The Decrees
DECREE #1: Wrong No One What does it mean to wrong someone? Doesn’t it ultimately mean that our behavior towards them offends them, and causes them to FEEL a DESTRUCTIVE EMOTION toward us, whether resentment, anger or hatred? But what behaviors do we enact that trigger these destructive emotions or responses in others? And more importantly: How can we train ourselves to stop them, and thus short-circuit the ill-will they are likely going to project onto us, which would otherwise have been the cause of disharmony with them? For isn’t it true that if we DON’T trigger such destructive emotions in others, peace and harmony will abide in our relationships with them as a natural result ? But if we DO trigger them, won’t we incite silent resentment and bitterness in the recipient that may very well come out later to our detriment, or else they get upset and start getting aggressive and argumentative with us? So the aim of this work then is to eliminate all our the behavio...