When dissatisfied with a person or a situation, do not waste your time cursing or reviling — for this is yet another form of accumulating demerit through unwholesome expression.
What, then, is the better way forward? When one is on the verge of cursing this person or that, reviling one person or another — does that person actually hear it? They do not. And who, then, does hear it? Oneself. The members of one’s household. One’s colleagues at work.
In that case, this is far the better course: whenever the impulse arises to curse anyone — whether in private, within a group, or within a community — chant the Dhammacakka instead. By doing so: first, one is spared from hearing inauspicious words arising from one’s own mouth; second, one incurs no demerit; and third, one gains merit as well.
March 1st, 2020
