When Honesty Causes Pain...

Howdy.

We have rules to follow so that one knows what to do when. i.e.:

1~driving along we keep to the right side of the road, the other car keeps to its right side (our left) and all is fine.
But what happens if the on coming driver is drunk? and it's a 2 lane road in the country, with steep ditches for shoulders, and this on coming driver is weaving all over the road, and you both are doing 60? good luck.

Well after the messy results whatever they may be, you discover by the Grace of the virgin Mary you both are alive and unharmed. Then you find this is your best friend. Both cars are damaged and you have to notify the police, insurance companies etc. No problem you have a cell phone.

But you remember that your best friend will be found DWI for the 3 time, they will have to go to jail and loose their license for 2 years. Their little baby is depending on this drunk driver for support - what do you do?

Tough decision you have to tell the truth or else...

2~You are at work, you know the boss has strict rules about not using the phone or cell phone on his time for personal calls. You know the person in the cube is bending this rule 3 -4 times daily. What to do? If she or he is good friend you may have another rule that says I have to protect them over the boss - I mean the boss is a BOSS and this is a FRIEND...
if this is an competitive enemy in the office and your job is on the line then.. well I have to...

can you see that we are wishy washy? Circumstances demand flexibility and reality demands something else. But who studies this stuff?

The military does. In Rainbow 6 this crack military team practices constantly for any possible scenario. Police practice regularly to keep the shooting up and to recognise the good guys from the bad. See Clint in Magnum Force the shooting competition and practice set is amazing. I have a lot admiration for what these agencies have to go through, practice and know.

Oh yes stages of 'knowing'
1 hear about a subject
2 Read about it get familiar with it
3 Study the subject get more familiar with it.
4 Practice the subject - get some basic skill
5 Gain better skill levels with more practice
6 Gain Mastery with more practice and real life application
7 teach others

we do a great disservice to our High School Grads to give them a diploma for only reading, and becoming familiar with subjects with out any practice, skill, nor mastery demonstrated.

Now the belief is instilled in them that they "KNOW ' this and they don't.

lets say it this way Rules:

We have to have guidelines
One way a Yogi perishes is by keep strict vows...

lets say he takes the vow:
I will do no harm - I will offend no one.

And he takes the vow:
I will eat only vegetarian food not killing for meat.

He accepts an invitation to go Christmas dinner with a respected group of friends.
Upon discovering the Hostess has made great pains to raise her beef, grass feed it,
slaughter it with honor and prayers, and will be highly offended if her guest don't eat it....

What will the Yogi do? He now has to violate at least one of his vows...

Which one?

Well like the great practical Master Yogi Swami Shivananda observed:
One perishes not by what goes into ones mouth but by what comes out of it...

So flexibility is needed ~ at the correct time.

At other times strength is needed.

If your job is quality control and you let poor quality products through manufactured by your fiend who will loose their job if discovered again.... and you make vital parts for aircraft navigation? who do you hurt? the friend or the thousands whose lives depend on your companies parts?

You simple have to study this situation and get it straight in your mind and heart.

This is why these are called foundational principals why in Yoga this is step # 1

Cause no harm.
Be Honest.
and a few more more we will look at.

lets look at integrity and what does this mean? I feel to most Ladies I have heard define this it means that a man won't look at another lady or as Jesus said "I say if you have committed adultery in your heart, you have already committed adultery" Yes purity is a high state indeed...
but one must work slowly in this direction if that is the desired goal.

Integrity means so much more than fidelity.

lets look at the definition of integrity in concrete -- If you pour a concrete floor in skyscraper,
that concrete has to hold a load of so many pounds per square foot equally everywhere on the floor - or trouble.

The aircraft is only as good as the weakest part, a team as its weakest member, a car as good as its driver.

A yogi with out these foundational principles in place and understood and mastered will not reach his or her goal...there will be to many distractions.

So if you beat yourself up = you will fail,
if you fail to discipline yourself = you will fail
When an ice skaters falls down in the Olympics = get up and keep on skating
If you fail to get up = you will fail
If you fail to try you will fail
Quit to early = fail
Over do the activity = you will fail

Practice makes perfect
Too Much practice you become obsessed with practice.

So the middle way is balance

make a little progress daily.

Cheery Day
Many thoughts

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