Well, it's been awhile since my last post.
I'm getting to the virtues that I find more difficult, the ones that make me uncomfortable, the ones that my ego would really rather not work on. I wasn't ready to face this one.
Honesty and non-lying. Self-honesty is a necessity here before I can even start to work on this in other areas of my life. And to be honest, this one needs work for me. I don't like being judged; I don't like feeling exposed and vulnerable. I have lied in the past to protect my ego.
I just realized something. I project a lot of that on other people. I tend to lie because I think other people are as judgmental as I have been. Huh. That's not very loving towards them, or towards myself. Some people are judgmental, but there have been times when I've just assumed they would be that way, and lied, in essence stealing their opportunity to show loving-kindness.
Ouch. Yep. This one needs work.
