Setting up failure

When you set up rules, commandments and laws to regulate behavior you are setting up failure. The mind and ego cannot produce virtue either through imagination or commanding it. Virtue is a fruit of an awakened heart and not the result of rules and regulations. You do not make people better through fear and intimidation; you make them frustrated and angry. You entice them to break the rules, commandments and laws that you seek to govern them by.

The mind and ego can be trained to a degree, but who a person is will drive them eventually. Unconsciousness compels us to behave a certain way until we are more aware of the goodness within us. Till that time all of us will stumble, fall and crawl through the personal pain of our unconscious and the judgments that rules, commandments and laws place upon us.