Ep. 161 – Practice in Daily Life: Right Speech
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
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Sila Is the Foundation of Any Path With Heart
When your heart's closed, it's like you've already died in some way. This is called Sila and the first two steps of the eightfold path were right under S-I-L-A. And there's my teacher Ajahn Chai used to love to talk about Sila. He would just light up and he would go on for hours, just being so happy talking about a virtuous heart. We hear so little about it in our culture, in our time. Yet it's so important, it's the foundation of any path with heart.
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