When Buddha, the enlightened one, has left the palace to enrol into his journey towards acquiring more knowledge of suffering, and therefore towards enlightenment, he made his choice on his own, knowing exactly the consequences of his decision to the lifestyle he would be experiencing later on. When we’re facing dishonoured, dishonest, and deceptive people, we need to keep consciousness at hand to realise and understand that our well-being is the crucial foundation we cannot let anyone corrupt, which implies that we need to be prepared to jump out from the illusions we may be living deep within, in a similar way that Buddha, the enlightened one, has done when he decided to leave the palace and the contact and comfort of its associated luxury. If we aren’t prepared to perform that choice, consciously and meaningfully, those dishonoured, dishonest, and deceptive people would attempt to make a person they consider an inferior being as their guinea pig, which in the long run will be ...