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Conduct is comprised of principles which help you conduct your life, to go towards that awareness of selfexperience.
Now from this awareness grows the feeling of reverence for life, ahimsa. Himsa means to kill, to cause pain to any life, or to separate life from the body. Any harm which is done with thoughts, words, or action is himsa. Ahimsa means no harm is done in thoughts, words or action. When one starts feeling this ahimsa, one starts living with life. When you watch in a tranquil state, you see that you do not want to be hurt. And then you know, "if I do not want to be hurt, no one wants to be hurt." So you do not want to cause any violence or himsa to yourself or to anyone else. But it starts from here; to avoid violence to yourself you don't do violence to others. What you see inside yourself, you see outside in all living forms.
My father used to give the example of a match. A match must first burn itself in order to burn anything else. Violence is the same way. Before we do any harm to others, we do first harm to ourselves. So whenever we try to hurt any other form of life, in thought, word or deed, we will hurt ourselves first. Because we do not want to harm our consciousness, we work to avoid doing any harm to anyone else.
Overcoming Anger
Any time you become angry with somebody, watch yourself. You will realize this. "Becoming angry I have
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