A User's Guide to Living - Part 6 - TRUTH & AUTHENTICITY

DAAJI continues his series on everyday living, introducing the fifth universal principle of the User’s Guide, which is about truthfulness and acceptance of whatever hardships come our way. As a starting point, this fifth principle helps us to live a contented, peaceful life, with acceptance and compassion. Then, as we progress, it guides us towards the ultimate nature of Truth and Reality.

- DAAJI

The Practice

1 Create a daily morning meditation practice scientifically

2 Fill your heart with love before starting meditation and before sleeping

3 Fix your goal and do not rest until you attain it

Essential values

4 Live simply to be in tune with Nature

5 Be truthful & accept challenges as being for your betterment

Behavior Being to Doing

6 Know everyone as one, treating them equally & harmoniously

7 Do not seek revenge for the wrongs done by others, instead always be grateful

8 Honor the resources you are given as sacred, with an attitude of purity, including food and money

Leadership

9 Become a role model by inspiring love and sacredness in others. Accept the richness of their diversity, while also accepting that we are all one

Continuous Improvement

10 Introspect daily before bedtime, so as to correct your faults and avoid making the same mistake twice

Principle 5:

Always be truthful, accept miseries as coming from God for your own good and be thankful.

The nature of truth

This is a vast topic, so we will start at the level of day-to-day behavior and then progress toward the ultimate Truth of existence.