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Code of Conduct. The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules For Living. May 6, 2011 | 42 Comments » | Topics: Life, List At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Here they are. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. Truisms. 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind. Dokkōdō. The "Dokkōdō" [ (Japanese: 独行道?)

Dokkōdō

; "The Path of Aloneness", "The Way to Go Forth Alone", or "The Way of Walking Alone"] is a short work written by Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵) a week before he died in 1645. It consists of either nineteen or twenty-one precepts; precepts 4 and 20 are omitted from the former version. "Dokkodo" was largely composed on the occasion of Musashi giving away his possessions in preparation for death, and was dedicated to his favorite disciple, Terao Magonojō (to whom the earlier Go rin no sho [The Book of Five Rings] had also been dedicated), who took them to heart.

"Dokkōdō" expresses a stringent, honest, and ascetic view of life. Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume...