ABSTRACT
A human being has three ‘doors’ of communication: mind, speech and body. The practice of meditation mostly concerns the first of these which, although it controls the other two, cannot be treated apart from them. So if one wishes to set the mind-heart in order then speech and body must be trained in the same direction. All should be trained according to Dhamma, that is in the way that brings happiness and wisdom to one’s own heart, as well as benefitting others. When mind, speech and body go along generally in the same direction then an absence of conflicts will be felt and some degree of peace. For this reason in this book the basic necessities for the training of one’s speech and body actions are given in some detail before coming to meditation.
