Some good general precepts for an ahimsa life...
Of course, this is meant to be humorous, but there is method to my madness, to wit (from top to bottom):
1. Be gentle and minimize your disruption of even the smallest part of the great web of life, which is by nature in a state of joyful unconscious being.
2. Expand with consciousness, especially in meditation, into the great expanse of the universe, which is not there, but here where you are always, and can be felt as an uncritical awareness of its presence.
3. Without clear intention, there is no purpose to everyday existence, and without that you can't reach the state where there is spontaneous harmony between you and the outside (and ultimately in principle to the dissolution of your sense of separateness from he outside in the first place); thus, if you are not acting deliberately, don't even bother trying to liberate yourself from stress and sorrow, and feel at peace and at ease with the world, because it's not going to happen.
4. Your fears are just substanceless tempests in your mind, ultimately caused by clinging to your individual selfhood and desiring things that are not under your control. Ultimately, it is about mistaking your ranging and restless thoughts and feelings with what is real, which is still and not desperate or seeking, so do not stoke your fears with unease about what's to come or what others might do to you or what you might lose. What is the future? Show me where it is? What's to fear from something that isn't, especially if you are not attached to what could be anyway?
— Gabriel Fenteany, April 25, 2016
