Human Development
Abstinence from verbal misconduct
Description:
Together with abstinence from bodily misconduct and abstinence from wrong livelihood, this is the mind's adverseness from evil-doing and has the characteristic of non-transgression, of not treading, in its particular field. Its function is shrinking from this field; its manifestation is not doing such things; its proximate cause includes faith, conscience or sense of shame, shame or sense of blame, contentment (fewness of wishes).Context:
One of the formations aggregate (mental coefficients) of Hinayana Buddhism, being listed among the inconstant states, and as secondary profitable (sometimes present in any profitable or profitable-resultant consciousness).<