PORTUGUES: O presente dos insultos
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Near Tokyo lived a great Samurai, now old, who decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people.
One afternoon, a warrior – known for his complete lack of scruples – arrived there. The young and impatient warrior had never lost a fight. Hearing of the Samurai’s reputation, he had come to defeat him, and increase his fame.
All the students were against the idea, but the old man accepted the challenge.
All gathered on the town square, and the young man started insulting the old master. He threw a few rocks in his direction, spat in his face, shouted every insult under the sun – he even insulted his ancestors.
For hours, he did everything to provoke him, but the old man remained impassive. At the end of the afternoon, by now feeling exhausted and humiliated, the impetuous warrior left.
Disappointed by the fact that the master had received so many insults and provocations, the students asked:
– How could you bear such indignity? Why didn’t you use your sword, even knowing you might lose the fight, instead of displaying your cowardice in front of us all?
– If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? – asked the Samurai.
– He who tried to deliver it – replied one of his disciples.
– The same goes for envy, anger and insults – said the master.
“When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.”
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I super like samurai and of course the lesson, it really answer some question in my mind and I feel a little better now.thanks
simply great:)!!!
Thank you so much Sir!! I wished I had that much patience before.. and I hope I’ll be able to have patience in the future..
Awesome paulo, its a good healing lession and the truth
awesome as usual .. thank u Paulo
Great…Regards
It is well said that” CSHAMA VEERASAYA BHUSHANAM” means that forgiveness is the quality of braves.The given insults if taken to heart wiilead us to anger, frustration, jelousy Therefore the true warrior have understood that the poison of revenge spread through the mind will spoil the soul as well. One dies more deaths than a sinner in one’s life time. The revenge makes one separated from his purpose of life. It is well said that an eye for an eye will turn this world into blind.Leaving a big mouth person is connected with none other than forgiveness, which is related with soul and its journey. It is the true identity of a warrior who has mastered his emotions. One than shall not involve in conspiracies. One should possess this to take lead in his own journey. We are incomparable to anything because we all have a different journey path with an assigned task. The quality of life and personality depends on essence of truthfulness and forgiveness . It keeps us away from negative thoughts and desperate feelings of revenge. The samurai has understood about his personality progress and he got less enemies and many friends that makes him famous, energetic and loveable. It takes away the anger and transforms one into Happy-go-lucky soul. The samurai has understood that forgiveness is like the language which one should speaks fluently. It is the connection between god and us.
We all want to live in a society of tolerance, patience, trust, honesty and love. Forgiveness is the key to all of the above. To err is human is basic motto of this world. We all do several mistakes at various places and some of them are real big mistakes which carries us to the way of destruction. Without adding forgiveness in our life we may not able to reach to our almighty and journey path for finding the destiny will be unending. The soul suffers when we do not trust the word ‘forgiveness’ and the torture of soul remains continue and uninterrupted. The holy saints knew that the fire of revenge would burn them inside and in the last only the loser would be one who could not forgive. During our journey we do lot of mistakes, sins and deeds which causes pain to others so we always believe when we will complete our own journey the God will accepts us and will pure us and takes us with him like a mother does for his child covered with mud. When we expect same from God than we must remember that this is what he expects from us.
How can I ask for forgiveness when I am not ready to do it to you?
We must always remember that forgiveness deals with our past and It may disturb or haunt us if we do not have close affiliation with our present. ON 08.06.2011 while watching TV news (which I generally don’t watch as they disturb me and I do not want to be happy over the pathetic situation of others as well) I saw that One African gentleman youth hit a Asian Sikh old man of 62 yrs because of his looks, turban, beard and told him as Osama Bin laden’s brother. It happened in a busy train where this Sikh gentleman was sitting and the youth wanted him to vacate the seat for him. I believe that the Sikh gentle man must have forgiven him as I am in totally favor of forgiveness and I believe that the path he chosen for his life as Sikh tells through Guru Nanak that forgiveness is the crafted work of god. We should always remember that whatever we are doing now will not ashamed us in future, only then we would be able to do justice. The pain caused by them when become unbearable or hurt our heart like a fire; we feel that the reason for this must be destroyed completely. We start moving in a specific direction with the aim to shoot the targeted person by any or every mean of tool for destruction. The revenge becomes unbearable and unsettle and all means end at one place i.e. Revenge. I connect this with our memory. The best way to forgive a person is to forget him at first instance. We should not give him a second which could remind of him. We must understand that some people do not exist for us as there will not be any existence therefore revenge will have no meaning. I know it is difficult but we must understand that whosoever has won over the emotions of enmity. Jealousy, lust etc has understood the universe in better manner.
This is what we have to do to accomplish the task assigned to us. We should remember this that it is not what we are doing for others; it is what we are doing for ourselves, for our own salvation.
(For detailed note to read about it you amy visit ‘arunaksarun’ on FB and read my note about FORGIVENESS.)
Loved your book “Manual of the Warrior of light” – introspected, shared with others – deep, lovely and broad.
regds
Suvro
The heavy load is gone after reading this article.
Just one word: WOW.
inspiring story
All the wisdom from each book you published and i already read, left me getting wiser day by day…. Mr. Paulo . you affected my life and my vision in life just as much :)
All my gratitude for you Sir !!!
Great peice of knowledge. Helps me a lot.
Great!
I love it !Thank you Mr.Coelho,is something for my ex-husband,now it will be easier for me to accept ;D
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