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Right Speech
Views of the third step of the Eightfold Path from: Susan Piver Browne, Mudita Nisker, Roger Jackson, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Mirabai Bush and Stephen Smith
Right Speech, or sammavacha, is the third step of the Eightfold Path, which is the fourth and last Noble Truth preached by Shakyamuni Buddha. The following is a collection of classic and contemporary views of Right Speech.
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