On weapons of the mouth (mukhasattīhi):
"They kept on arguing, quarreling, & disputing, wounding one another with weapons of the mouth, saying, 'The Dhamma is like this, it's not like that. The Dhamma's not like that, it's like this.'"
Paṭhamanānātitthiya Sutta



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Spitting daggers.

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"There is the case where a monk, having gone to the wilderness, to the root of a tree, or to an empty dwelling, considers thus..."
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"‘Is there any internal subjugation unabandoned in me that, subjugated by which, my subjugated mind would not know or see things as they have come to be?’"
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"…If a monk is given to arguing and quarreling and disputing, stabbing others with weapons of the mouth, then his mind is subjugated." Kosambiyā Sutta
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Replying to @memeristor
No need!
This just so happens to have spontaneously arisen in today's contemplations.
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