Donald Rothberg: Cultivating Wise Speech: Its Importance in the Path of Everyday Awakening

12/02/2025 1h 3min
Donald Rothberg: Cultivating Wise Speech: Its Importance in the Path of Everyday Awakening

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(Insight San Diego) Wise speech is an integral part of the traditional Buddhist path of awakening and a powerful way to energize our daily life practice, but is often underdeveloped in Western Buddhist practice. We’ll look in a very practical way at three aspects of wise speech: (1) developing presence in the midst of communication; (2) working with the four guidelines for skillful speech developed by the Buddha; and (3) becoming more mindful of and skillful with thoughts and emotions occurring during communication. For each of the foundations, a number of ways of practicing are offered. The talk is followed by discussion.

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