Honesty

When Kintu lost his bone, he had to dig all over the yard until he found it. We have to dig for the truth as well. Truth often isn't easy to find. Sometimes those we think are villains are actually heroes and sometimes heroes are villains. It often takes courage to recognize we were wrong and dig elsewhere.

So how do we find the truth? The first place to look is in nature. The first martial artists discovered techniques by copying nature. We find truth in the same way. How many chew toys are on the lawn? We find the truth by counting them. We measure reality and accept the measurement (often easier said than done). If there are actually 4 chew toys, don't tell others there are 3 or 5. Find the truth by measuring. How do we know when someone is a hero or a villain? We measure their actions.

Did you count the chew toys and see there were 4? Then live the truth of what you measured in nature/reality. Did you do something that you weren't supposed to? Then accept the truth of your actions. When your parents ask what happened, tell them the truth. Honesty is making our words and actions match nature, or what really happened.

When we are honest, we get the superpower of trustworthiness...Paw-er Unleashed!™ Doors are opened to us when others know that we're reliable and trustworthy.

The way to question the truth is by #beingthemirror. Being the mirror is looking at the question through the eyes of someone who thinks you're wrong. We have to be ready to be wrong, and it can also be hard to be wrong. But if we want to find the truth, we have to be brutal to our own ideas. Were you really hoping there were only 3 chew toys? You need to look at nature through the eyes of someone who wasn't hoping that. Hope is important, but don't let hope cloud your judgment. Look at martial arts through the eyes of your opponent. When we go easy on ourselves during training, we're not really seeing the truth of our own skills. When we're brutally honest, we question everything, but especially our own ideas.