Wear a Mask

2248084559_1d5656572c_mJanuary 10, 2010
Honesty and truthfulness can be the wrong approach to another. Always be truthful to yourself and walk in sincerity. People have been programmed to be honest and sincere like the little child who innocently says what he thinks he sees without concern for what anyone thinks. Know who you’re talking to and, their openness to the subject particularly if it affects their thoughts.

Everyone is a unique individual at different ‘levels’ of understanding. Some are at various levels of intellect, others at various levels of emotional or spiritual development. Letting go of judgments to accept where others are at, while tuning in to them in that space which is acceptable to them, is ‘harmonious positioning’. To have compassion and understanding for where a persons qualities of communication are, is to enhance a friendliness where a manner of being too truthful about how one thinks or feels is a barrier that creates a tension in communication.

Truth can be used as a ‘weapon’, for example, to bolster one’s ego while hurting another intentionally or unintentionally. Insisting on a truth where a lie that hurts the other less is sometimes a better method of communication. A simple example would be telling your child something less than the truth, such as on the existence of Santa Claus. Telling one’s wife that she looks horrible today is certainly an example of ‘truth needing to be checked’.

Clearly, sometimes the wearing of a ‘mask or false face’ from the truth is far more compassionate and sensible. Always be alert to not become so identified with the mask that it becomes used with what amounts to deception for gain at the other’s expense. Life as we see it is often a mask of the truth however, to always encourage the communication of the truth is divine!

A person walks up to another sitting on a park bench handing him what he says is a beautiful smelling rose. The rose obviously has half it’s petals missing! Suddenly the man on the bench notices that the ‘rose giver’ is blind and can only smell the rose. His first instinct before noticing that the man is blind is to throw it away in disdain. But compassionately, he then says to the blind man, avoiding the truth, ‘it’s a beautifully smelling rose!
January 10, 2010
Honesty and truthfulness can be the wrong approach to another. Always be truthful to yourself and walk in sincerity. People have been programmed to be honest and sincere like the little child who innocently says what he thinks he sees without concern for what anyone thinks. Know who you’re talking to and, their openness to the subject particularly if it affects their thoughts.

Everyone is a unique individual at different ‘levels’ of understanding. Some are at various levels of intellect, others at various levels of emotional or spiritual development. Letting go of judgments to accept where others are at, while tuning in to them in that space which is acceptable to them, is ‘harmonious positioning’. To have compassion and understanding for where a persons qualities of communication are, is to enhance a friendliness where a manner of being too truthful about how one thinks or feels is a barrier that creates a tension in communication.

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