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Right speech means avoiding four types of harmful speech:
>lies (words spoken with the intent of misrepresenting the truth);
>divisive speech (spoken with the intent of creating rifts between people);
>harsh speech (spoken with the intent of hurting another person’s feelings)
>idle chatter (spoken with no purposeful intent at all).
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"How is one made impure in four ways by verbal action?
There is the case where a certain person tells lies. When he has been called to a town meeting, a group meeting, a gathering of his relatives, his guild, or of the royalty, if he is asked as a witness, ‘Come & tell, good man, what you know’: If he doesn’t know, he says, ‘I know.’ If he does know, he says, ‘I don’t know.’ If he hasn’t seen, he says, ‘I have seen.’ If he has seen, he says, ’I haven’t seen.’ Thus he consciously tells lies for his own sake, for the sake of another, or for the sake of a certain reward.
He engages in divisive speech. What he has heard here he tells there to break those people apart from these people here. What he has heard there he tells here to break these people apart from those people there. Thus breaking apart those who are united and stirring up strife between those who have broken apart, he loves conflict, delights in discord, enjoys division, speaks things that create disharmony.
He engages in harsh speech, speaking words that are insolent, cutting, mean to others, reviling others, provoking anger and preventing peace.
He engages in idle chatter, speaking out of season, what isn’t factual, words that are not worth treasuring.
This is how one is made impure in four ways by verbal action."
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"There is the case where a certain person lies, speaks divisively, speaks abusively, engages in idle chatter; is covetous, malevolent, & holds wrong views. On the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the lower realms, in hell"