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: April 17 2006 07:00 PM   [ Ignore ]
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In keeping our primary principles, we accept article submissions from anyone who can add desirable content to our pages.

We do have some simple, common sense rules:

1) Please keep your submissions on subject.
2) Formatting:

a) Please submit all articles in a Word document, with no fancy formatting or fonts. Simple Times New Roman 12pt. font, or whatever the default is on your computer, is fine.

b) Do not indent.

c) Do not use bullets on your lists.

d) Do not use HTML tags in your piece, except for embedded links.

3) Please include a short (one small paragraph) bio with your piece, and include an email address to which you would like to have correspondence sent. If you have a website, please include that as well.

4) Always, link to sources. If you make a statement that isn’t common knowledge, especially statistics, you must back it up with a link. If you need help with this, you can always ask us for some research tips. But we’ll probably just tell you to go to any Search Engine anyhow.

5) Please title your submission. We may decide to change it at publication, but at least we’ll have something off which we can work.

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7) Please let us know whether or not your article is an original submission. We prefer them to be original, but we will reprint exceptional articles.

8) If your submission is rejected, please don’t stop sending. Acceptance depends on a variety of factors, including timeliness, style, and any number of editorial requirements of the moment that may not necessarily reflect on your writing.

9) If you have submitted an article and haven’t heard back from us in a reasonable amount of time, feel free to send us an email.

That’s basically it.

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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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