Right-Speech  --   Week 10   

Words! ... Love them or hate them, it often feels like we’re drowning in the noise they create – not only in our own ears, or on the page, but in our heads. 

They have the power to uplift us and to cast us down, to liberate and to entrap.   

They create friendships and make enemies.   

They can gain us great wealth and lose us everything we possess.

The power of speech is so great that words cannot do it justice. 

As soon as a child learns to speak, its life and relationships change.  Countless daily choices come next. Whether to speak loudly or quietly, fast or slow. What words to use.   

When to speak or to be silent. 

We learn how to use our speech through trial and error, and in doing so create an image and style that will define our personality and shape our lives.   

ref: Compassion And Wisdom.org

Topics for discussion:  (From 16-G PDF)

1.  Practising right speech can be challenging at times, especially when we don’t agree with what the other person says. 

2.  How can the qualities of right speech help you avoid passing  judgement or giving advice?   

 .... or whatever is alive in you.  

 Words of Wisdom

“We have two ears and one
mouth so we can listen
twice as much as we speak.”

~  Epictetus  

Every positive action makes a better world. 

Every thought and action has consequence.

If everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made, then if you want a different result, you need to make a different choice. 

Human lives are composed of billions of actions of body, speech and mind which take place every minute from the moment of birth until the second when we take our last breath.

How we choose to act defines and colors the quality of our life and experiences.

How we act is not only important for our own welfare, but also for others.  

Through our actions, we have the choice to nurture friendships, families, community and society – or to bring pain and disharmony. 

Everything we do sets in motion a chain of events.  The deeper we probe into this, the stronger is the call to pay intense attention to how we think and subsequently behave, because the consequences can be so complex and far-reaching. 

ref:  Compassion And Wisdom.org

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