#right speech

[goldentortoise]

Artwork by Susa Talan

[raffaellopalandri]

The Ontology of Silence: A Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Inquiry into the Refusal to Speak in an Age of Compulsory Expression

We live in a time profoundly characterised by noise—auditory, visual, intellectual, emotional, and existential. Photo by Gaetan THURIN on Pexels.com From the moment we awaken to the digital sirens of notifications, traffic, alerts, broadcasts, opinions, arguments, advertisements, algorithms, and artificially induced anxieties, to the final hours of wakeful unrest where silence is neither…

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, and from idle chatter: This is called right speech. —Gautama Buddha, Mahācattārīsakasutta, Pāli Canon (c 500 BCE)

[Scott Horton]

[theinwardlight]

[halfchildhalfancient]

Whenever things get difficult, pause before you speak and sense your wisest motivation. This is the secret of wise speech. As the Buddha describes it: “Speak with kindly motivation. Speak what is true and helpful, speak in due season and to the benefit of all.”

—- Jack Kornfield

[deepinsamsara]

[opiraticentranced]

Practicing right speech when everyone around you is acting from their deepest neuroses is more difficult than I anticipated...

[wishfulmanifestations]

“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”

The universe often knows the ideal time to bring something into your life. The problem is that our earthly ego isn’t always privy to this divine timeline and can get frustrated when something takes longer than expected, just as the ego can get scared when something shows up before we feel ready.