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Questionnaire for self-research
according to the OIDA-therapy
(When you
answer these questions you can also make it easy for yourself.
You probably lie to yourself by giving the conventional, nice
answers, or you may even be a hypocrite. This means that you answer
the questions in a way favorable to you, even when you do not
put those things into practice. Otherwise, when your answers are
honest, they can give you a good picture of your true present
situation This helps you also to further define the necessary
steps on the path of your realization.)
1. Do you get bored when you hear about the success of others?
O Yes O No
2. Do you feel happy when you see a field of blooming flowers?
O Yes O No
3. Do you feel pity with the animals when you see them confined
in the cages of the zoo?
O Yes O No
4. Do you ever wonder how they get animals to perform on movie
screens and television programs?
O Yes O No
5. Are you concerned that the substances you apply to your body
for beauty have been tested on animals?
O Yes O No
6. When you buy flowers are you not concerned that the grower
was exposed to heavy chemicals?
O Yes O No
7. When you eat something which comes from a micro-wave oven do
you realize that for saving time you may loose health?
O Yes O No
8. Do you feel good if you get paid more than the others for the
same work?
O Yes O No
9. Do you throw dirt, including plastics, on the ground, when
nobody is looking?
O Yes O No
10. Do you look for the biggest piece of cake or sweet when you
are given the choice of taking from a plate?
O Yes O No
11. Do you drive your car or any vehicle in such a reckless manner
that someone walking onto the road without looking, could be struck
by your vehicle?
O Yes O No
12. Are you entertained when you read news about wars and crimes?
O Yes O No
13. Are you upset if you know that your sister has to sell herself
to maintain her children?
O Yes O No
14 Do you prefer to sleep even when you know you could make yourself
helpful to others at the same time?
O Yes O No
15. Don’t you ever worry about who created you and who is
maintaining you?
O Yes O No
16. Do you try to put others down to take an advantage for yourself?
O Yes O No
17. Do you speak about the defects of others without being asked
to?
O Yes O No
18. Do you serve the visitors in your home first before you eat?
O Yes O No
19. Do you throw your leftovers away, or try to feed some animal?
O Yes O No
20. Are you really concerned to avoid causing suffering for other
people and animals?
O Yes O No
21. Are you aware that animals are conscious of our kindness or
our brutality?
O Yes O No
22. Would you steal something from someone if you thought they
would not need it, or they would not notice?
O Yes O No
23. Are you happy to know that you are getting visitors at home?
O Yes O No
24. Do you care whether the product you buy or use has been produced
in reasonable satisfaction with regard to the people who produced
it?
O Yes O No
25. Do you like to read a book which contains reasonable criticism
of your lifestyle?
O Yes O No
26. Do you get a notion of injustice when you see people who are
more beautiful or wealthier than you?
O Yes O No
27. Do you speak glorifying words when you see somebody who has
done something beautiful, even though it does not benefit you
directly?
O Yes O No
28. Do you give money or food to someone who asks it from you,
or do you think the person should get lost and look for a job?
O Yes O No
29. Do you think that someone begging for money or food from you,
would do it if he or she had an alternative?
O Yes O No
30. Do you think that it is solely due to your effort that you
have enough money to live on?
O Yes O No
31. Do you think that the money you live on is your own, and that
you do not have to share it with anyone else?
O Yes O No
32. Do you think that you are only responsible for your loved
ones?
O Yes O No
33. Do you think it is all right that you make the circle of your
loved ones very close, only including your parents and offspring?
O Yes O No
34. Do you think it is all right that you receive for years, or
decades a fair amount of social money for doing nothing?
O Yes O No
35. Did you ever give money away without asking for it back because
you thought the other person could make an important use of it?
O Yes O No
36. Did you ever pay for going on frequent holidays while telling
others that you had no money for them?
O Yes O No
37. Have you ever said to people near to you that you have no
time for them, while saying that human relationships are important
to you?
O Yes O No
38. Do you think that you can care about your own future, without
practically caring for the future of others as well?
O Yes O No
39. Do you think it makes any sense to worry about things without
doing something practical about them?
O Yes O No
40. Do you think the sun rises in the morning because of you?
O Yes O No
41. Do you think that you are more important to the world than
others?
O Yes O No
42. Do you think you were born the way you are, due to the faults
of others?
O Yes O No
43. Do you think that anybody owes something to you?
O Yes O No
44. Do you think time is money? (If so, what is the value of time
you spend to complete this questionnaire?)
O Yes O No
45. Would you give up computers if you could save your family
by doing so?
O Yes O No
46. Do you prefer to listen to music rather than listening to
somebody’s difficulties?
O Yes O No
47. Do you feel that only one person can live in a room?
O Yes O No
48. Do you think dogs should be killed for barking while you’re
trying to sleep, or at least be taken to a desert?
O Yes O No
49. Do you think you could ever create a watermelon?
O Yes O No
50. Do you think matter has produced spirit?
O Yes O No
51. Do you think you have enough time to waste?
O Yes O No
52. Do you think time is in your possession?
O Yes O No
Evaluation
of your answers:
Add together
all your answers (yes and no) which are in bold script.
