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STRAIGHT-FORWARDNESS
BACKGROUND The virtue of being straightforward is also the virtue that we sometimes call by the name Frankness. It means consistency in the activities of mind, speech and the body. (i.e. to say exactly what is in one's mind and to do exactly what one says.)
A good deal of progress in the practice of this virtue can be achieved, if we try sincerely to act upon our words and thus shed off any such tendencies as complexity, crookedness, deception, trickery, and so on from our day to day activities. Straightforwardness is the basic virtue of the true
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