Read this phrase, memorize it, and then visualize it throughout your day:
"If you keep your mouth as silent as your nose, you will avoid ten thousand calamities."
—Zen Master Dōgen Zenji
The general advice is to think before you speak. Perhaps you merely need to practice patience.
What are your thoughts on this? Can you let us know more about these situations you get yourself into?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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