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How Managers Can Have Right Speech
Dec. 11 | Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, and from idle chatter. This is called right speech. – The Buddha(Magga-vibhanga Sutta) The primary goal of giving feedback at work isn’t generally to make someone...
Who Are You Behind That Mask? (‘Hema Hema’s Dharma Drama On Karma)
May. 23 | What if there is an secret camp of sorts, amidst the mountains, where for a fortnight, all don masks to hide their true identities, and are free to do whatever they wish? There, almost anything goes, though there are some basic rules to ensure there...
The Noble Abstain From False, Divisive, Harsh & Frivolous Speech
May. 8 | Renounce falseness and cultivate trustworthiness. Renounce divisiveness and cultivate harmoniousness. Renounce harshness and cultivate peacefulness. Renounce frivolousness and cultivate meaningfulness. – Shilashanti Kālāmas, a learned noble disciple...
Axe
Jan. 1 | Every fool who is born has an axe within his mouth with which he cuts himself when he uses wrong speech… The worse of the two is he who, when abused, retaliates. One who does not retaliate wins a battle hard to win. The fool thinks he has won a...
Just Your Thinking So Does Not Make It So
Dec. 19 | Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. – Buddhist Saying While Right Speech conventionally means abstaining from lying, gossip, vain talk, and...
How Sariputra Spoke The Dharma
Aug. 1 | In the case of words that the Tathagata knows to be factual, true, beneficial, and endearing and agreeable to others, he has a sense of the proper time for saying them. – Sakyamuni Buddha (Abhaya Sutta) Of all the Buddha’s disciples,...
Verse On Pond
Nov. 29 | 若见池沼， 当愿众生， 语业满足， 巧能演说。 – 文殊菩萨 (华严经: 净行品: 第70偈) If seeing a pond,* [reflect that] ‘May sentient beings’ karma of speech be [completely] perfect, [with] skilful ability [in]...
The Buddha’s Perfect Fatherly Speech
Feb. 24 | Those not aware that they can be mindfully firm and not unmindfully harsh harm by choosing anger. – Stonepeace | Books “Sariputta the chief disciple said, ‘The Tathagata [Sakyamuni Buddha] is perfect in speech, there is no fault in the Tathagata...
Three Kinds Of Loving Speech
Sep. 26 | How you think conditions how you speak later. How you speak conditions how you think later. – Stonepeace Loving speech means to communicate and discuss with pleasant speech. There are three types of loving speech: (1) Comforting speech: We should communicate...
Chat On Idle Talk
Jul. 12 | Question: Sometimes I engage in useless speech for social reasons. For example, when colleagues or friends get together, someone starts a so-called useless topic and I might agree or disagree along for the sake of joining in. An alternative would...
