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A very angry and rude young man began insulting Buddha. “You have no right teaching others, You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.”
Buddha 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.”
“When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy.”