This is the world where lives inhabitants who differ in the form of color, skin, religion, tradition, personality, etc. It is like an ocean in which exist various fishes and animals. So we all have different looks, different view, different interest, different culture, and goes on and on.
We often use unpleasant words when we feel unsatisfied, or angry or in bad mood. And it is often as a result that the mindfulness is not maintained properly.
Unpleasant words include blame and criticism. We blame other because we don’t accept our fault. We criticize when we don’t like.
We feel relieve when we use unpleasant words. But how do we feel when other use unpleasant words against us? Of course we get angry. So they feel the same like us.
By judging external appearance, we differentiate beauty and ugly. We then use unpleasant words including racism. The unpleasant words we use is to annoy others.
When we talk about beauty, we talk about our skin. Our skeletons are covered by the skin, and we call our skin as beauty or ugly. Also, external beauty is merely composition of skin and cosmetics. This beauty is uncertain as our volatile bodies subject to fat, skinny, ugly, old, etc.
Nevertheless, the real beauty lies inside us, which is kind and gentle. What we see normally is external beauty, not the internal beauty. Internal beauty is real beauty. So we can create this beauty inside our mind.
The unpleasant words bring out undesirable effect which we will experience one day. The king Selgyal had a daughter called Dorje. She had repulsive looking; jagged skin like tiger's skin, and hair very rough. The king, unpleasant, confined her daughter in an inaccessible room. Later, the king arranged marriage of her daughter to a poor officer; he gave them provisions that lasted for their whole life. The King told him not to expose her to anyone. Once, there was a party in which every officers and their families took part. When he was alone, some wondered why he did not bring his wife. When the man was drunk, a fellow stole his key, and send some assistant to check on his wife.
At that time, wife Dorje thought, "What kind of sin I committed? I had to live in a dark place and never seen the sun and the moon. If Buddha really protect and help those tormented by suffering, I offer prostration to him." She then deeply wished the Buddha show his face to her. The Lord Buddha came to know her wish and appeared in her room. Buddha first showed his hair. She was so elated that it purified her thoughts, and her hair turned into smooth and colorful. By seeing Buddha's face and body she transformed into a gorgeous woman. She looked like a daughter of god.
The assistants were stunned to see the gorgeous wife. They decided that her beauty was the reason to keep her in solitary.
She told her husband about the Buddha. After sometime, the king heard the story. All of them including the King developed great faith to Buddha, to whom they asked the reason of why Dorje turned into a gorgeous woman. Buddha said: There was a rich man in Varanasi. He did offering to a very ugly monk, the frequent visitor to his home. The rich man had a daughter, and she said the monk was very ugly whenever he comes. The daughter was the wife Dorje. Buddha added that it is the result of the fault of speech.
So it is really perilous to say unpleasant words to our fellow human. As a result of unpleasant words, we can’t avoid to accumulate un-virtuous that has to be faced someday. If you don’t believe in Karma—the law of cause and effect, then it is different matter.
