Honesty

Being honest with other people can lead to trust.

Being honest with yourself can lead to enlightenment… or at least that’s one interpretation of something Bodhidharma allegedly said:

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

I think that “not creating delusions” requires intellectual honesty.

• What do I really know?
• What am I assuming?
• What am I projecting?
• What do these abstract concepts actually point to?
• Am I collapsing spectrums into dichotomies?
• Am I imposing my subjective views as “objective facts”?
• Am I transforming dynamic processes into static things?