Tuesday, November 12, 2013

How to handle insult and maintain compassion??




One day Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him.

Young Man: You have no right teaching others. You are as stupid as everyone else and you are nothing but a fake.

Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man 

Buddha: Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take it, to whom does the gift belong?

The man was surprised to be asked such a strange question and answered

Young Man:  It would belong to me, because I bought the gift.


The Buddha smiled and said, “That is correct. And it is exactly the same with your anger. If you become angry with me and I do not get insulted, then the anger falls back on you. You are then the only one who becomes unhappy, not me. All you have done is hurt yourself.”

If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger and become loving instead. 

"When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy.”

If you are right then there is no need to get angry, And if you are wrong then you don’t have any right to get angry.