Post by Sowelu on Nov 15, 2005 15:25:42 GMT -5
Buddha was passing through a village, and the people came and they insulted him. And they used all the insulting words that they could use--all the four-letter words that they knew. Buddha stood there, listened siltently, attentively, and then said:
"Thank you for coming to me, but I am in a hurry. I have to reach the next village, people will be waiting for me there. I cannot devote more time to you today, but tomorrow, coming back, I will have more time. You can gather again, and tomorrow if something is left that you wanted to say and have not been able to say, you can say it to me. But today, excuse me."
Those people could not believe their ears, their eyes: this man has remained utterly unaffected, undistracted. One of them asked, "Have you not heard us? We have been abusing you like anything, and you have not even answered?"
Buddha said, "If you wanted an answer, then you have come too late. You should have come ten years ago, then I would have answered you. But for these ten years I have stopped being manipulated by others. I am no longer a slave, I am my own master.
I act according to myself, not according to anyone else. I act according to my inner need. You cannot force me to do anything. It's perfectly good--you wanted to abuse me, you abused me. Feel fulfilled, you have done your work perfectly well. But as far as I am concerned, I don't take your insults, and unless I take them, they are meaningless."
~ from the book "Awareness" by Osho
"Thank you for coming to me, but I am in a hurry. I have to reach the next village, people will be waiting for me there. I cannot devote more time to you today, but tomorrow, coming back, I will have more time. You can gather again, and tomorrow if something is left that you wanted to say and have not been able to say, you can say it to me. But today, excuse me."
Those people could not believe their ears, their eyes: this man has remained utterly unaffected, undistracted. One of them asked, "Have you not heard us? We have been abusing you like anything, and you have not even answered?"
Buddha said, "If you wanted an answer, then you have come too late. You should have come ten years ago, then I would have answered you. But for these ten years I have stopped being manipulated by others. I am no longer a slave, I am my own master.
I act according to myself, not according to anyone else. I act according to my inner need. You cannot force me to do anything. It's perfectly good--you wanted to abuse me, you abused me. Feel fulfilled, you have done your work perfectly well. But as far as I am concerned, I don't take your insults, and unless I take them, they are meaningless."
~ from the book "Awareness" by Osho
