What is in an insult? Wars are created, fists go flying and blood is shed each day because of this short word. This is another example of something that does not really exist until we give it life. So someone calls us a name and we react because we relate to it being an ‘insult.’ So what if they call us the same name in another language which we don’t understand, do we still get insulted? So is an insult a word or how a person says it (intentions to hurt)?
An insult only exists because we ‘react’ to what someone else says and if we change our reaction then we change an insult into a compliment. Life is how you see things not always how they are.
Yogi Cameron
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on Nov 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Be like mirror the only reflects the pictures but not feeling anything? Be like cool water for fishes to live and swim? Be like the sun that shines to every lives? But Buddha suggests not to hang out with Bad people. Rule no.1 from 38 blessings for life.
“The goal is not to be better than everyone else; the goal is to be better than yourself.” Every time i try to educate others i told myself “educate myself” but great to learn from others. Thanks Cameron :p
Everyone is your teacher. They are your gifts, learn from them. Avoid bad people. They will want to be your friend later? Your choice ?:p
on Nov 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Marcus Aurelius:
“Get rid of the judgment, get rid of the ‘I am hurt,’ you are rid of the hurt itself.”
Thanks Cameron. Your blogs are so relevant at the right time.
on Nov 5th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Namaste!…..oh sweetness…..It’s always so enchanting to pull each other’s tails and call one another names….(I was listening to the song True Love’s Kiss yesterday,and i found these lines so fitting.)
I’ve been shaken up in totally different cultures in this world and languages too!So i too have been through the so called ‘cultural shock’ and knowing different languages and not understanding some languages,inspite of living in the place where it’s spoken,i could not even understand an insult.And what seems so rude to me in some cultures,i can only make use of to benefit myself from it.
An insult will only have an effect if we give it life,as Yogi Cameron says,that is when we pay attention to it and focus on it.If we don’t pay heed to the insult,then it was only an empty word someone spoke (to themeselves,perhaps..lol).
An insult is always something to do with the person who says the insult,(the person insulting),and not with the person being insulted. Because it always is about the anger,bitterness of the person saying the insult and therefore has only to do with themself.An insult is personal anger,anger against ones own self which is directed outward onto others,pushing away from oneself.Such angry people cannot see themselves. (They’re all draculas.) lol Their eyes are flaming with anger.There is no clarity to be seen there,only confusion.
About the nature of an insult,it is always the intention that counts.Even there it can easily be made out.And wicked intententions always turn back onto the person sending them out.
A protective technique is by putting on an invisible mirror around yourself everyday.That is a strong protection because the mirror reflects back everything.And when you do that,you will know what i am talking about.That is why i won’t explain everything,it is an experience - it should be your experience.This is just one technique.
And like Yogi Cameron says, ‘ change an insult into a compliment ‘.That is best done when you start using these kinds of protective techniques till your mind has re-programmed itself to learn to not react to an insult and to transform it into a compliment.The energies get transmuted on their way and you will be able to see it and it leaves the person saying the insult baffled.And when you learn to look at the other person,you will be able to see all that anger and confusion,then you will realize what you are about,if you have developed your mind,and become more aware and concious of higher understanding,you will be able to see and realize that.And that is when the insult turns to a compliment.All you have to do is focus on yourself,your own mind.
….i luv cats tails…they are the sweetest things…they can manipulate it however they like…just so fascinating….and those of big cats…they can even use it as a whip! oh..so best is to mastermind your own tail rather than pulling someone else’s tail!!!!!
And hugs to you Yogi Cameron!
on Nov 5th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
In Thailand, we try to anti the alcohol company that they try to get in stock market. Father, mother, or kids who drink alchol damage family and society. We should take the money for alcohol to build temple and school to teach morality and meditation. Then people are aware of their thoughts, words and action no to insult other, not even thinking.
But only compliment others, begins by finding the good things of that person. Like Cameron has the wisdom that bring people together and help everyone to grow spirually and physically. :p Bon
on Nov 5th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
There aren’t only verbal insults that exist.Another way of insulting a person is by not accepting them for what they are,and doing this on purpose,by not listening to them when they are speaking,normal conversation,and by making faces at them deliberately,and all this when there is no one else around,so one doesn’t even have a witness.To gang up against a person.And one of the worst things by disregarding their inner and outer beauty,for example by treating a woman so bad and crushing the femininity,by hitting,and bashing up a woman that bad.By purposely doing vulgar actions intentionaly and not giving one a chance to escape,so practically trapping one.Oh,by the way,there are also women who beat up men.So all this even vice-versa.
The only way of changing all this is by changing one’s own mind.The other may just be some bad energy from the universe and it won’t go away unless one moves from that spot by changing one’s own mind.And anybody waiting for anyone else to make them a compliment, - that is mind dependancy.I don’t suggest that one should never hear a compliment because it is also equally important to give another person a chance to express their good feelings.But it is upto oneself to train one’s own mind into being independant and therefore confident.One should never wait for others to tell one nice things.If one feels good and nice and beautiful,then one should be so independant in one’s own mind that it should just be self-explaining and one should just be oneslf!Each being has their own energy and it’s up to them to make it strong or be weak.