Suppression
Dont hurt
Category: Actions
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description

One big block to any form of spiritual experience is our Memory. I have provided a number of techniques that help to simplify Memory – a sort of defrag and clear out of the database! but there is really not a lot of point in doing a defrag if we carry on filling it up with rubbish and one of the most persistent and pernicious ways of adding to the rubbish is by hurting people, our fellow creatures and our planet.
Many religions tend to phrase this as ‘love’ your neighbour. But this has been so misinterpreted that it has become meaningless. People don’t seem to understand love, but they do understand hurt. So I think it is better to say Don’t hurt.
So you are using a preventative strategy by avoiding anything that will give you bad memories. Remember that if you have a Memory full of the bad things you have done, full of the past hurts done, then the chance of achieving any form of spiritual experience is virtually nil.
Conscience is a remarkable thing, it affects even the apparently most hardened person eventually and hurts them, things have a habit of rebounding on the perpetrator. A selfless person whose life is dedicated to not hurting is usually free of fear and worry.
Background

This technique is embodied in just about every religion, but as I have said it is expressed as a positive – love –rather than the way I have phrased it.
Interestingly enough Rabbi Hillel in the Talmud said that the whole of Jewish law can be summed up with the words DON'T HURT.
“That which is hateful unto thee do not do unto thy neighbour. This is the whole of the Torah”.
Within the Hindu religion it is embodied within the following main concepts
- Ahimsa – do not cause pain to anything whether this is a person or animal. And in this respect do not hurt physically nor hurt verbally. If you hurt no one, no one will generally want to hurt you and you can lose fear, concerns and worries.
- Satya – tell the truth. If you lie you have to remember the lie, the truth requires no remembering, so you are free of the worry of the need to remember. Lies usually hurt someone, so if you lie, you break the first rule.
- Asteya - non stealing. If you take something from someone or something you hurt them. If they have worked hard to obtain this thing, or have grown to care about it then by stealing it from them you have hurt them. So you break the first rule – Don't hurt. This applies to all forms of theft – the theft of a person's wife or husband, their possessions, their job, their self-respect, their peace of mind. It applies to subtle forms of theft such as money laundering or stock market manipulation or dodgy mortgage manipulation. If you can trace a line of action - a flow of activity - that leads to hurt, you have broken the first law.
- Brahmacharya – continence or loyalty or trustworthiness. Not hurting by one's actions, saying one thing and doing another, first doing one thing and then changing your mind and doing something else thus hurting someone. Being selfless by being loyal.

The concept is embodied in the so called “Golden Rule” which states that
- One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself – do as you would be done by
- One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated.
The principle is to be found in the writings of Confucius (551–479 BCE) . It is a fundamental principle of Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism, the Sikh religion and Zoroastrianism. It was embodied in Ancient Egyptian beliefs, for example, a Late Period (c. 664 BCE – 323 BCE) papyrus states: "That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another’
Plato and numerous other Greek philosophers also expressed exactly the same ideas, for example
"...it has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere." - Socrates, in Plato's Republic.

We have come to accept that all our major religions embody this principle as a matter of course. But what may not be realised is that exactly the same approach was used by numerous indigenous societies long before they ever came into contact with the west.
There was little in the Native American Indian civilisation, for example, that equated to the vast panoply of moral rules that was eventually developed by the Christian, Islamic or Judaic countries, in the end their main rules were simply DON'T HURT and LOVE.
The Kahuna system employed exactly the same principles, so did Siberian shamanism and the culture of the Australian Aborigine.
Method
The way to learn this is to learn the technique of the Cause effect chart. In this chart we start off with the action we intend to take, and then we work forward and ask the question and 'what might happen next?' Keep on asking the question, building up a chart of causes and effects, until you can go no further. Then look at the result. Does this hurt?
Some examples might help. Something simple first:
Next example, all too real……….
I think you get the idea.
It is noticeable that not being able to do this is a sign of a person with very little intellect – you are branding yourself as a thicky – a person of extreme stupidity - if you are not able to follow the chain, so be prepared to face a lot of Humiliation in your life and failure – always good for the soul.
How it works

It may be helpful to have the Model of the Mind open to enable you to see the definitions in context.
The generic description of How spiritual experience works may also be helpful.
By not hurting you in effect suppress the activity from Memory. By stilling the chattering Memory you still the chattering Will and by stilling the chattering Will, the Composer can take over.
Advantages
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It works
- It is free
- It is legal
- The road to nirvana
Disadvantages
Can't think of any.
Observations
One very good example of a man who practised this the whole of his life was Michael Faraday, then there is Jesus, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Confucius, Einstein, .................. get the idea? All the most revered people in the history of humanity, whether scientists, philosophers or geniuses, practised this.
Some examples
Related observations
Healing observations
- Catches, Pete - Interview Richard Erdoes - Healing 000706
- Dr Brigham witnesses healing using Lomilomi 000710
- James - James 5 verses 1 to 20 025901
- Jesus - Luke 13 - A Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath 001013
- Jesus - Luke 18 - Healing the blind beggar of Jericho 013438
- Jesus - Luke 4 - In Simon's house 013424
- Jesus - Luke 5 - Heals leprosy 013426
- Jesus - Luke 6 - Heals a withered hand 013427
- Jesus - Luke 6 - Heals the multitude 013428
- Jesus - Luke 7 - Healing and giving sight to the blind 013432
- Jesus - Luke 7 - Healing the Centurion's servant 013430
- Jesus - Luke 7 - Raises the dead 013431
- Jesus - Luke 8 - Healing an 'issue of blood' 013434
- Jesus - Mark 5 - And Jairus' daughter 005941
- Jesus - Matthew 9 - And the power of forgiveness 001399
- Jesus - Wikipedia - Examples of expunging demons 003978
- Jesus - Wikipedia - Examples of healing 003977
- Kahuna - Lomilomi and Kundalini 000711
- Macmillan cures a bunion 004402
- Macmillan cures a burn 004403
- Macmillan cures a dislocated cartilege 004406
- Macmillan cures arthritis 004408
- Macmillan cures boils 004407
- Macmillan first healing attempt 004401
- Macmillan heals a tubercular joint 004410
- Macmillan helps a stroke victim 004404
- Macmillan treats tuberculosis 004412
- Macmillan's healing routine 004414
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - A state of grace 016958
Hallucination
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - A truly truly special experience 005147
- Macmillan smells perfume 004411
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - Good Hope 016947
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - The functions of plants 013791
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Sylphs 002574
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - The spirits of minerals, viruses and bacteria 001302
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- 101 Zen stones - Ga San 013142
- 101 Zen stones - No loving kindness 016338
- Aeschylus - Agamemnon - The plant is like the seed, Hurt returns 011856
- Appalachian Spring: Variations on a Shaker Melody - Aaron Copland 017046
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - How to know if you have achieved annihilation 016361
- Bach, Dr Edward - Love conquers all 011138
- Bach, Dr Edward - The Unity of the World 011137
- Bhagavad Gita - No one who does good treads an evil path 004790
- Bhagavad Gita - Without hatred for any creature 013630
- Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy - This is why among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred 003150
- Boucher - Venus and Vulcan 007544
- Buddha - The Dhammapada - Danda-vago 013147
- Buddha - The Dhammapada - Yamaka-vaggo 013149
- Chuang Tzu - The ruler of the southern oceans 013145
- Comenius - Didactica Magna - Teach morality as a core subject 020672
- Confucius - Quote - When two people become one in their hearts 000693
- Confucius - The Analects - Wei Zheng 02 013287
- Confucius - The Doctrine of the Mean - 04 013297
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - A truly truly special experience 005147
- Dolly Parton - Raven Dove 012028
- Dr T Levin - Siberian shamanism - Sayan 000941
- Edison, Thomas - Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine per cent perspiration 006332
- Epictetus - The Enchiridion - 01 013333
- Epictetus - The Enchiridion - 29, 30, 31 013351
- Eusevgny Faygdish – Mystic Cosmos - Black and white as a metaphor 013565
- Faraday, Michael - Defining the nature of electromagnetic forces while in a state of intuitive vision 004435
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Sin 011758
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The celebration of diversity 011750
- Gasan Jōseki - from 101 Zen stones - Killing 016428
- Gladstone, William Ewart - Don’t hurt - Political franchise only for those who do not hurt 026863
- Gladstone, William Ewart - Don’t hurt - Telling the truth 026865
- Gnostic Gospels - Judas 002724
- Goldsmith, Oliver - The Deserted Village 023092
- Huxley, Thomas - The doctrine that God is in the world 013144
- Hyangga of Korea – 08 Eleven Poems on the Ten Vows of the Universally Worthy Bodhisattva - Great Master Kyunyo 027019
- Hyangga of Korea – 09 Eleven Poems on the Ten Vows of the Universally Worthy Bodhisattva - Great Master Kyunyo 027020
- Hyangga of Korea – 10 Eleven Poems on the Ten Vows of the Universally Worthy Bodhisattva - Great Master Kyunyo 027021
- I Ching 000936
- Isaiah 33 006643
- Jacolliot, Louis - Occult Science in India - The Law of the Lotus 024557
- Jainism - Acaranga Sutra 000940
- Jainism - Namōkāra mantra 017076
- Jainism - The Syādvāda 017077
- James - James 1 verses 1 to 27 025897
- James - James 2 verses 1 to 26 025898
- James - James 3 verses 1 to 18 025899
- James - James 4 verses 1 to 17 025900
- James - James 5 verses 1 to 20 025901
- Jesus - John 14 - In my Father's house are many mansions 004466
- Jesus - John 14 - Spirit helpers 004468
- Jesus - John 5 & 6 - On God 003981
- Jesus - Luke 10 - Love your neighbour as you would yourself 000938
- Jesus - Luke 17 - Where is heaven? 014158
- Jesus - Luke 6 - Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you 013429
- Jesus - Mark 8 - For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul 013435
- Jesus - Matthew 13 - Grain of mustard seed 001818
- Jesus - Matthew 13 - On parables 003171
- Jesus - Matthew 18 - Except ye be converted, and become as little children 000903
- Jesus - Matthew 5 : 01 - Blessed are the poor in spirit 013618
- Jesus - Matthew 5 : 38 - Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you 013616
- Jesus - Matthew 7 - The Narrow and Wide Gates 004467
- Jesus - Matthew 7:21 - Why are we here 000578
- Jesus - The Gospel of Judas - Archons 002716
- Jesus - The Gospel of Mary Magdalene - And the aeons 003980
- Jesus - The Gospels - Love your enemies 002693
- Jesus - The Sophia of Jesus Christ - Aeons and angels 002788
- Jesus - The Sophia of Jesus Christ - And the aeons 002804
- Jesus - The Sophia of Jesus Christ - He meditated with his bride Sophia 002731
- Kālāma Sutta, the – Buddha – The Four solaces 028483
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat – The Art of Being and Becoming - On minding your own business 013576
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat – The Art of Being and Becoming - The best form of love 013575
- Louis Jacolliot - The Bible in India - 06 The Story of Krishna: Nichdali and Sarasvati 024736
- Louis Jacolliot - The Bible in India - The Thoughts and maxims of Krishna 024735
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 16 The prayer to the gods 011677
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 10 The Four Pendentives 4 024454
- Moitessier, Bernard - Tamata and the Alliance - The truck and the abyss 018569
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - A state of grace 016958
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - Good Hope 016947
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - I am fed up with false gods 016959
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - The Fairy Tern 016960
- Native American Wisdom - Oren Lyons - The abuse of power 003108
- Neiye - Verse 06 027476
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Discourse 02 026007
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Third Discourse 01 On the changing world 026337
- Observing vessels 016751
- Qu’ran - Don’t hurt - Surah Al An’am 027655
- Ramsay Smith - Australian Aborigine - Sayings and customs 000942
- Reid, Christopher - It's a terrifying gift being able to make you cry 013612
- Rolling Thunder - Beyond Biofeedback by Drs Elmer and Alyce Green – Metaphysical beliefs 027363
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - Do you want to enter paradise 013190
- Ruskin, John - Extracts from Letters to the Clergy 005132
- Ruskin, John - Extracts from Letters to the Clergy 005131
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 01 – Kamsa’s attempt on his sister’s life 024743
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 11, Chapter 09 – Reducing conflict 024750
- Shah, Idries - A Perfumed Scorpion - Human well-being is the minimum, not the maximum, duty of humanity 008291
- Shakers - If Ye Love Not Each Other 017049
- Steiner, Rudolf - Elemental Spirits and the Plant World 000914
- Steiner, Rudolf - Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs and Salamanders 002563
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - Abide in calm single mindedness 002696
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - Developing an active inner life 001269
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - Higher spirit 013788
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - Inner speech 013789
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Architecture, design, function and form 000916
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Cycles of time 003960
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Lunar Pitris 000915
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - On creation and destruction 013751
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Perception and evolution 000925
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - The forces of Nature 003958
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - The misuse of power 000923
- Steiner, Rudolf - Redemption and the Elementals [1909] - Fire 002565
- Steiner, Rudolf - Redemption and the Elementals [1909] - The Elements 013753
- Steiner, Rudolf - The disembodied souls who are too good for the bodies of a subordinate order and for the other bodies too bad 002566
- Steiner, Rudolf - The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone 1906 003959
- Steiner, Rudolf - The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone 1906 000918
- Tallis, Thomas - If ye love me 005871
- Tallis, Thomas - Lamentations 005870
- Tallis, Thomas - Miserere Nostri 012157
- Tallis, Thomas - Spem in Alium 005868
- The Complete Book of Principal Contents of Human Life and Temperament: Hen anthology 016749
- The Inner Mental Method of reaching the Heavenly Immortality through Golden Elixir 016747
- The Kama sutra – 06 The best places to live [for the purposes of attracting women] 018694
- The Kama sutra – 07 On obtaining sexual vigour and health 018695
- The Kama sutra – 11 Getting to know each other 018699
- The Lotus Sutra - 19 The Bodhisattva Never Disparaging - 1 The bodhisattva Never Disparaging bore all this with patience 023909
- The Means of achieving spiritual experience - Shaivism – 07 The methods of the ‘Bhakta’ 022509
- The Means of achieving spiritual experience - Shaivism – 12 Don’t hurt and compassion 022584
- The Sutra of Hui-Neng - This truth is to be lived 013146
- Thoreau, Henry D - Misc quote - Be not simply good 001849
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - An ocean of subtle Intelligences 001848
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Explore thyself 001845
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Perhaps he hears a different drummer 001850
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Simplification as a key to life 001844
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - The landscape of soul 001851
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - The Laws of Nature 001846
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - The reptile in us 001843
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in 001852
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - What is man but a mass of thawing clay 004062
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Where is heaven? 001847
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Affability 022822
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 from Forbearance 022828
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 from Kindliness 022832
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 from Non Killing 022849
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 from Right Conduct 022827
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 from Self-control 022825
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 from Social Obligation 022831
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 from Truthfulness 022835
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Impartiality 022824
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Not Hurting Others 022848
- Tirrukural, the - Book 2 from Character 022859
- Trine, R W - In tune with the Infinite - Infinite love 014611
- Twain, Mark - On vivisection 015801
- Tzu, Lao - Does anyone want to take the world 013141
- Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis 005869
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler - Voice of the Voiceless 016399
- Wizard of Oz - Somewhere over the rainbow 002044
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book II - Sutras 01 to 55 008320
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Milk 022414
Out of time
- Jesus - John 3 - Jesus Teaches Nicodemus 004132
- Jesus - The Gospel of Judas - Visits a noble, sacred people beyond this world 002408
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Beyond the Deserts 016994
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Oceans like Air 016999
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - The Earth band 000917
- Wesley, John - Journal 1739 - extract on rebirth 004138
- Wizard of Oz - Somewhere over the rainbow 002044
Enlightenment
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - How to know if you have achieved annihilation 016361
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Purification 011553
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - A truly truly special experience 005147
- Kahuna - Lomilomi and Kundalini 000711
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - A state of grace 016958
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - Good Hope 016947
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Annihilating everything but Him 016991
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Carress and removal of doubts 017015
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – I am yours 017019
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – In the form of Adam 017000
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Scattered jewels 016992
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Swimming in the Oceans 017021
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Tasting Union 016996
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Attack of Crashing Oceans 016988
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The attack of the Saints 016989
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Demand for Union 016990
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Face of God 016993
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Orchard 016998
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Station of Annihilation 017020
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - Inner speech 013789
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - The understanding of the ecstatic 013798
In time
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - A truly truly special experience 005147
- Grimble, Sir Arthur - Becomes the victim of a death prayer 010873
- Kahuna - Morals and the Death Prayer 000937
- Macmillan reads perceptions 004409
- Macmillan smells perfume 004411
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - The Fairy Tern 016960
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Beyond the World of Existence 017022
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Carress and removal of doubts 017015
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Dancing like a Drunkard 016995
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Shower of Pearls 017017
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Swimming in the Oceans 017021
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Attack of Crashing Oceans 016988
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The attack of the Saints 016989
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Lion of Oneness 017023
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Music of the Spheres 016997
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Ranks of Angels 017014
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Stilling of the rain 016987
- Steiner, Rudolf - Elemental Beings of Earth and Water [3/4/1912] lecture notes 013748
- Steiner, Rudolf - Elemental Spirits and the Plant World 000914
- Steiner, Rudolf - Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs and Salamanders 002563
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - Inner speech 013789
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - The functions of plants 013791
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - The understanding of the ecstatic 013798
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Animals have souls 013752
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Fire spirits 013750
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - How flowers grow 013749
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Lunar Pitris 000915
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Sylphs 002574
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - The Earth band 000917
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - The spirits of minerals, viruses and bacteria 001302
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Thoughts 013755
- Steiner, Rudolf - Phantoms Spectres and Demons 000966
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in 001852
- Wizard of Oz - Somewhere over the rainbow 002044
Prophecy
Environmental Influence
- Flames of a butter lamp 002064
- Grimble, Sir Arthur - Becomes the victim of a death prayer 010873
- Jesus - John 6 - Walking on water 003979
- Jesus - Luke 5 - Summoning fishes 013425
- Jesus - Luke 7 - Raises the dead 013431
- Jesus - Luke 8 - Calming the storm 013433
- Jesus - Mark 5 - And Jairus' daughter 005941
- Kahuna - Morals and the Death Prayer 000937
- Moitessier, Bernard – The Long Way - The Fairy Tern 016960
- Sir Arthur Grimble - And the Magic of Kindness 010878