Mind your own Business

It is blissful to be able to attend to your own affairs without entertaining doubts about others. Here is the Buddha's advice:-

"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others, but let one see one's own acts, done and undone."

"He who is always observant of others' faults, and irritable, increases his own defilements. He is far from the destruction of defilements."

"The faults of others are easily seen, but one's own is difficult to see. One winnows others' fault like chaff, but hides one's own as a crafty fowler covers himself."

No one is free from blame and criticism. The Buddha said, "People blame others for their silence. They blame those who talk too much and those who talk in moderation. There is, therefore, no one in this world who is not blamed."

He further said, "There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, anyone who is wholly blamed or wholly praised."

Not all who criticise you are your enemies. You can use their remarks to find out the weaknesses in yourself which you cannot see. You should not give up good work just because of criticism. If you can admit your own weaknesses, indeed you have the intelectual strength to succeed.

"The noble ones swerve not from the right path, let happen what may and no longer crave after worldly joys. The wise ones remain calm and constant in mind, alike in joy and in sorrow."