Gate Seventy-seven
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
Right speech is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] concepts, voice, and words all are known as sound.
Right Speech: to abstain from false, slanderous, malicious or harsh speech and idle gossip that offends or hurts others
By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Koan:
"Right speech is an essential part of Shakyamuni Buddha’s very first teaching of the Noble Eightfold Path, his prescription for spiritual liberation and insight. This teaching can be very useful to us in daily life, and recommends we avoid lying, divisive speech, abusive speech, and idle (unmindful) chatter. The Buddha also gave us five things to consider before speaking: Is what we’re about to say factual, helpful, kind (spoken with good-will), pleasant (“endearing”), and timely?"
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合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
Right speech is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] concepts, voice, and words all are known as sound.
Right Speech: to abstain from false, slanderous, malicious or harsh speech and idle gossip that offends or hurts others
By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Koan:
"Right speech is an essential part of Shakyamuni Buddha’s very first teaching of the Noble Eightfold Path, his prescription for spiritual liberation and insight. This teaching can be very useful to us in daily life, and recommends we avoid lying, divisive speech, abusive speech, and idle (unmindful) chatter. The Buddha also gave us five things to consider before speaking: Is what we’re about to say factual, helpful, kind (spoken with good-will), pleasant (“endearing”), and timely?"
-Domyo Burke's Zen Studies Podcast; link here
Most note worthy replies :
Can you speak what is right
From being mindful of
Believing what is right?
When words do no harm—
Wispy clouds
Leave no rain behind
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
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