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Right Speech - The 3rd Spoke of the Wheel of Dharma
Right Speech - The 3rd Spoke of the Wheel of Dharma
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Aug 17, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
During this talk Shell begins to explore the sila (or virtue, moral conduct) section of the Noble 8-Fold Path, which is considered the foundation of the whole path, what it’s built upon. Without an essential grounding in sila, our practice can easily morph into a kind of self-improvement project … or, a type of self-serving practice that might help us to feel a little more calm or peaceful, but lacks the transformational aspects of ethical speech, action, and livelihood. And this 3rd spoke - Right Speech - is said to be where the practice of sila starts. As the great monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu tells us: “If you can't control your mouth, there's no way you can hope to control your mind.”
Released:
Aug 17, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Noble 8-Fold Path: A Summary Talk: The Buddha taught us that, happily, there is a way out of suffering, and that way is the Noble Eightfold Path. Yet, the path itself is often illustrated as a wheel … the Dhammachakra (chakra = wheel) … and each of the 8 parts of this wheel is... by Shell Fischer's Podcast