Some thoughts on Right Speech

Posted on 22 April 201323 September 2014 by Warren Tang

Sometimes – more often than not – Right Speech means silence in a matter, not in ignorance or in ignoring something (not wanting to know or wishing its nonexistence) but refraining from speaking in the understanding that to talk about it will not help the situation, and that speaking out may even make the situation worse.

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6 thoughts on “Some thoughts on Right Speech”

Warren 29 April 20131704

Old habits are hard to kick. Same problem here. It won’t end until some kind of insight I guess.

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sentinentme 29 April 20130943

I have been working on this on for some time.

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Warren 29 April 20130716

A Buddhist take on things. :)

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LadyT 24 April 20130859

Interesting take… and true. Wisdom knows when to speak and when to be silent.

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Warren 22 April 20131932

Gassho.

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livelysceptic 22 April 20131852

This is slightly strange: I’ve just wrote down somewhere that I did not want to comment on something. It’s the first time I ever did this. And I did it exactly because I suspected speaking out might make things worse…

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