The importance of speech in the context of Buddhist ethics is obvious:
words can break or save lives, make enemies or friends, start war or create peace.

Buddha explained right speech as follows:

1. to abstain from false speech, especially not to tell deliberate lies
2. to abstain from slanderous speech and not to use words against others
3. to abstain from harsh words that offend or hurt others
4. to abstain from idle chatter that lacks purpose or depth.

 
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Posted: 06 March 2009 06:24 PM  
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Namo Amituofo all.

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A special transmission outside the scriptures; (chin.: jiàowàibiézhuàn 教外別傳)
No dependence upon words and letters; (chin.: bùlì wénzì 不立文字)
Direct pointing to the human mind; (chin.: zhízhǐrénxīn 直指人心)
Seeing into one’s own nature and attaining Buddhahood. (chin.: jiànxìngchéngfó 見性成佛)

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