Do You Lie?
Questionnaire for self-research according to the OIDA-therapy
While answering these questions please consult your inner voice
1. Do you deny your habits to yourself?
2. Do you lie to yourself about your determination to get rid of unwanted habits?
3. Do you lie to others to take advantage of them?
4. Do you lie to others, to make yourself look better?
5. Do you lie without any necessity?
6. Do you lie when you think it is necessary?
7. Do you lie to those who are superior to you to avoid being controlled?
8 Do you lie to those who are under your care in order to control them better?
9. Do you think lying is a sin?
10. Do you think somebody should be chastised for lying?
11. Do you believe one may lie in emergencies?
12. Would you want to be a friend of somebody who lies to you?
13. Do you feel ashamed when you are caught lying?
14. Would you vote for somebody who has been exposed lying?
15. Do you think that lying is such a common thing, that not much attention should be given to the topic?
16. Do you want to get justice if someone is lying about you?
17. Do you prefer others to lie about you – rather than telling the truth about your activities or character?
18. Do you think that lying, while conducting business, is an unavoidable evil?
19 Do you believe that lying to your husband or wife is the beginning of the end of a nice relationship?
20. Do you lie to yourself about the real needs of your body?
21. Do you lie to yourself about the reason of your bad relationships?
22. Do you lie to yourself by casting general judgments about others?
23. Do you believe that you are not this body – but treat others as if they were their bodies?
24. Do you lie to your inner voice even though you already know better?
25. Do you promise things, you know you will not be able to fulfill?
26. Do you repeat things about others, as if they were facts, without having personally verified them first?
27. Do you hide things about yourself?
28. Do you hide things to avoid sharing with your own family?
29. Do you say I have nothing, to avoid giving even though you do not even know, what to do with all what you have?
30. Do you lie to yourself about the dangers of intoxication?
31. Do you lie to yourself by telling yourself that you can afford ignoring people whom destiny has put in front of you?
32. Do you lie about your feelings even, when you really need help?
33. Do you give the impression of understanding something, while inside you are totally confused about it?
34. Do you lie to cover up your insecurities?
35. Do you admit your laziness?
36. Do you mistreat others, because your ego got agitated, even though you know that this course of action is not a good decision?
37. Do you claim not to have a desire, while in actuality you still have it?
38 Do you say you are well, when you are actually ill?
39. Do you say, you have money, when you are actually broke?
40. Do you try to hide your bad habits, rather than get rid of them?
41. Do you feel sick because of the many lies you have told?
42. Do you feel burdened, because you have to keep telling lies, to sustain the ones you told before?
43. Do you lie to yourself about the need of higher realizations?
44. Do you believe that lying out of fear, will traumatize you?
45. Do you believe it is good to reveal the truth once you feel repentant about having lied?
46. Do you believe you should forgive persons who have lied to you, and treat them as honest people again?
47. Do you feel ashamed about your lies?
48. Do you try to avoid people whom you have lied to previously?
49. Do you like to hide your physical realities by artificial means?
50. Do you know that lies have short legs and will soon leave you even more embarrassed and vulnerable?
Evaluation:
I hope you have not lied in your answers. The conditioned soul lives the life of many lies. Overcoming lies is a symptom, which arises with the healing of our diseased condition. In your self-evaluation you should not only consider whether you are still lying about something, but you should also consider your serious desire to overcome these lies and the underlying problems which influenced you to lie. If you lie and cause suffering to others due to your lying, you are bound to suffer the reactions from your lying. If you lie without any consideration for others, indifferent to other persons’ wellbeing, and ruthlessly searching your advantage, you have very little chance to find any change from your current state of ignorance. If you lie to avoid problems without harming others, or just to project an untrue image of yourself, you have a better chance to reach goodness eventually.
If you lie only in absolute emergency and consider the well-being of all others, you are actually protected by goodness.
The highest criteria about lies can only be realized in the stage of universal love, and that is a substantial progress on the ladder of progress in the healing therapy.