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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 89 - Right Speech
Description: Right speech is abstaining from: false speech divisive speech harsh speech frivolous speech  Lying (false speech): The performance is indicating something false through speaking, through choosing not to speak, or through gesture. Causing others to engage in the three types of speech—lying, divisive speech, or offensive speech—is the same as doing it yourself. Divisive speech: the motivation is the desire that living beings who are compatible be separated or the desire that living beings who are incompatible remain so. Harsh speech: is saying something unpleasant, which may be either true or false, about someone else. ...