EP22: Gossip & Slander
You can avoid incurring severe karmic debts by paying attention to petty actions. Do not gossip, nor encourage others to gossip, for both are negative karma and will attract immense pain and suffering when this karma matures.
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EP5: Karma – The Universal Law
While your positive thoughts produce positive effects, negative thoughts create negative effects on people and your surroundings. Like thoughts, spoken words carry power and good or bad, it tends to manifest.
EP4: Nature of Karma
Kind actions that benefit everyone create good karma and accumulate as karmic income whereas unrighteous actions that are harmful to all beings, create bad karma, thus adding up as karmic debt.