Do You Still Get Angry?
From TheBuddhism.Net
One day Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. “You have no right teaching others,” he shouted. “You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.”
Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man “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, “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.”
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Simple and profound teaching..sometime in life we let our feeling control us, we didn’t see the thing until someone point out, just like what Buddha did to the young man
Thanks Rinpoche for sharing
Simple and yet meaningful story. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else, but we are the one who gets burned instead. Anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing but it can destroy everything. Letting go is the best choice.
Thank you Rinpoche for this teachings.
There is no reason to be angry and bitter when you can just move on and be happy. Let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.
Thanks for the Buddha’s story telling.
Anger is one of the three poisons that are the cause of the cycle of samsara and rebirth. We should be honest to ourselves when there anger arises, don’t suppress, run away, deny it or feed it with trying to get the anger out of our system.
For myself, when anger arises, I will remind myself to be patient and leave a room or space for the situation, I am not going to react on the anger. In my own experience sometime silence can help.
Lastly, thanks for the quote, “If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger and become loving instead. When you hate other, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy.”
Humbly with hand folded,
NgJesvin
Clever and full of wisdom such is Buddha’s words. If you do not accept the gift the gift still belongs to the giver.