Working on Right Speech

TheFound

So here I was thinking I was getting really "good" at being Buddhism...until I went over to my friends house to play some video games..

Him and I play online together we have two screens and two game consoles next to each other, and we team up against other people in war games etc.. and I began swearing my head off at every little thing that didn't go my way..
This habit I've built up over I don't know more than a decade since my little mario fell into a pit in the late 1980's...

My friend does it too of course, but the things that we say are just nuts, we spare no religion, race or creed with our verbal abuse... sometimes on the microphone, sometimes just between us..

I felt and continue to feel like an ass, because I'm having a hard time breaking the habit..
Any tips?

federica

Find a different friend to hang out with.

It's a herding instinct. Like is attracted to like, but the Buddha advised us to not consort with fools. You fall to an equal standard, but you're also judged by the company you keep....
if you perpetuate a habit, you're not going to break it - are you?

ownerof1000oddsocks

But we're all fools. We're still quite primitive as a species and modern entertainment plays upon our 'primitive brain'.

Don't consort with yourself; avoid too much self indulgence.

TheFound

I'm doing a bit better with the coarse language!
What I found out was that, if you laugh at the things that bother you instead of getting worked up or annoyed, you just laugh instead of the use of profanity.. of course im talking about little things that don't even deserve or require words..or a second thought.. like losing at video games or dropping water on my feet today at work..

TheFound

I think a zen master said "when things can no longer offend, your entire world changes"