Are you violent?
Questionnaire for self-research according to the OIDA-therapy
While answering these questions please consult your inner voice
1. Do you feel happy when you find out that others are happy?
O Yes O No
2. Do you feel sad when you find out that others are happy?
O Yes O No
3. Do you feel that you have to do something to counteract the suffering of others if it is possible to do so?
O Yes O No
4. Do you like to see movies with violent scenes?
O Yes O No
5. Do you believe in the validity of Guantanamo?
O Yes O No
6. Do you care whether the food you eat causes pain to somebody?
O Yes O No
7. Do you get disturbed when children cry?
O Yes O No
8. Would you interfere if you saw two strangers fighting and if you thought you could stop them?
O Yes O No
9. Do you interfere when you see some neighbors mistreat their children?
O Yes O No
10. Do you like entertainment where animals are involved (e.g: horse racing)?
O Yes O No
11. Do you keep pets?
O Yes O No
12. Do you get upset when you hear that dolphins have been killed by the fishing industry?
O Yes O No
13. Do you reject abortion?
O Yes O No
14. Do you believe that animals also have the right to live and the right to have some appropriate living space?
O Yes O No
15. Are you ready to share your food if necessary?
O Yes O No
16. Can you forgive after having been offended and then continue a normal relationship?
O Yes O No
17. Do you look at violent pictures to see gory details?
O Yes O No
18. Do you consider life in a little cage on a chicken farm as acceptable?
O Yes O No
19. Are you willing to watch a circus when animals are tortured to perform there?
O Yes O No
20. Would you ever wear the skin of some animal, which was torn off its body while it was alive?
O Yes O No
21. Do you think hunting/fishing is a sport?
O Yes O No
22. Do you think feeding a goose by force and later killing it to turn its infected liver into pate is in any way acceptable for a human being?
O Yes O No
23. Do you think burning a hot iron on the body of an animal as a sign of identification should be permissible?
O Yes O No
24. Do you think aborted babies may be used for medical treatments or industrial purposes?
O Yes O No
25 Do you think an aborted child is less valuable than yourself?
O Yes O No
26. Would you like to see your sister/mother posing naked in a pornographic journal?
O Yes O No
27. Do you look at naked pictures of others?
O Yes O No
28. Do you think that exploitation may be justified?
O Yes O No
29. Do you think that indifference to the suffering of others is a better way of life than to worry all the time?
O Yes O No
30 Do you think torturing animals for medical purposes is a good idea?
O Yes O No
31. Do you think those who give pain to animals should be punished?
O Yes O No
32. If you see a suffering animal on the street, do you try to give it some help if possible?
O Yes O No
33. Do you mindlessly step on insects when you could have avoided it?
O Yes O No
34. Do you believe that giving suffering to any other living entity will bring suffering to your own life?
O Yes O No
35. Do you eat a vegan or vegetarian diet?
O Yes O No
36. Do you participate in any movement or project to raise the consciousness of others to stop the torture of animals?
O Yes O No
37. Are you ready to do something against war?
O Yes O No
38. Do you participate in environmental protection groups?
O Yes O No
Evaluation of your answers:
Add together all your answers (yes and no) which are in bold script
34-38: you are on a good path, please go on
30-33: you have violent tendencies, and your actions and your thinking are not always harmonized.
less than 29: you are violent in your behavior, in your thinking and in your neglect for showing compassion.
Violence breeds violence, ignorance breeds suffering. Due to violence to others, the precious treasure of our faith in love decreases until it is lost. What is left is a sick, stone-hearted person, happily inclined to do anything and everything to modify his desperate calamity.
Violence, anger, harshness are opposed to the symptoms of mystical faith which brings tender love and care. If we do not understand the position of violence neither will we understand why faith is lost so easily.
Violence brings fear into our life. This fear makes us also aware of our own violent attitudes and tendencies Thus, fear and our own violent nature will bring about a cycle of action and reaction due to violence.