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if you want to get an 80/20 of the benefit of Buddhism—something westerners are obsessed with, and perhaps not wrongly—practicing right speech will get you more more bang for your buck than right mindfulness—yet our culture spent all its points in the last decade on mindfulness
here, learn you a right speech https://t.co/8g7zVhlxmT
@chercher_ai while we're 80/20'ing things, try one moment of refusing to speak unkind things about self or otherhttps://t.co/qzFcaDOu1K
@chercher_ai in fact, I just want to add that, while I obviously endorse honesty, that's really not what Westerners need to focus on. we already care a lot about truth and even honesty (c.f. Radical Honesty). speech being useful, kind words + state of mind, and timely is far less emphasized
@tasshinfogleman I agree if we're considering statements of fact, but I disagree if we're considering non-verbal speech or "polite" speech/little white lies that we use to maintain social status or ties or avoiding confrontation or boundarying. That's an epidemic as far as I can tell.
@tasshinfogleman “Whereas some brahmans [..] are addicted to talking about lowly topics such as these — talking about kings, robbers, ministers of state; armies, alarms, and battles; food and drink; clothing, furniture, garlands, and scents; relatives; vehicles;
@tasshinfogleman villages, towns, cities, the countryside; women and heroes; the gossip of the street and the well; tales of the dead; tales of diversity [philosophical discussions of the past and future], the creation of the world and of the sea, and talk of whether things exist or not"
@mimi10v3 to be fair those are guidelines for monks and I think it can be appropriate and skillful for lay people to talk about worldly things! but you'd be surprised how much you can say if you constrain yourself to maintaining the qualities of right speech
@tasshinfogleman 😅 pre-Twitter I spent years saying not much of anything to anyone; this account has been an experiment in opening up w my thoughts and trying not to have much of a filter... and I feel like I've grown a lot from interacting instead of silence...
@mimi10v3 i'm glad you're here and sharing yourself and interacting!the thing I'd suggest, rather than prematurely applying filters, is just noticing a) what state of mind you're in when you share and b) what effects does what you share have?