3.4.2 What is Right Speech?*

 
And what, O’ Bhikkhus, is right speech? Abstaining from lying, abstaining from slander and backbiting, abstaining from harsh words and abstaining from frivolous talk. This, O’ Bhikkhus, is called right speech.

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* Vibhaṅgasuttaṃ cont.
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