Loyalty

Definition

Faithfulness to worthy people, principles, responsibilities, and commitments.

The lesson

Loyalty is not blind obedience. A Zen Warrior never supports wrongdoing because a friend, leader, or group expects it. True loyalty stays accountable to righteousness and truth.

Loyalty is faithfulness to worthy things: God, truth, family, your word, and the people you are responsible for. It is not cover for wrongdoing. Name a duty you will keep, and one loyalty you will refuse even if your own side expects it. Then do the duty.

How. Write one duty you will keep and one loyalty you will refuse. Do the duty today.

Watch. Devotion to a group used as permission to despise the people outside it.

The book finishes this. Faithfulness under pressure from one’s own side, and the brotherhood that can tell a man the truth without abandoning him.

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