In China, there once lived a dharma teacher named Master Fo Yin. This teacher had a friend named Su Dong Po (1037–1101 CE), a poet of ill repute for his rude, quarrelsome character.
One day the poet sat down pretending to be Buddha. He asked the dharma teacher:
-Who do I look like?
“You look like Buddha,” answered Master Fo Yin.
The poet then said:
- Do you know who you look like? You look like a pile of crap!
The Dharma Master was not at all embarrassed by this. He still continued to smile. The poet, who had lost his courage, asked:
- How come you weren’t angry?
The monk replied:
“He who has realized the Buddha nature in himself sees the same Buddha nature in every person.” Someone who is full of crap sees everyone else as a pile of crap.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru