Post by XANTO on Jun 23, 2011 19:31:48 GMT
Anyone who does not lose his temper, never gets excited whatever be his achievement, never gets angry whatever be the provocation, is a deeply spiritual person, whether or not he believes in God, whether or not he prays. He is the man to listen to and follow as he alone is enlightened. Buddha is an example. There is a story that someone spat at him and he just smiled and cleaned his face without any ill feeling towards the person who did it.
xanto
Buddha was passing by a village, and some persons gathered there. They were against him, and they insulted him. Buddha listened, and then he said, "I am to reach to the other village in time, so can I go now? If you have said whatsoever you have come to say, if it is finished, then I can move. Or, if you have to say something more to me, while returning I will wait here. You can come and tell me."
Those persons were just surprised. They couldn't understand. They had been insulting him, using bad words, abusing him, so they said, "But we are not saying something to you, we are abusing and insulting you.
" Buddha said, "You can do that, but if you want any reaction from me you have come late. Ten years before, if you had come with such words, I would have reacted. But now I have learned how to act, I am a master of myself now; you cannot force me to do anything. So you will have to go back. You cannot disturb me; nothing can disturb me now because I have known my own center."
This knowledge of the center or this grounding in the center makes you a master
Those persons were just surprised. They couldn't understand. They had been insulting him, using bad words, abusing him, so they said, "But we are not saying something to you, we are abusing and insulting you.
" Buddha said, "You can do that, but if you want any reaction from me you have come late. Ten years before, if you had come with such words, I would have reacted. But now I have learned how to act, I am a master of myself now; you cannot force me to do anything. So you will have to go back. You cannot disturb me; nothing can disturb me now because I have known my own center."
This knowledge of the center or this grounding in the center makes you a master
xanto
