Wrong speech is just like putting a wrong program into your computer. Your computer has the right program -- let it work. With wrong speech you are putting in another program, a wrong program. The computer begins to go berserk. You give commands and they are not obeyed. You do your accounting and your accounting comes out entirely wrong because you have two programs working against each other. You do not need that.
Every time you are thinking wrong things, you are distorting, disturbing your computer. It is not a matter of legality or ethics; it is just your physical instrument, just your health that you are distorting. Do not do that.
If you disturb your computer, let us say little by little for one year, that little by little accumulates and becomes a big bug in there and nobody can heal it. From the beginning say, "I am going to talk about things that are beautiful, things that are righteous, things that are related to goodness and freedom and joy and striving and service and sacrifice and harmony, and so on."
When you start talking about these things and thinking and feeling about these things, you will see that in your nature lots of forces are fighting against you -- forces of habits from your families, and karmic causes where you were so bad in the past that it is not easy now to be good. Those forces are still hanging on you like an octopus. Then you have lots of subconscious urges and drives that are coming from different lifetimes. They attack you.
It is not easy to find yourself, but as you start doing it, you will see that you are gaining ground, and once you gain ground, you see for the first time how your health is changing and how your brain is really illuminated. It is so interesting.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Meditation vol.2
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