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This questionnaire is concerned with classifying the sort of views and opi- nions you hold. Find the answer you agree with the most for each of the following questions. When you have finished, count-up the number of (a)'s, (b)'s, (c)'s and (d)'s which you have chosen. 1. What do you do about a headache? a) I don't ever get a headache b) I take pain-killer tablets c) I must sit in a dark room, be- cause the headache is always a 'migraine' d) I wait for it to go away 2. What is your attitude to throwing litter? a) It doesn't matter b) It is trivial compared to the pollution caused by the multi- national companies c) It is disgraceful behaviour and never happened in the olden days d) It shows weakness of mind 3. What is your most important aim in life? a) Obtaining money and impressing my friends b) Changing the present govern- ment for a better one c) Securing a good marriage and preserving the national heritage d) Happiness through meditation ATTITUDE QUESTION NAIRE by Nicholas C. Woods 4. Why do you follow a religion? a) My parents follow the same religion b) I don't follow religion; I pride myself on being a free thinker c) My parents expect me to follow this religion d) Through my own experience, I have found it is the mainstay of my life 5. What impresses you about religion? a) Faith healing and fortune-telling b) It helps me to fulfil my indivi- duality c) Forgiveness and the strength of religious tradition d) Spiritual progress 6. What sort of person can help you the most? a) A person who can give me money b) A person who agrees with my views c) A person who is influential in society d) A person who is wiser than I am, about myself 7. What sort of person impresses you the most? a) A person who can drink the most beer without falling-over b) A person who is successful in their studies although they are too lazy to do any work c) A person who is successful and well-married, but can still get away with keeping a mistress too d) A person who is Truthful 8. How do you feel when you are left alone in the dark? a) Bored b) Restless c) Afraid of ghosts d) Restful and refreshed You may find as a result of com- pleting this questionnaire, that you have chosen more (d)'s than any other letter. In this case you have the same lack of opinions that are common to all those who try to free their mind of false view. The answers to (a), (b) and (c) are not nonsense answers however, even though they may seem very strange to the Thai reader. The majority of the people living in the Western world, who have no acquaintance with a religion that cultivates the mind, would choose their questionnaire answers only from (a), (b) and (c)! The answers (a), (b) and (c) also represent the stereotyped responses of three particular groups of Westerner. I will leave it to the reader to try to picture the sort of people who belong to group 'a', group 'b' and group 'c'... These groups differ in their attitude to the environment that sur- rounds them; Group 'a' don't care about the envi- ronment Group 'b' want to change the envi- ronment Group 'e' want to keep the environ- ment the same The reader might be interested to know that in the West, the majority of those who become interested in meditation [ie. group 'd'] were originally members of group 'b', who discovered that changing 'themself' brings more satis- faction than trying to change the envi- ronment! กัลยา ณ มิ ต ร 59 Kalyanamitra.org