JAVANESE ETHICS

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• To be honest, not to cheat, ready to help others.
  To well behave by avoiding mo limo (5 bad conducts in Javanese language starting with mo); Main - gambling; Madon - commit adultery; Mabuk - excessive alcoholic drinking; Madat - using opium, narcotics, etc; Maling - stealing. Needless to say that killing & cruelty must be avoided too.
• To do a correct behavior avoiding wrong doings to protect a good reputation, so that someone should not feel isin (to feel ashamed). To feel "isin" due to bad conduct for a Javanese is shameful, it is losing honor.
• To maintain harmony (rukun), free of conflicts in the family, the neighborhood, the village, the country & the world. The harmonious relation between men - is important. Factually when, there is a ruin in life of human beings, it is due to irresponsible people. Only a very small part was due to disturbance by animals and/or spirits.
  A popular proverb says:
  Rukun agawe santoso means rukun makes us strong.
• To be patient (sabar), to be able to do self-control.
• To accept his fate consciously & not to envy to the other's success (nrimo)
• Don't be selfish, to act only for his own interest. Sepi ing pamrih (free of self interest). Sepi ing pamrih, rame' ing gawe, which means in a broader sense: free of self interest, be always ready to work hard for the society and the welfare of the world.
  (rame >< sepi = (ready to work) hard/seriously, gawe = work or to organize parties such as wedding party etc.
  • To be honest, not to cheat, ready to help others.
    To well behave by avoiding mo limo (5 bad conducts in Javanese language starting with mo); Main - gambling; Madon - commit adultery; Mabuk - excessive alcoholic drinking; Madat - using opium, narcotics, etc; Maling - stealing. Needless to say that killing & cruelty must be avoided too.
  • To do a correct behavior avoiding wrong doings to protect a good reputation, so that someone should not feel isin (to feel ashamed). To feel "isin" due to bad conduct for a Javanese is shameful, it is losing honor.
  • To maintain harmony (rukun), free of conflicts in the family, the neighborhood, the village, the country & the world. The harmonious relation between men - is important. Factually when, there is a ruin in life of human beings, it is due to irresponsible people. Only a very small part was due to disturbance by animals and/or spirits.
    A popular proverb says:
    Rukun agawe santoso means rukun makes us strong.
  • To be patient (sabar), to be able to do self-control.
  • To accept his fate consciously & not to envy to the other's success (nrimo)
  • Don't be selfish, to act only for his own interest. Sepi ing pamrih (free of self interest). Sepi ing pamrih, rame' ing gawe, which means in a broader sense: free of self interest, be always ready to work hard for the society and the welfare of the world.
    (rame >< sepi = (ready to work) hard/seriously, gawe = work or to organize parties such as wedding party etc.