Australian Mythology

You can also harm another person and yourself through the same action.

Nothing exists as a completely separate segment. We are parts of one living system.

A healthy system is built on reciprocity.

You have something I need.
I have something you need.
We exchange, cooperate and support the whole.

Our bodies work in the same way. Trillions of microorganisms live within us. Many receive a place to live, while helping the body digest food, produce necessary substances and maintain the entire biological system.

Each part receives—but each part also contributes.

A parasitic relationship works differently. It takes from its host without maintaining the source that supports it. If this continues without limits, the host is damaged—and eventually the parasite also loses the system on which it depends.

Civilisations can make the same mistake.

When people create artificial divisions, cooperation disappears. One group makes decisions. Another group carries the cost. Those who benefit become separated from the consequences of their actions.

This is where Bafazone begins.

Law should connect freedom with responsibility. If law protects authority but no longer protects society, people lose trust. When trust disappears, society begins to divide, and eventually people may try to take the law into their own hands.

Freedom without consequences is not freedom.

It is anarchy.

Every new day gives us the same choice:

Will I contribute to the system that supports me?

Or will I take from it while leaving the cost to somebody else?

Every human being has an internal service manual. Pain is often a signal that something within the system has been harmed. It does not automatically tell us who is right, but it tells us to stop, examine the cause and learn.

The first instruction in the human service manual is simple:

WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?

NEVER HARM THE OBJECT OF YOUR LOVE.

If humanity is one living system, the object of our love cannot be limited to one person, one family or one group.

When we harm another part of the whole, we also harm the system that keeps us alive.

We can harm others.

We can harm ourselves.

And very often, we do both at the same time.