An Important Story My Father Once Told Me
Oct 19, 2008 | Categorized Under: Buddhism | | CommentsSo believe me this story is real, but it happened centuries and centuries ago. There was a highly spiritual teacher who once performed a weird thing to prove his point to an ignorant person who didn’t believe in spirituality, of course in this case it was Buddhism.
This teacher was washing the outer part of a basin that has feces inside, so this ignorant guys goes onto make fun and laugh at him for just washing the outside and not the inside, which was more important. The teacher was doing this to prove a point that physical rituals such as cleaning your body or being nice verbally or nworshipping Gods isn’t really as important as keeping our inner self clean and following Buddha’s teachings such as compassion and concept of interdependence.
This could be one of the reason why I don’t greet as often as other people do, but this should be actually totally irrelevant to the above story since it doesn’t ask you to stop being nice or remain positive outside; I think the purpose of the story is to acknowledge that our inner mindset and emotions are of more importance. We are drawing a comparison, in a sense.