OUR INNER QUALITY IS SHOWN IN OUR ACTIONS AND SPEECH

OUR INNER QUALITY IS SHOWN 

IN OUR ACTIONS AND SPEECH

  – Ven. Ajahn Chah

 

Buddhism can be likened to a tree. 

A tree has roots, a trunk, branches, twigs and leaves. All the leaves and branches, including the trunk, depend on the roots to absorb nutriment from the soil and send it out to them. In the same way as the tree depends on the roots to sustain it, our actions and our speech are like branches and leaves, which depend on the mind, the root; absorbing nutriment, which it then sends it out to the trunk, branches and leaves.

These in turn bear fruit as our speech and actions. Whatever state the mind is in, skilful or unskilful, it expresses that quality outwardly through our actions and speech.