The
Detrimental and Advantageous topics of Conversation:
The disadvantageous subjects of
bestial
conversation are:
conversation about kings, robbers, and ministers of state, armies,
alarms, and battles, food and drink,
clothing, furniture, garlands, and scents, relatives, vehicles,
villages, towns, cities, the countryside,
women and heroes, the gossip of the street and the well, tales of the
dead, tales of diversity,
the creation of the world and of the sea, talk of whether things exist
or not.
The 10 advantageous subjects of
conversation are:
Talk on the Modesty of having few wants,
Talk on the Bliss of Contentment,
Talk on the
Joy of Seclusion,
Talk on the Ease of Disentanglement,
Talk on the
Energy of Enthusiasm,
Talk on the Advantage of Morality,
Talk on the Calm of Concentration,
Talk on the Insight of Understanding,
Talk on the Freedom of Release,
Talk on the Direct Knowledge and Vision of Release ...
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For other detrimental subjects of
conversation see:
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.069.than.html
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