How To Avoid Lying?

Once there was a thief,he went to stole at palace and got caught. And the king was going to kill him ... so the thief suddenly remembered the buddha ... thought that " only the buddha can help me now" ... so he said i m buddha's niecethen the king said if it is true then i ll let u go ... if it is not then i ll kill u ...And the king sent his man to see the buddha and asked the buddha ... when they reached there they asked the buddha wheather it is true or not that the thief is his niece?so the buddha thought if i said the truth he will ve to die juz for stoling ...if i dun tell the truth then i m telling lie ... so at last he said to the king's man " who said that he is not my niece " . Then the king let the thief go ...
The thief became one of the monk at the buddha monastry ...


Telling the truth is good but not always ...
If it is good for both party then say it, do it ...
If it is not good for both party dun say it ,do it ...

I heard this story from the monk cuz ppl asked how can we avoid lying ...