Practicing Patience (Advice)
It is extremely effective to practice patience. That is why you have been able to stay a monk for so many years. Otherwise, your life could be something else.
It is extremely effective to practice patience. That is why you have been able to stay a monk for so many years. Otherwise, your life could be something else.
This is a lightly edited transcript of a handwritten note that was posted to an old student.
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A student was feeling negative about a member of the Sangha. Rinpoche responded with this advice, which he typed himself.
How to practice patience and avoid the eight worldly dharmas.
How practicing patience and the good heart brings peace and happiness.
Rinpoche: How is your friend now?
Student: My friend is practicing patience and not fighting with her husband and children.
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who was having difficulties with her sister.
When you are being sincerely kind to that person, usually they learn from you. Then they become kind to you, but sometimes it takes time.
Rinpoche wrote this letter to a student who was in severe pain and required constant care. Rinpoche had heard that the person sometimes became angry or frustrated with the caregivers.