Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, 'If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?' 'Why, it stays with me, of course,' the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, 'And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse,' he said. 'I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you.'