How to deal with rude behavior

What do you do when someone behaves very rudely to you?

• Get upset
• React rudely back
• Get frustrated
• Run-away from and avoid the person or the situation
• Blame the person
• Preach to the person

None of these will in any way strengthen you.

Then what are the options? See rude behavior in this light:

• It indicates the intensity of their commitment
• It indicates the amount of stress and insensitivity
• It projects the up-bringing of the person
• It indicates a behavioral pattern
• It shows lack of knowledge
• It shows lack of observation of one's own mind and its sensations
• It shows you behavior to avoid
• It is an opportunity for you to welcome and absorb the rudeness
• It strengthens your mind
• It unconditions the love that you are

The next time when someone is rude to you, make sure you don't get upset. Just give back a broad smile. If you can digest the rudeness, nothing whatsoever can shake you.