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Tao Te Ching
Translated by D. Lau



The Power of Words:
A friendship takes years of cultivation to create, and only a few minutes to destroy; this is one of the many awesome powers contained in words.

It is said that words are the most difficult precept to develop. It is easier to master every other precept, then to begin to master Right Speech. Speech is something we think about so much, yet have so little control over. We are deceived in believing that we choose what we say, but we rarely do.

When someone corrects your words, be grateful to them that they are assisting you in accomplishing the near insurmountable precept of right speech.


Namaste,
CET

"Much of the suffering in the world comes from the illusion that we are separate from one another." - Gautama Buddha