Self-Complacency

In any program and religion that has lots of rules, people who keep to the rules can become a bit complacent.  Keep the rules and regulations and you will be on the inside, the correct side.  But this can lead to complacency because you are not so open to something new, different, a change.  Traditionalists want things always to be the same as they are.  Change in itself is not necessarily good either.  But I notice that when Buddha, Moses and Jesus came along, the rules and regs people, government and religious officials, were not so able to get on board.  They ignored or fought the newness.  Recovery programs have what is called a group conscience.  When change is proposed, the group talks it over, trusting that their higher power will make known what to do.  To simply say, “We never do it that way,” or “We don’t do that,” without talking it over, is to fall into “self-complacency.”