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All members please note important change to TOS.

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Dear all,
Please note an important addition to DW's TOS:
2c. Be agreeable, especially when you disagree

You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine: the Buddha said we should praise what should be praised, and criticize what should be criticized. But remember the advice of the Araṇavibhaṅga Sutta: criticize ideas, not people.

Please avoid:
  • . Name-calling.
    . Ad hominem attacks.
    . Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content.
    . Knee-jerk contradiction.
    . Passive-aggressive tactics.
    . Psycho-analysing other commenters.
    . Threatening people with kammic retribution!
Instead, consider first the things that should be reflected on before criticizing another (from MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta, and Vinaya Kd 19.5.2):
I will speak at a right time, not at a wrong time; I will speak about what is true, not about what is not true; I will speak with gentleness, not with harshness; I will speak about what is meaningful, not about what is not meaningful; I will speak with a mind of loving-kindness, not with inner hatred.
(2c. from Ven. Sujato's universal rules of dhamma discourse)
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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Thanks Ben.
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Greetings,

Is this a brand new section or does it replace an existing section on Right Speech?

Metta,
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I wonder why this sutta is not mentioned: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Zom wrote: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


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It is a brand new section, borrowed over from Ven. Sujato's blog. 2c in our ToS

We have also placed the ToS in its own forum so that it appears on the front (index) page of DW, that way it will be easier to find for all newcomers.

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Good Dhamma talk about this topic:

Joseph Goldstein 2009-05-06 56:39
Satipatthana Sutta - part 44 - The Noble Eightfold Path: Right Speech

http://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_p ... /6264.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
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