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Peaceful Harmony results from training and study of the "Middle Way Path" of upward spiral movement. This upward growth spiral of "Wisdom" when combined with "Morality" and "Concentration" form the foundational basis for the Buddhism "Noble Eightfold Path", which will eventually lead a Buddhist to "Enlightenment" and to "Nirvana" and the eventual cessation of all pain and all suffering. The practical teachings of Buddhism were meant to carry one to safety, peace, happiness, and tranquility. Salvation and individual emancipation were attained by diligently developing wholesome, virtuous qualities, and by eliminating unwholesome, non-virtuous qualities from the personality. In order to get off the Karmic Wheel one must initiate potent Moral Action in any moment of time so that one's skandhas will be properly configured. A person consists of five skandhas: a bodily form, feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness. At any given moment in time, one is an amalgam of these five groups. A very important element of the "Noble Eightfold Path", which leads one to "Nirvana" and "Enlightenment", is "Right Speech". Kind and compassionate communications promote a happy harmonious life for both the individual and for society. "Right Speech" also helps to build a firm foundation for higher states of consciousness where Buddhists perform only Moral Actions. "Right Speech" requires the Buddhist to abstain from all disharmonious conversations, from licentious lying, from malicious backbiting, from salacious slander, from scandalous libel, from character defamation, from harmful gossip, from vile vilification, and from cruel calumny.
Buddhic aspirants begin with
a small spark of "Wisdom" like knowledge about the five skandhas. Any future
blended patterns of these skandhas are the result of prior causations. This
causal linkage continues from lifetime to lifetime until "Nirvana" liberates one
from the karmic cycles of rebirth.
Moral actions like "Right Speech" result in more propitious circumstances while wrongful acts like lying, slander, gossip, vilification, defamation, backbiting, and calumny lead to unfortunate conditions. This "Wisdom" then inspires the Buddhist to embrace "Morality" and do more "Concentration" meditations to expand "Wisdom" which results in further strengthening "Morality" and leads to higher levels of meditative "Concentration" and so on. In a life affirming harmonic resonance cycle, it would follow that the Buddhist would not only abstain from wrong speech themselves but proactively seek to protect themselves from repeated exposure to wrong speech in their environment such as books, movies, music, and television shows where wrong speech is promoted. Although all things are impermanent, all occurrences in one’s life are conditioned by others and with a turn of the wheel then form conditions for other occurrences. One event, action, or reaction, results in an effect and that in turn causes other events, actions, and reactions. "Right Speech" will yield a harvest of peaceful harmony for the Buddhist. People are greatly appreciative of "Right Speech" or communications when it is also based on sincere and pure thoughts of empathy, compassion, consideration, friendliness, generosity, kindness, and sympathy for others.
Thus "Pratityasamypadha",
the cornerstone "Law of Causation" for Buddha's entire system of Buddhism
teachings, lends itself not only to increasing peace and harmony by refraining
from wrongful speech that hurts or maligns others, but, also leaves ample room for
stockpiling positive Karma by practicing compassionate kind communications with
every thought one thinks and every word one speaks.
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