Many Ways To Cultivate Patience And Compassion
The practice of patience is the main door to enlightenment. Patience creates space to think and room to breathe. In an argument, patience creates a gap so that you may find a compromise or acceptance. Things just look a whole lot better when you view them with patience. Otherwise, your own desires will take over and anger will often burst forth! If we have patience, then we will never give up or be discouraged. We persevere and continue to think and do good things. We are able to think of others who are in the same situation as us, we send out our compassion to them in the hope that they will not have to suffer like we do. Patience is also extremely helpful whenever we are happy. It is easy to get carried away. You may be full of pride or find you are never quite satisfied and are looking for more. You may be easily jealous of others who are doing better than you. It is good to be happy, healthy, even wealthy, but with patience you will dispel your pride and realise how impermanent it all is. You will thank your good karma rather than your looks. Patience and tolerance require a great deal of thought and understanding. It's not easy to be tolerant in the face of things that go so acutely against our own morals, what we believe to be right versus wrong, good versus bad. When people behave, in your view, wrongly, then you cannot take it because it doesn't fit in with your view of the world. You want everything and everyone to fit in with you, while you also want to be left alone to be yourself. Generally speaking, we are very stubborn. Weare not easily influenced by these teachings, or even by what is happening in our lives every day. But remember, every single one of us, is in the same boat. ith patience in yourself you become more developed without giving up, without losing courage. You no longer let these things totally overcome and control you. You stop asking 'Why me?" You stop asking what more suffering will come tomorrow and instead ask yourself what you are going to do, how you are going to develop. It is not easy, but if you start with compassion then you will begin to see. For example, if someone is very nasty to you, there must be a reason. should look to have some knowledgeunderstandingof this person and whhe gets so irritated. Maybe he is very weak, maybe he doesn't understandor perhaps you did something to upshim. If you can understand the causethen you can defuse those burning emotions you feel. Even if he is actinvery badly and all you can do is walk away, you don't need to be attached to the situation, you don't need to carit with you. Be honest with yourself. When others speak ill of you, if what is saicnot true,you don't have to feel pity foyourself, let go and move on. If whatsaid has some truth to it,you can refland let go of anyregretful feeling. Leing to leave things behind is one oftenest practices to develop patience, arin turn compassion and wisdom.
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Many Ways To Cultivate Patience And Compassion
The practice of patience is the main door to enlightenment. Patience creates space to think and room to breathe. In an argument, patience creates a gap so that you may find a compromise or acceptance. Things just look a whole lot better when you view them with patience. Otherwise, your own desires will take over and anger will often burst forth! If we have patience, then we will never give up or be discouraged. We persevere and continue to think and do good things. We are able to think of others who are in the same situation as us, we send out our compassion to them in the hope that they will not have to suffer like we do. Patience is also extremely helpful whenever we are happy. It is easy to get carried away. You may be full of pride or find you are never quite satisfied and are looking for more. You may be easily jealous of others who are doing better than you. It is good to be happy, healthy, even wealthy, but with patience you will dispel your pride and realise how impermanent it all is. You will thank your good karma rather than your looks. Patience and tolerance require a great deal of thought and understanding. It's not easy to be tolerant in the face of things that go so acutely against our own morals, what we believe to be right versus wrong, good versus bad. When people behave, in your view, wrongly, then you cannot take it because it doesn't fit in with your view of the world. You want everything and everyone to fit in with you, while you also want to be left alone to be yourself. Generally speaking, we are very stubborn. Weare not easily influenced by these teachings, or even by what is happening in our lives every day. But remember, every single one of us, is in the same boat. ith patience in yourself you become more developed without giving up, without losing courage. You no longer let these things totally overcome and control you. You stop asking 'Why me?" You stop asking what more suffering will come tomorrow and instead ask yourself what you are going to do, how you are going to develop. It is not easy, but if you start with compassion then you will begin to see. For example, if someone is very nasty to you, there must be a reason. should look to have some knowledgeunderstandingof this person and whhe gets so irritated. Maybe he is very weak, maybe he doesn't understandor perhaps you did something to upshim. If you can understand the causethen you can defuse those burning emotions you feel. Even if he is actinvery badly and all you can do is walk away, you don't need to be attached to the situation, you don't need to carit with you. Be honest with yourself. When others speak ill of you, if what is saicnot true,you don't have to feel pity foyourself, let go and move on. If whatsaid has some truth to it,you can refland let go of anyregretful feeling. Leing to leave things behind is one oftenest practices to develop patience, arin turn compassion and wisdom.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Gyalwang Drukpa kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Gyalwang Drukpa Speaking Tree,Times of India