Just post something ๐
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How far will you take it OP?
Is withholding information a lie by omission?
If your friend is being annoying, will you do the honest thing and tell them that their voice is beginning to become grating?
What about when a loved one is dying, and they say they can see angels, will you tell them their brain is deprived of oxygen and they're hallucinating?
Hopefully the perfect length.
Delusion (moha) is always bad. Withholding information isn't inherently bad, though if it generates delusion, then it is.
If someone was happily seeing angels when dying, this seems like a positive thing. It's actually a delusion believing angels - moreso, deities - don't exist.
It's actually a delusion believing angels - moreso, deities - don't exist.
You lost me.
Can you prove they exist? How can you be sure they aren't delusions if people only see them in conditions where brains reliably hallucinate?
Good lying is never good ๐
There is the mental category ลฤแนญhya in Buddhism, a kind of dishonesty that is always bad.
There is 'allowed lying' within games, like the card game 'Cheat' (or B.S.), or social deduction games. The vow extends to these sorts of 'allowed deception' games - I won't play (or lie within) them.
There are cases like a trusted doctor lying to a patient as a last-resort to save their life, that can be beneficial. The vow extends to these cases - I won't lie even to spare lives. I think it's relatively more beneficial for me to set this extra commitment of honesty, though I don't think it's necessarily beneficial for others to take this sort of vow.
I gave Coyote permission to lie to me whenever he wants, because I trust him like that. This is from a personal view though, that he's an enlightened bodhisattva.
...How do I know this isn't a lie? ๐ค
If anyone has doubts, they can say. I'm used to being cross-examined, and know how to speak precisely & carefully. I've been preferring to limit language-communication to public writing online.
What's the most terrible thing you've ever done?
Just because someone chooses not to lie does not mean that they have to blab the truth of any question you ask of them.
Their truth could simply be, I do not wish to answer that question.
I don't have a sure ranking of what is the worst thing I've done. Tentatively, I think the worst is when living in my first apartment over a decade ago, I bought traps to poison cockroaches there. I don't think I learned the perception of them as sentient beings at the time. I also think having done catch-and-release fishing during childhood is relatively high, e.g. there were also fish that died after swallowing the hook.