• 5 months ago
Full Video: How to stop taking things personally? || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)
Transcript
00:00Anyone can come and possess you through praise.
00:04Someone comes and says, oh you are great, and he has had you.
00:07And someone comes and says, oh you are obnoxious, and this one too has had you.
00:12Right? Now someone comes and says, oh you are ugly.
00:15The thing is, you did not even choose to be pretty, how can you choose to be ugly?
00:19Nobody chooses her color, nobody chooses her height.
00:22Someone comes and says, oh you deceived me.
00:25Someone comes and says, oh you are simply incompetent.
00:28Learn to take yourself with more than a pinch of salt.
00:33I am ugly, fine. Here is a joke on ugliness.
00:37You are not important. Nobody is ever important.
00:41There is dust on the table, right?
00:44You know what that dust is?
00:47That dust was a person one day.