I read -
Truthfulness means authenticity - to be true, not to be false, not to use masks. Whatsoever is your real face, show it at whatever the cost.
To be authentic means to remain true to your own being. How to remain true? 3 things to be remembered:
1. Never listen to anybody, what they tell you to be. Always listen to your inner voice, what you would like to be; otherwise your whole life will be wasted.
Do not allow others to manipulate and control you.
2. Never wear a mask. Be true whatsoever the cost.
If you are angry, be angry. It is risky, but dont smile because that is being untrue. You have been taught that when you are angry, smile, but then your smile becomes false a mask - just an excercie of the lips and nothing else. The heart full of anger, poison, and the lips smiling; you become a false phenomenon. Then, when you really want to smile you cannot.
When you want to be angry, be angry. Nothing is wrong in being angry. If you want to laugh, laugh. Nothing is wrong in laughing loudly.
3. Always remain in present because all falseness enter either from the past of from the future.
That which has passed has passed. Dont bother about it and dont carry it as a burden; otherwise it will not allow you to be authentic to the present. Dont unnecessarily be bothered about the future, otherwise that will come into the present and destroy it."
Enlightened Buddha
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1 comment:
Agree to most of what is said would just like to add on.
1. Yes one should not allow others to manipulate, but one can definitely pay heed to what some say, at times they would have a point or two or a better angle of looking and handling things which one would not have thought of.
Yes we should listen to our inner voice but more importantly we should listen to the right voice...
After giving due considerations to the above(one's inner voice, other's thoughts/suggestions) one should make a final call.
So the suggestions can be taken but the final decision should be of oneself.
Somewhere on top u wanted to know the difference between stubborn and determined, if things do not work out or succeed then ur thought would lean towards stubborness whereas mine would lean towards a more sober determined stand.
But if things click then your thought would be acclaimed as determined.
2. Mask - nothing to say just plainly agree.
Do not know what to say - whether i think like u or u like me on this masking thing we r on the same plane of thought - be ur true urself. I would just say we both think the same on this....
On Anger -- show, express ur anger or disgust but then do not land doing or saying things which would hurt others.
3. Even truth can enter from the past. The past needs to be a lesson and not a burden, then it becomes a truth. We need to learn from the past and carry forward those lessons to the future so that in future we do not commit similar mistakes i.e do not make our future one more burden.
But yes what has passed has passed - "things done can never be undone".... and unnecessarily thinking of the future spoils the present.
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