Friends:

Harmful is all Harsh Speech, which grows only Conflict & Hostility!
 

Once in Savatthi, the Blessed Buddha said this:

What, householder friends, is the Dhamma explanation befitting for oneself? Here, householder friends, any Noble Disciple reflects thus: If someone were to to address me with harsh speech, abusive, aggressive, offensive, ruthless & bitter, that would neither be pleasing nor agreeable to me. Similarly, if I were to address another with harsh speech, abusive, aggressive, offensive, ruthless & bitter, that would neither be pleasing, nor agreeable, nor acceptable to that other being either!

What is displeasing and disagreeable to me, is also displeasing and disagreeable to any other being too. How can I harm & hurt another being with what provoke annoy and exasperate myself? Having reflected repeatedly thus, then gradually:

1: He/she will carefully avoid all harsh, abusive, aggressive, & offensive speech...
2: He/she will persuade others also to abstain from all insulting & malign speech...
3: He/she will praise speaking only kind and gentle words worth remembering...
 

In this very way, is this advantageous verbal behaviour purified in 3 aspects!!
 

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:355] section 55: Sotāpattisamyutta. Thread 7: To the people at the Bamboo gate...
 

One should never harm other beings by Hurting them with Harsh Speech!
 

More on not whipping by speech, not stabbing with dagger-like words:

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Friendliness_Frees.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Doors.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Speech.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Anger_and_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Fourfold_Right_Speech.htm
 

 Avoid all Harsh & Aggressive Speech!!!
 

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