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Inculcating
Integrity and Moral Values
Duration: 2 days |
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Just as locks are respected by and therefore meant only for nice people, the rules, regulations, policies and norms are cared for only by a bunch of few sincere people in the organizations. The rules, regulations, policies, safeguards and norms are backfiring every where all over the world in proportion to the energy we put into this wrongheaded attempt to control people. Moreover, what is it that is going to ensure that law enforcers are really going to be more ethical than the ones whom they are supposed to check? The bees keep banging their heads against the windowpane in order to get out. It never occurs to them that they can easily get out through the door that is ajar only a few feet away. We too go on making new and even stricter rules, regulations, policies, safeguards and norms in the vain hope that they may work this time. It never occurs to us that our failures are asking us to breakaway from the very philosophy of distrusting and controlling people. We need to create conditions that make distrusting others unnecessary and the need to control them futile. Have you ever seen how people cooperate and become helpful to each other during emergencies—especially when they realize that no external help is ever going to come and they have to do the needful themselves. This happens because during such times the individual and collective goals fulfill one another. Individuals can see their personal goals can be fulfilled only when they contribute their best to the whole. Their selfish interest lies in making the team win. They know that whatever they do against or for the whole is going to come back to them. The solution to erosion of moral values is not stricter or comprehensive laws and stricter punishments. The solution lies in making individuals realize the fact (and it indeed is a fact—modern physics confirms it) that the same laws that hold good in emergencies, hold good even in normal times. The workshop takes stock of participants’ subtle beliefs and makes them see that how the incongruity of their beliefs with the timeless principles has been affecting their interests adversely. It re-establishes the truth of oneness we are all a part of, and instal the laws that we seem to follow only in an ‘emergency’ as a norm for our moment to moment behaviour. We cannot break the natural laws; we can only break ourselves against them. And we can dare to break any natural law or work against the common good only when we fail to be awake to this truth. A corrupt man needs to be empathized with and educated just as a cancer patient needs to be empathized with and educated so as to inspire and help him to work towards his own recovery. A child never used to wash his hands even though his father had punished him many times for this reason. However he changed overnight when his uncle, a chemist, showed him through a video film how the microorganisms (the ones he had earlier seen moving on his own palms under a microscope) cause the most dreaded diseases. The participants change overnight when they see like this child through this workshop how their faulty beliefs are the very source of their problems and miseries. Contents:
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