1. When everything is smooth sailing, who needs patience?

    Comment January 25, 2021

    Patience is not learned in safety. It is not learned when everything is harmonious and going well. When everything is smooth sailing, who needs patience? If you stay in your room with the door locked and the curtains drawn, everything may seem harmonious, but the minute anything doesn’t go your way, you blow up. There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. ~ Pema Chödron

  2. Practice of patience and tolerance

    Comment April 11, 2016

    If you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which is a critical factor in counteracting negative emotions, it will be due to the combination of your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy. ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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  3. Patience — strength and clarity of mind

    Comment April 11, 2016

    Some people feel patience is showing weakness or pessimism. But, actually, patience shows the strength and clarity of mind, which are based on wisdom and compassion. Without proper wisdom and compassion, one cannot practice patience. Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche

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  4. The way that we relate to patience

    Comment March 17, 2016

    Normally the way that we relate to patience is that sometimes we can be patient and at other times we feel we cannot. The type of patience we need to cultivate is persistent patience, which means that we are patient when we can be patient and we are patient when we feel we cannot be patient. If we lack this, then we will have no way to overcome our kleshas because patience is the opposite of and the remedy to both anger and hatred. ~17th Karmapa

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  5. Just like dripping water

    Comment February 29, 2016

    Just like dripping water can penetrate stone,
    patience and persistence can break through anything
    no matter how great the difficulty.

    ~Master Cheng Yen

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  6. One moment of patience

    Comment December 5, 2015

    One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~ Chinese Proverb

    Meditation master Dejapanno, student of the most famous Meditation master Ketodhammo Som Bunthoeun.

    Meditation master Dejapanno, student of the most famous Meditation master Ketodhammo Som Bunthoeun.

  7. Patience is the highest virtue

    Comment March 23, 2015

    Buddha meditating

    He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me of my property. Whosoever harbor such thoughts will never be able to still their enmity.

    Never indeed is hatred stilled by hatred; it will only be stilled by non-hatred — this is an eternal law.

    — Dhp., vv. 4-5

    Do not speak harshly to anyone. Those who are harshly spoken to might retaliate against you. Angry words hurt other’s feelings, even blows may overtake you in return.

    — Dhp., v. 133

    Forbearance is the highest observance. Patience is the highest virtue. So the Buddhas say.

    — Dhp., v. 184

    Let a man remove his anger. Let him root out his pride. Let him overcome all fetters of passions. No sufferings overtake him who neither clings to mind-and-body nor claims anything of the world.

    — Dhp., v. 221

    Conquer anger by non-anger. Conquer evil by good. Conquer miserliness by liberality. Conquer a liar by truthfulness.

    — Dhp., v. 223

    Guard your mind against an outburst of wrong feelings. Keep your mind controlled. Renouncing evil thoughts, develop purity of mind.

    — Dhp., v. 233

     

    Buddha — Dhammapada

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