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’ well-being, 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.
