The Buddha said about BLAME:
This, Atula, is an ancient saying, yet timeless, and thus relevant even
today:
They blame the one, who talks much. They blame the one, who says little.
They even blame the silent one... No-one in this world is never blamed!
Dhammapada Illustration 227
Background Story 227-230
FACT
There never was, nor will there ever be, nor does there exist one now,
who is only praised
by all others, or solely blamed, by all others ....
Dhammapada Illustration 228
Background Story 227-230
PRAISED
The one examined carefully by the wise, yet still praised as peerless,
wise, learned, and genuinely good, like a ring of refined gold, who can
ever rightly blame such one? Even the divine
Brahmas praise such one!
Dhammapada Illustration 229-30
Background Story 227-230
Comments:
The Buddha once asked his students, "And what is right speech?
Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech,
and from
idle empty chatter: This is called right speech."
SN
45.8
He also taught: "Monks, a statement endowed with five factors is
well-spoken,
not ill-spoken. It is blameless and faultless by knowledgeable people. Which
five?
It is true. It is well timed. It is kind. It is advantageous.
Spoken from a good-will."
AN
5.198
Video on
Truth always Triumphs!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krgCDM-We0
More on Right Speech (Sammā-Vācā):
What is Right
Speech?,
Fourfold_Right_Speech,
Not_Splitting,
Optimal_Observance_IV,
Truth_Triumphs,
Not_Scolding,
Not_Deceiving,
Not_Gossiping,
Samma-Vaca,
What_to_Say.
