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Meditation On Gossip By Lillian

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Venerable Namgyel Offers Us Continued Guidance  On The Teachings Of Karma Covering...

LYING

Lying comprises of...

  • The object - another person able to understand you
  • The intention - discrimination, the unmistaken recognition of the content of the lie
  • The motive - to fully intend to deceive somebody
  • The delusion - attachment, anger, or jealousy.
  • The action - speech or non speach actions causing others to believe something that may not be true
  • The completion, the moment when someone understands and believes your lie

    • DIVISIVE SPEECH

    Divisive speech is speech intended to divide a relationship and separate those involved.

    • The object - two or more people who share a relationship,  where divisive speech is used to cause damage to the relationship situation or schism
    • The Intention - the discrimination, correct recognition of the parties involved and their relationship, and that your speech can go against them
    • The motive - the state of mind where you fully intend to cause disunity
    • The delusion - attachment, anger
    • The action - undertaking to cause either separation or prevent a reconciliation
    • The completion - when the parties understand and believe what you have told them.

      • HARSH SPEECH

      Comprises of...

      • The object - any living being that can be hurt by what you say (or the feeling behind it in the case of animals)
      • The intention - discrimination, correctly identifying the object to be insulted.
      • The motive -  to fully intend to speak harsh or abusive words
      • The delusion -  attachment, anger, or ignorance/speaking uncontrollably through the force of habit
      • The action - Speaking rudely, harshly, critically, abusively, insultingly, with a negative intention
      • The completion - When the other person understands and is hurt by your words

        • IDLE GOSSIP

        One of the easiest negative actions to perform comprising of...

        • The object - something insignificant, meaningless and unimportant which you are treating as significant, meaningful, and important
        • The intention - discrimination in viewing whatever you wish to say as significant and important and meaningful, even though it's not.
        • The motive - the state of mind in which you fully intend to gossip and indulge in idle talk (which has the tendency to turn negative).
        • The delusion - the primary delusion is the ignorance of not understanding that what you have to say is meaningless and unimportant
        • The action - to speak without purpose, which is a great waste of time and stimulates other delusions to arise and can start to turn negative
        • The completion - having spoken the words

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