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A ten year old Afghan girl was going to be sold to an old Afghan man whose former wives were all mysteriously dead or had disappeared... A Morrocan girl commited suicide when she was to be given in marriage to the man who raped and violated her...
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Copper rule no 3 : Do nothing which will make your conscience feel guilty

This incident happened while I was travelling to a Suluk session in France. The plane was late out from Oslo, and I reached Paris airport, while the sun was setting over Paris.
I had still a long way to go, and it was getting dark as I entered the crowded Montparnasse railway station. A long line was waiting in front of the ticket office, and the next train to Epernon was ready to leave. I skipped the formalities, and jumped on the train.... better be caught in a ticket control, than walking alone in the dark lanes of Epernon on a late Friday evening, I thought....What I had not taken into account, was my conscience. Brought up to obey society's rules, what happened next, taught me how my heart may respond to my mind.
When the railway conductors entered our compartment, my heart started beating so hard I could hear it. Then my mind started making up all kinds of stories about how this would end in the most dramatic way!! I breathed deeply to calm my agitated heart, and started a conversation in my mind to justify that I was in my right to be a stowaway - just then and there :-)
Luckily the conductors passed without asking for my ticket, and I reached Epernon and the other Parvanas with a calm heart and a clear conscience

At Suluk I contemplated the 6th copper rule, together with the wise sufi Ischtar, but that is another story