What are the benefits of not being so speechless?

As the saying goes, a gentleman talks but doesn't do it. Although eloquence and eloquence are both capable things, it is common for disasters to come out of the mouth. Let's look at the top ten benefits of talking less.

First, be good at protecting your mouth and don't be sarcastic to him.

Really "be good at protecting your mouth and not mocking others", so that you can do your best to repair the top ten and accumulate the wealth of the past.

At the same time, it can prevent the loss of a little bit of hard-earned blessings from the mouth, and it can also avoid the troubles and disasters caused by oral words, and largely cut off the karma on the Bodhi road.

Second, it can avoid committing the felony of breaking the Six Honors and destroying the Dharma Dojo.

As the saying goes, "people are flat and speechless, flat and not flowing", and the Book of Changes also says that "auspicious people are silent". Ordinary people like gossip, in fact, because the inner troubles of greed and laziness are too heavy, and they feel uncomfortable if they don't say it. They are always looking for topics to entertain themselves. People who like to talk too much are really absent-minded Moreover, it can be explained that he has almost no consciousness and has not really given birth to the heart of the three realms from life and death.

If a real monk is always ashamed, he will cherish his time and devote himself to listening to, lecturing on, reading, chanting and worshiping Buddha.

Since what most people say is caused by troublesome habits, it will inevitably do more harm than good to others and lack sincerity and respect. If you don't know, it will mislead and hurt people, so many small frictions will turn into big frictions, and finally the harmony between them will be destroyed. Therefore, you have committed the crime of destroying the Six Honors, and you often don't know it yourself. Since the six statues were broken, it certainly destroyed the Buddhist Dojo, interfered with the normal study of others, and created a bad learning atmosphere. This crime is definitely not light.

Third, you can improve your humiliation skills.

Ordinary people have a very heavy habit, that is, they worry, complain when things go wrong, and people who don't like it try their best to correct criticism.

For example, if you see someone talking too loudly, you want to stop him. If you see someone closing the door rudely and making a loud noise, you want to correct him. If you don't flush after urinating, you want to criticize him.

You can avoid these mistakes by stopping talking, forcing yourself to be patient with everything and overcoming your troubles and habits. Gradually, you will "see others and only yourself", and gradually you will understand that "there is no ugliness in the environment, but ugliness is in people's hearts", and your heart will gradually stop being turned by the outside world.

Fourth, I can improve my sincerity and respect, and I can get greater blessings from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

More sincere respect means more elimination of evil, more happiness and wisdom, and more blessings from buddhas and bodhisattvas. Stopping talking is the joy of Buddha and Bodhisattva, and it is the performance of insisting on teaching. Compared with not practicing, I have greatly improved my sincere respect for Buddhism, Dharma, sentient beings and Taoism.

Fifth, you can improve your vigilance.

Because of silence, there will be less interference from others, so there will be more spirit to take care of your intentions, and troublesome habits will be quickly detected and put out as soon as they appear. Over time, troublesome habits are under control. At the same time, it is often easier to detect your own shortcomings and mistakes and correct them quickly.

Sixth, can effectively protect their purity.

If you don't talk to people for a long time, people won't talk to themselves, and you don't have to deal with people often, so you will be less affected, and you will have more time to listen to classics, read classics and read books. You will be indifferent to everything, and there will be no worries in your heart. Your heart will always remain ethereal, and your heart will become cleaner and wiser. Reprinted by Baidu, these are the benefits of talking less.