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In this talk Jinananda gives us some practical tips on good communication and healthy relationships. He brings in the Buddha’s words from the Sigalaka Sutta to illustrate some of the ways relationships were managed in the Buddha’s time. Pointing out that different kinds of relationships require different sets of duties and dynamic ways of relating, he notes that we should be mindful of how we are fulfilling those relationships from our own end.

Jinananda discusses the fact that even Buddhists, who are supposedly always kind and helpful, are not always so, even in stories from the Pali Canon. He reminds us, however, that this is normal, and that relating skilfully to each other is a truly immense challenge – difficult for even the most experienced Buddhists and not to be taken lightly.

Talk given at the West London Buddhist Center

"In olden days, the neophyte was forced into a prolonged silence. Speech was not permitted. This was inculcated as a check upon physical utterance of wrong words and ideas, based on inadequate knowledge. Today, the neophyte must learn the same lesson of attention to personal perfection and to personal work through the means of that inner silence which broods over the disciple and forces him to attend to his own work and business, leaving others free to do the same, and so learn the lesson of experience. A great deal of present right activity is hindered by the speech interplay between disciples, and much time is lost through wordy discussion of the work and activities of other disciples. Humanity, as a whole, needs silence at this time as never before; it needs time in which to reflect, and the opportunity to sense the universal rhythm." ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY VOLUME II by Alice Bailey.

Spiritual growth is not achieved by simply giving 30 minutes a day to meditation. It involves an hour-by-hour attempt, all day long and every day, to keep the consciousness at as high a level as possible. It presumes a determination to consider oneself at all times as the soul, and increasingly, as part of a group, with no interests or desires, aims or wishes apart from the good of that group. It necessitates a constant watchfulness every hour of the day to prevent falling back into the lower vibration.

"The practice of harmlessness is the best and easiest way for the aspirant to work. There is then nothing in him which is inimical to any life in any form, and he therefore attracts to himself only that which is beneficent. He uses the beneficent forces thus attracted for the helping of other beings. This has to be the first step, and the discipline it entails and the constant supervision of all the activities on the three planes of human evolution and of all reactions bring the emotional body under the dominance of the illumined mind. They also bring about the understanding of one's fellow men." TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC by Alice Bailey

"The purpose of all speech is to clothe thought and thus make our thoughts available for others. When we speak we evoke a thought and make it present, and we bring that which is concealed within us into audible expression. Speech reveals, and right speech can create a form of beneficent purpose, just as wrong speech can produce a form which has a malignant objective. " A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC by Alice Bailey

"The purpose of all speech is to clothe thought and thus make our thoughts available for others. Speech reveals, and right speech can unite, just as wrong speech can divide." A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC by Alice Bailey

"The purpose of all speech is to clothe thought and thus make our thoughts available for others. Speech reveals, and right speech can unite, just as wrong speech can divide." A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC by Alice Bailey

If harmlessness is the keynote of your life, you will do more to produce right harmonious conditions in your personality than any amount of discipline along other lines." A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC by Alice Bailey.

"If harmlessness is the keynote of your life, you will do more to produce right harmonious conditions in your personality than any amount of discipline along other lines." A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC by Alice Bailey.

"Let harmlessness be the keynote of your life... Study your emotional effect on others so that by no mood, depression, or emotional reaction can you harm" from the book A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC by Alice Bailey.

"The purpose of all speech is to clothe thought and thus make our thoughts available for others. Speech reveals, and right speech can unite, just as wrong speech can divide", from the book TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC by Alice Bailey.

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence but in restraint", a quote by Marianne Moore.