Story One.
The Buddha was walking across a village one morning as usual on his daily journey when the people of the village came out and started abusing him and hurling insults. The Buddha stood silently waiting for the tirade to end, and when it did, he asked quietly, ' Are you all done, because I have to go to the next village'. Story Two The Buddha went on his morning routine of asking for biksha, (it's a practice monks follow to get food, they go door to door and take whatever the owners hand out). For some reason the owner of the house seemed to be in a nasty mood. He came out with some rice, abused the Buddha, and proceeded to put the rice into the Buddha's begging bowl. The Buddha said: 'If I don't accept this rice you've given me, who does it belong to?' The man said, 'why it belongs to me.' The Buddha continued, 'Now if I don't accept the abuse you've been directing, who does it belong to?' So saying, he returned the rice and went on his way, leaving the foul mouthed man with a valuable lesson. These two lessons from an interesting contrast with the snake story where he advised the snake to hiss not bite.
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