Insult and ego
If you feel easily offended are you sure that your ego is still the boss, because your true self can not be offended because it is complete, nothing human is alien to him also not negative.
If someone would call me an asshole I say thank you and that I can indeed sometimes just sometimes a jerk, but are usually friendly.
The ego has created an idealized self-image that must be defended at all costs and must be maintained, that illusion rather than reality says the ego malchines illusion called reality.
Freud said very nice: "We are better than we know, but worse than we think '
Ask yourself but what is the worst that they can say to you and give it a place in your being, then you control that aspect instead of it controlling you. What we niert aware of dominated us Freud saw good.
As long as you're offending you let your thoughts and especially feelings determine the other and you are not free but a victim. The master can laugh at an insult and let there not upset his thoughts and feelings..
The Buddha was once insulted and a student asked why the Buddha was not hurt. The Buddha said,: "It's like a gift that is offered when the offender still does not accept it in his hand '
Emotions are judgments. If I do not believe I am offended, I can not be angry – Robert Solomon
A man asked a wise: ‘Wat is egotisme?’
The sage said: "What a fool you are glad you asked!’
Insulted the man became very angry at the way,
the manner in which said: "It is now egotism!’
If you are offended by a remark that's probably because it is a truth which you do not want to, there is a side of you is triggered you have repressed and now project into the other. Usually that your shadow side, Negative part. Lao Tse said that true words are not nice. The Bible says the truth will set you free, I might add that the truth will make you mad first. Nietzsche zei: ‘Hoeveel waarheid kan een mens verdragen, how much truth he ventures?!!’
Name a common man mean and he will soon prove you right, call a realized human being mean and he will smile and not be offended or hurt, saying that he can indeed sometimes be mean masr that is usually not.
Eem woman once called dumb blonde and she went there to in order to prove the opposite, reinforcing only the observation of the other. I told her of mental judo, move with the push of another, so do not push back but draw, with mental judo is that exaggerate the offense and in the case of the dumb blonde say that she is much worse much more stupid and do nothing, the cathedral is to dance for the devil and do not even understand this remark of the offender.
A woman whom I had taught the spiritual judo applied it she had a collision and then said,: "I'm Godzilla himself, a monster, devils "and she told me that no one has ever been as silent as her opponent.
A samurai asked a manner that the heavens and what the hell is
The way the samurai insulted by calling him a fool and idiot
to cut off the head of the way the samurai drew his sword and was ready. "So this is hell," said the wise. The samurai saw that made his sword and asked the sage if he would teach him. "And that's heaven," said the wise.