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Mar052007

To Teach Others

DateMarch 5, 2007

In one of his discourses, Venerable Sariputta said, 'When one who teaches wishes to teach another, let him establish five good qualities and then teach. Let him think:

  • I will speak at the right time, not at the wrong time.
  • I will speak about what reality is, not about what is not.
  • I will speak with gentleness, not with harshness.
  • I will speak about the goal, not about what is not the goal.
  • I will speak with a mind filled with love, not with a mind filled with ill-will. 

~ (A, lll, 195 translated by Ven. S. Dhammika)

 

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