly changes one's view of things! There is no need to lead a violent life just to prove one can experience. The idea is not to prove one can experience, but to regain the ability to experience. We now have two golden rules for happiness: Be able to experience any thing; and cause only those things which others are able to experience easily. Your reaction to these tells how far you have yet to go. And if you achieve these two golden rules, you would be one of the happiest and most successful people in this universe.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Ron Hubbard kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Ron Hubbard Speaking Tree,Times of India