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Right Speech

Speech is powerful. Our words shape our minds, paving the path toward freedom or cementing habitual patterns of suffering. A crucial part of our practice, speech is something we can engage with even on days when we cannot sit in formal meditation. Our practice with speech includes the words that we direct to ourselves (perhaps with an unkindness we’d never use with others) and the words that we write in texts and emails and on social media—words that fashion our karma and our world with such tremendous speed.

The Buddha taught both what to avoid and to cultivate. Right

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