Peace

[sarals]

Buddha on Handling Criticism

A man met him on the street one day and began to call him mean and ugly
names. Buddha listened quietly and thoughtfully until the man ran out of
epithets, and had to pause for breath.

"If you offer something to a man and he refuses it, to whom does it
belong?" asked Buddha.

The spiteful man replied, "It belongs, I suppose, to the one who offered
it."

Then Buddha said, "The abuse and vile names you offer me, I refuse to
accept."

The man turned and walked away."