Rules

God’s Rules for Life

Be positive, grateful, in love, and healthy.  Do what makes you happy. Look good, and feel good.  Brush, floss, rinse - twice a day.  Early to bed, early to rise.  I enjoy things like reading, music, writing, white water rafting, magic, parkour, sushi, and sweaty exercise.  Work hard, get good grades, make lots of money, and dress for success.  A hobby is good.  If you’re bored, you’re boring.  Volunteer, like planting trees, or sending books to prisoners, or distributing vegetarian literature.  I like trivia from cards, books, online (like the J! archive).  Yoga and swimming and jumprope and dancing are all fun.  Pushups and stretching feel good.  I like staying informed with news from The Economist and NY Times.  Be prepared.  Meditation is mind-maintenance.  I think everybody should hop around different religions and experience spiritual and religious variety.  Stay curious, and use google, wikipedia, siri/alexa, and liberal use of your local library.  I like joke books, and standup comedy.  Kid energy is fun, sometimes.  I enjoy my nephews.  And getting paid to walk dogs is a total plus:  paid exercise, the dogs love me, and friendly appreciative owners.  Be good.  Eschew evil.  Do a good turn daily.  Make the world a better place.  Love one another.  Be a part of the solution, not the problem.  Make love, not war.  Be strong, fit, healthy, well, and sane.  May the force be with you.  Be good, better, best.  Strive for growth, not perfection.  But mastery, genius, and perfection are bliss, too.  Enjoy life.  To life!  L’ Chaim!  Warmth and friendship, and travel and restaurants, make life fun.  Be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.  Honesty is the best policy.  War is the art of deception.  

Ignorance, delusion, confusion, incuriosity, and credulousness, are responsible for much suffering.  Attachment and aversion, clinging and craving, anger and hatred, are the other half of the suffering equation.  Buddhism has been defined as being just alive enough to enjoy being dead.  Basic insights of this religion/philosophy are impermanence, no-self, and bliss through nirvana from meditation.  Don’t worry, be happy.  Too blessed to be stressed.  Safety and security.  Joy, happiness, cheer, bliss, contentment, satisfaction, fun, smiles, laughter, jollity, merriment, felicity, glee, elation, ecstasy, ebullience, delight, jubilation, euphoria.   Glad bags. Endorphins and oxytocin and natural highs are better than drugs like MDMA or H (ecstasy, heroin), I think.  I like my mushroom coffee.

-Jesse

Joy elation smiles satisfaction ecstasy!

Jollity ebullience safety security euphoria!

I found 'The Happiness Hypothesis' book, a gem by Jonathan Haidt, in a Little Free Library; looking forward to adding to this post's stuff with insights out of loving Haidt!

Stream and river and creek and trickle of consciousness (and couscous):  Juse and kriss-chins and moremuns and moose limbs and hin do’s and say tin nests all on the same war ship of the same D-itty, beak cuz we’re all Hugh Minhs with the same kneads and hops and de-zires.   Rabbi rabbits and abbots and easter playboy bunnies and hare krishnas and heresy.   Hip hop hapnins and holy bdsm orders and luvin’ spoonfuls.  Well, goodnite.