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From Darkness to Light, Dependence to Freedom, Fear to Fearlessness ....

Be honest in your interactions with people.

Trying to look good might work for a while. Might even work for a lifetime. But you lose a part of you every time you "try" to look good and not be what you are.

Don't try to please people. What good does it do? Anyways, 20 years down the line you might not even be talking to that person. Even if you are the interaction will continue only until either you or that person are alive. It has to end some place and some time. You are merely delaying the inevitable by "looking" good or being someone you are not. 
Might as well let that thing happen now. Let the pleasing stop now. Let the sucking up to people stop now. For a few years of "pleasing" people you are losing an eternity (or very close to it) of self-respect. You are losing you. And nothing is worth that.

Let people see you for what you are. They might despise you. They might like you. But finally you don't have a different face for everyone. Life becomes simple. Life becomes consistent. Life becomes what it should be. Fun.

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February 01, 2009 9:37 AM

What if the person's true "face" is not pleasing, or not friendly, or very selfish, or any of the things that cause life to not be "fun"?

It ties in with the concept of self - if you are completely self-less (as in, bereft of the concept self), then this holds true. If you are not, won't this probably lead to more suffering in life than having the white-lie fake faces (or masks, as psychologists like to call it)?    



February 02, 2009 11:40 AM

Are you talking about my true "face" not being good or the opposite person's?

If my true "face" is not good then I should try and change it if I feel it is not correct or show myself to people as I am ... in either case, i should drop the good "mask" nonetheless as just covering a shitty thing with a nice wrapper is not the way to go.

If it's other people's non-pleasing true "face" then I feel I shouldn't be concerned with that. Its their prerogative.

Hope I am making sense. Let me know if you were trying to say something else.    



February 02, 2009 11:46 AM

I'm talking about your face, not the other person's. Also, I mean this for people who are not yet self-less - not even close.

I agree that your face needs to become more 'correct', but while correcting this face, should your 'ugly' face be shown to people (which may cause resentment in them, and social and personal suffering to you), or should you mask it?

If you are self-less, this discussion is moot.    



February 02, 2009 2:56 PM

I believe the 'ugly' face should be shown in public ... there shouldn't be any pretense.

If one is honest then he has a better chance of correcting that 'ugly' face ... of course if one wants to. One just harms others and more importantly, one's own self, by putting up this sham.    



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