SILA – is that which sets a limit to the “outgoing exuberance” in a person’s actions of body and speech and the responsibility for these actions and their results rests with the heart.
Good people do not like to associate with someone whose “outgoing exuberance” is not restrained by sīla, and nobody trusts him. In business and other affairs, even if there are only one or two people who have bad sīla and no sense of shame in their behaviour, it is certain that the social group in which they live and work cannot remain secure for long.
It is bound to be destroyed or set in disorder by them in whatever way they can, as soon as they have a chance when others are off their guard. It is like living with a fierce poisonous snake which is just waiting to bite whenever one is unprotected.
[pdf]http://www.dhammikaweb.com/pdfs/Wisdom-Develops-Samadhi.pdf[/pdf]
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