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Ep. 38 – The Eightfold Path: Right Speech

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Unusual Words

The useless words, when we say that which is useless, kind of the idle chatter, it's so innervating. And sometimes this useless talk can have some really bad consequences. A friend was going to Bali, went to the airport, you know, from New York,. Was at the airport, getting settled, headed into his arm, his hand. So he had one of these kind of rubbery things to strengthen his hand. The flight attendant came by and just said, what do you have in your hand? And just the words popped out, plastique - an explosive. He thought he was being funny. Within about two minutes they had the FBI on the plane.

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