Stories about insults
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about insults from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- She called me a pig — three more timesAnalogy · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: If someone calls you a pig and you keep replaying it — she's got no right, why did she — a wise person sees you've just let her call you a pig three more times. Every memory is…
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If someone calls you a pig, what do most people do? They keep reflecting on that. She called me a pig. She's got no right to call me a pig. Why did she call me a pig? And a wise person realizes you've just allowed her to call you a pig three more times. Every time you remember it, they're calling you a pig one more time
- “You're old enough to know better”Story · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Walking in robes through Doncaster early one morning with Ajahn Sumedho, about 20 years his senior, a businessman on his way to work looks at them with disgust and says to Ajahn…
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I was walking through the streets of um what's it uh Doncaster in the north of London many years north of England many years ago. And uh you know, wearing our robes, I was with this monk Ajahn Sumedho. He was about 20 20 years uh older than me. And this guy came up in this suit, a business guy and he's way to work early in the morning. And he looked at us, you know, really with disgust. But he turned on this Ajahn Sumedho, looked at him and said, "You're old enough to know better." And I was young enough to be stupid, but this guy he was now 40. That's a great comment.