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Sri Ramana Maharshi once remarked that you need to watch your "pernicious habits" because the mind is a little like a potent garden, it is open to everything, the seed of a beautiful flower can be grown, but so can weed. This remark was made many decades ago, but modern neurological research would verify this insight. Thoughts, actions and habits literally form grooves in your brain, the more power to give to it, the harder it will be to overwrite them at a later stage.

You don't really need any spiritual or cultural taboos to foster right-minded thinking and living. All you need is your common sense and the sensitivity to the reactions of your soul sisters and brothers. You will recognize when you are moving in the wrong direction yourself, like the gardener cannot help noticing when weeds grows. Your spiritual path is your destination and every u-turn on that road has to be corrected with yet another u-turn as God repeatedly reminds us in Neale Walsch's "Conversations with God". Or to go back to the garden analogy, once you had to rip out the weed yourself, you will put down twice as much mulch when the next planting season starts.

Spiritual and cultural taboos may be necessary to table certain dark tendencies for a while, but ultimately you will have to face them head-on, otherwise you would always fear that somebody opens Pandora's box.