Kadamapa Precepts 14

"Geshe Gon-pa-pa said, "Omniscience is founded on merit and wisdom. Merit and wisdom are founded on Bodhi-mind. Bodhi-mind is founded on love and compassion. The precepts of all these are founded on the Six Transcendences.
"Further, Giving is founded on nonattachment. Moral practice is founded on reliance on spiritual friends. Patience is founded on humility. Effort is founded on meditation on death. Meditation is founded on dwelling in isolation. Wisdom is founded on mindfulness. Blessings are founded on your faith and respect for the Lama and the Three Jewels. Siddhis are founded on vows and obligations. Excellence is founded on hearing, thinking, and meditating. Being of service to others is founded on desirelessness. The progress of self and others is founded on meditation and devotion." 

'Moral practice is founded on reliance on spiritual friends'. How is this so, do you think? Moral practice meaning sila, the second of the Six Paramitas.
Yes, right, you are influenced by the company that you keep. 
'Patience is founded on humility'. Humility here doesn't mean the rather self conscious, self abasement that sometimes goes under this name, but just a quite objective appraisal of oneself and ones importance. Neither overvaluing oneself nor undervaluing oneself. 
'Effort being founded on meditation on death'. You think you've not much time,
probably, no time to lose, no time to waste, better get on with it. Don't let death catch you napping, do it now, you may not live to do it tomorrow. 
It might be an interesting question to ask oneself. How would I spend the next twenty four hours if  I knew definitely that I was going to die at the end of it.  

'Meditation is founded on dwelling in isolation". That's pretty obvious isn't it, at least a measure of isolation, even when you sit in a room by yourself and meditate, you are isolated for the time being at least. You need a certain amount of separation. I also think, I've been thinking about this a little bit the last few months, that you need more actual space for meditation than you usually get. I think quite often we are much too crowded when we meditate together, whether we are in a shrine room or wherever we happen to be. I think if possible we have to bear this in mind at the new London Centre. If necessary have more classes for fewer people and more space. I don't think it is at all good to have people too close together.
It's just the feeling of having people too close and too much on top of you, not enough room, no space for your aura to expand, as it were. 
And I think it is really necessary for practically everybody to be on their own, completely, for some part of the day. If you have spent the night on your own then you don't mind so much being with people during the day but if all night you are in the same room with other people, even though you are dreaming, although you are asleep, you are still, subliminally aware of that. But if you are with other people all night and also with other people all day, if you are a healthy person there will be an element of strain. You need to be on your own completely, physically for part of
the day, preferably for several hours at least. 
This is a quite healthy human tendency, that you need some time to yourself, some time completely on your own or on your own with your work, or just on your own doing nothing. I think it's absolutely essential, it is a sort of mental hygiene that you should have that time and space to yourself. I think if you can't get it pressure builds up. I think this is one of the reasons why pressure builds up in the nuclear family situation, situation, where husband and wife are always together and they must get on one another's nerves, it is impossible that they shouldn't. At the same time there is no socially acceptable provision, apparently for their spending some time on their own. They are not supposed to go off on separate holidays, or not even supposed to
go off on a walk without taking the other one with them apparently, in some cases.