Patience
From TheBuddhism.Net
Patience means endurance, the highest form of endurance in the face of suffering which may be inflicted upon oneself by others; and it means forbearance of others’ wrongs. A Bodhisatta practices patience to the extent that not even when his hands or feet are cut off will he become provoked.
Knowing that the Law is our great helper if we live by it, and that no harm can come to us if we work with it, knowing also that it blesses us just at the right time, we learn the grand lesson of patience, not to get excited, and that impatience is a check to progress.
Only cultured people can have a mostly right attitude, and can therefore be very patient.
They can be patient because through experience and being cultured they can see the right side of life, the right side of things; they have consideration for others, sympathy, they reason and therefore do not easily become angry.
Such people can be very patient, very reasonable.
Knowing how and why we differ in thought and outlook on life, we are able to make ample allowances for all types of people and are thus able to live more harmoniously with others. Patience brings forth peace, success, happiness and security.
Right understanding, patience, tolerance, goodwill and loving-kindness, the elementary principles of Buddhism, may be difficult for the average person to practise, but we should be trying to rise above the average.
As a Buddhist one should never be impatient with others if one cannot see things from their point of view. One should be tolerant towards all, even the intolerant, and remember that what seems to be proof to one person does not always seem to be so to another.
Once we have identified our own character, and judged the most dominant aspect in us, we can choose an object for meditation that will help us. If, for instance, we are very quick-tempered, the object must be one that will help us to be patient. To make us patient we should choose something opposite such as goodwill or peace, or love (metta).
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Patience goes counter to our instincts. Patience is something which must be learned and practiced from young. Teaching children to be patience helps to build value around and thus aiding in development of their moral system. Learning to be patience is a good move at the end of the day, those who are patience enough pays off. Always remain calm, even when we have been waiting forever or dealing with something painstakingly slow. Waiting quietly for things to happen in their own time, is a good trait to have. Patience Is a Virtue.
Thank you Rinpoche for this teachings.
Thank you for posting Rinpoche and for sharing the merit of great virtues which is indeed Patience. Enjoying randomly entering into the search, various aspects of the teaching embodied with one word, hence discovering this short blog entry from thebuddhism.net. Reading and meditating on the Shantideva’s Bodhisattvacharyavatara, and your commentary of Geshe Langri Tangpa’s Eight verses of Thought Transformation, through ‘Compassion Conquers All’, has been helpful to understand the necessity of patience and it’s constant application should we achieve any goal on the path toward enlightenment. Thank you for this encouragement you have patiently shown for all of us, pointing out the direction of worthwhile things along the way. Grateful for your compassion, may you be well and always remain to turn The Wheel of the Dharma, always at the helm enabling others to cross a sea of sorrows to the shores of liberation. Sarva Mangalam!
I just began to realised that I need to practice patience. i need to work on my impatience to deal with people and my personal life. Will learn to take it easy and just go with the flow. Come what may. Thank you Rinpoche for this enlightening teaching ???
Patience is very different from tolerance, tolerance we allow something to happen because we have to. But patience we mindfully acknowledge what is happening and we endure it.