Commandments are moral injunctions, issued by a higher authority, often by the founder of a religion. Of these, the Ten Commandments of Judeo-Christianity are the most famous. Recently some debates arose in the U.S. as to whether they should be displayed in public places like schools.
Last night I had a dream in which I formulated for my own guidance a set of commandments. This morning I am writing them down to share with others:
FIVE THOU SHALT NOTS
1 Thou Shalt Not consciously hurt or harm another human being.
2 Thou shalt not disrespect or ridicule another person’s non-hurting religious beliefs.
3 Thou shalt nor mistreat in words, action, or thought a fellow human being on the basis of the person’s race, religion, language, nationality, or skin-color, nor make or accept any derogatory generalization on such basis..
4 Thou shalt not ignore a hungry person’s appeal for food and drink.
5 Thou shalt not imagine your own language or religion, culture of nation to be superior to any other.
FIVE THOU SHALTS
1 Thou shalt say a word of kindness and do an act of kindness everyday to at least one person every day
2 Thou shalt learn everyday something positive about another people, culture or religion.
3 Thou shalt contribute each week any amount, small or big, to some chartable cause.
4 Thou shalt wish, hope, or pray everyday for the elimination of hunger and suffering and for Peace in the world.
5 Thou shalt read every day a poem of a passage from any great author from an alien culture, at least in translation.
OPTIONAL
Thou shall explore every night the properties of any random number under ten thousand that comes to your mind before you go to sleep.
V. V. Raman
June 25 2024
Spurts of Thought 