Tricycle Daily Dharma January 4, 2014
Language in Practice
The
first three practices of the eightfold path are right view, right
intention, and right speech. These make right conduct possible, and when
there is right conduct, there can be meditation practice and
mindfulness, which lead to wisdom, thereby reinforcing right view. So
from the first, the Buddha saw that our language conditions our
spirituality through our views, intentions, and uttered words, and that
training in an increased awareness of this process has to be the
starting point for spiritual practice.
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- Zoketsu Norman Fischer, “Beyond Language”
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