Cultivating Skilful Speech

Ellen says: It is important to regard our tongue as a servant. We are the masters, the tongue will do our bidding. The tongue will have to say what we want to say and not what it wants us to say. Unfortunately, for most of us, it is our tongue who is the master and we are its slave. We have to listen to what it speaks in our name and we seems unable to stop its wagging. The result of such lack of control is always disastrous.

Some people vows to observe silence after a bad experience of wrong speech. They guard their tongue so that no evil will escape from their lips. But if we live in society, can we maintain silence all the time?