You're going to be 100% straight with yourself. Being straight meaning you're truthful to yourself, not

being in deceptions and denials. Why do we deny something? Because we want to create images of ourselves

based on social requirements or personal aggrandizement.

Whatever you do in the world for playing different roles that you play depending on the type of life that you live,

it'll be wonderful if you are absolutely straight with everybody around you, at least your immediate surroundings, your life will become easy, even there.

But if you want to grow internally, being absolutely straight is important.

Well, your perceptions may be as the are, so being absolutely straight may not be correct because your perceptions keep changing but according to your present perceptions you must be straight

Tomorrow your perception may change and what you thought was straight may not be straight as it should be.

It's just like the lines that we draw upon this planet.

Because of its curvature and its movement, what you think is straight, what your eye tells you it's straight is not really straight.

So similarly your perceptions may change, your experiences may change, the depth of your understanding may change,

and accordingly what is straight may change.

But according to your present perceptions of life, you must be straight because if you are deceptive or in denials the amount

of psychological activity unnecessary as they are will rampage you and this cascade of

unnecessary psychological activity takes such a toll and the amount of energy

and time that it consumes is not worthwhile. So being straight simply

means when you sit here you can simply sit here without constant calculations and

manipulations within your mind.

When you sit here, you can just sit here.

So if you're not really straight with yourself,

you cannot meditate.

You cannot do anything internal.

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