Mario Nistri:
... preventing them would probably require me being silent most of the times I would usually talk, wich I'm not doing because I'm not sure that it would end up being particoularly skillful.
That's exactly how I've reacted too -- including the uncertainty about skillfulness. On the one hand I often just think I should shut up completely and then I'll avoid harming people, or pissing them off (although I suspect I don't do that as often as I sometimes think). But on the other hand, many people have commented over time that they find what I say useful, and so I'm concerned I'd just be shutting up to make myself feel better. This isn't any kind of serious problem. Guinea worm, now
that's a serious problem! But I find it encouraging that perhaps the meditation is giving me an opportunity over time to mean I'm less harmful and more helpful to people.
That said, there's a further complication whereby this whole line of thought is a bit self-centered! I mean, it takes a degree of self-centredness to worry about how self-centered one is being. If only one could get rid of the whole pesky "self" shebang. Hmm, that
would be useful. Now, I wonder if there's a way to do that ...
Still, isn't it nice of me, to be so considerate of others, and to be concerned when I'm not? Gosh but I'm a decent fellow. You're all lucky to have me here. Watch and learn people, watch and learn.