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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Frivolous Speech

 

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RIGHT SPEECH Refraining from Frivolous Speech Frivolous speech is unhealthy. Refraining from frivolous speech is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning frivolous speech, one refrains from frivolous speech. One speaks at the right time, speaks only what is fact, and speaks about what is good. One speaks what is worthy of being overheard, words that are reasonable, moderate, and beneficial. (DN 1) One practices thus: "Others may speak frivolously, but I shall abstain from frivolous speech." (MN 8) When a person commits an offense of some kind, one should not hurry to reprove them but rather should consider whether or not to speak. If you will not be troubled, the other person will not be hurt, and you can help them emerge from what is unhealthy and establish them in what is healthy, then it is proper to speak. (MN 103)

Reflection The fourth category of right speech is refraining from frivolous speech. This is not meant to stifle us entirely or to reduce human expression to essential facts and nothing more; rather, it is an invitation to pay more careful attention to what we say. It is healthy to speak what is true, to speak about what is good, and to be moderate in our speech, even if other people are not. What can you say that is helpful? Daily Practice Has it ever occurred to you that some people speak just for the sake of speaking, or say anything and everything that comes to mind, or go on indefinitely repeating the same stories? See if you can notice yourself doing this from time to time. Practice being aware enough of your own speech patterns to notice whether you are always saying something useful or necessary or valuable. Sometimes it is better to stay silent. Tomorrow: Reflecting upon Social Action One week from today: Refraining from False Speech Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Applying Compassion Lovingkindness, goodwill, and compassion naturally arise from our meditation practice, but feeling compassion is not the end of the path. The next step is love in action.  Devin Berry, “Love in Action”  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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Every teacher, every life experience, everything you notice in the universe, is but a reflection of your attachment. It's the way it works. If there is nothing you want, there is nothing that clings, and you go through life free. Collecting nothing. You collect a sight, you collect a record, you collect a computer, you collect a relationship, you collect a teacher, you collect a method, just more clinging. Use them all. Be with them. Enjoy them. Live fully in life. But don't cling. Flow through it. Be with it. And as you are quiet and you listen and hear how it all is, then you will relate to all of it in a harmonious way, in a way in which there is not exploitation. Harmonious in the way you relate to the floor you're sitting on, to the person next to you, to the night air, to the world you have to live in.   - Ram Dass -

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Equanimity

 

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RIGHT INTENTION Cultivating Equanimity Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis on which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on equanimity, for when you develop meditation on equanimity, all aversion is abandoned. (MN 62)  The characteristic of equanimity is promoting objectivity toward beings. (Vm 9.93) Having seen a form with the eye, one is neither glad-minded nor sad-minded but abides with equanimity, mindful and fully aware. (AN 6.1)

Reflection Equanimity is the quality of mind in which we are neither drawn toward something that is enticing nor pushed away from what is repellent. Like a plate balanced on a stick, the mind does not tilt forward or backward but remains poised in the middle. We can still act from this state, and in fact our actions tend to be more balanced when we are grounded in the equipoise of equanimity rather than carried off by passion for or against something. Daily Practice Equanimity is cultivated with the practice of mindfulness. Being aware non-judgmentally means being aware of an object of experience without the mind being biased in favor of it or against it, without favoring or opposing what it is or what is happening. Practice bringing an attitude of "this is simply what is happening now" toward whatever occurs, instead of "I like [or don’t like] this," or "I approve [or don't approve] of this." Tomorrow: Refraining from Frivolous Speech One week from today: Cultivating Lovingkindness Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Silence Plus Noise Silence does not mean to push away or avoid all noise; doing that is resisting the present moment and the joy and liberation it holds. Rebecca Li, “Translating Silence”  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

 

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RIGHT VIEW Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering And what is the way leading to the cessation of suffering? It is just this noble eightfold path: that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. (MN 9) This is one thing proclaimed by the Buddha who knows and sees, accomplished and fully awakened: If a person abides diligent, ardent, and resolute, their unliberated mind comes to be liberated, their undestroyed toxins come to be destroyed, and they attain supreme security from bondage. (MN 52)

Reflection We come now to the fourth noble truth, the path. Defining suffering, understanding its source, and recognizing that it can be stopped (the first three noble truths) are relatively straightforward, but the path to accomplish the end of suffering is infinitely varied. Eight path factors are enumerated, but each culture, each generation, perhaps even each individual treads this eightfold path in a unique way. Daily Practice The promise of the path leading to the end of suffering is that the transformation of suffering is possible and attainable. Here we are told quite directly that the path is there and that it does lead to the goal of liberating the mind. But it takes effort, and a large part of the practice is learning to "abide diligent, ardent, and resolute." See what these words mean in your own experience and bring this commitment to all you do. Tomorrow: Cultivating Equanimity One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Loss Is a Teacher The loss of a relationship is not the same as the loss of a life. Suffering a sudden betrayal is not the same as dying from heart failure. Yet both can teach us how to cultivate a new relationship to surrender and acceptance. Sunita Puri, “A Gift” CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE