Patience is the Highest Praxis ... !!!

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Patience is the Sixth Mental Perfection:

 

The characteristic of patience is acceptance, it's function is to endure, and it's manifestation is non-opposing tolerance!The cause of patience is understanding how things really are..The effect of patience is calm tranquillity despite provocation..Patience of the Will produce forgiving forbearance!Patience of the Intellect produce faithful confidence!Internal Tolerance of states within oneself is patient endurance.External Tolerance of other beings is forbearance & forgiveness.

He who patiently protects himself, protects also others. He who patiently protects others, protects also himself.

Not from speaking much is one called clever.The patient one, free from anger, free from fear,only such one is rightly called clever. Dhammapada 258

Patient tolerance is the highest praxis...Nibbana is the supreme state!!!So say all the Buddhas. Dhammapada 184

The innocent one, who has done nothing wrong,who patiently endures abuse, flogging & evenimprisonment, such one, armed with endurance,the great force of tolerance, such one,I call a Holy One. Dhammapada 399

One should follow those who are determined,tolerant, enduring, intelligent, wise, diligent,clever, good-willed and Noble. One shall stick to them as the moon remains in it's regular orbit. Dhammapada 208

Friends, even if bandits were to cut you up, savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, you should not get angry, but do my bidding: Remain pervading them & all others with a friendly awareness imbued with an all-embracing good will, kind, rich, expansive, & immeasurable! Free from hostility, free from any ill will. Always remembering this very Simile of the Saw is indeed how you should train yourselves. Majjhima Nikaya 21

Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which any irritation can be entirely removed by a bhikkhu, when it arises in him.What are the five?1: Friendliness can be maintained towards an irritating person or state..2: Understanding can be maintained towards an irritating person or state..3: On-looking equanimity can be maintained towards an irritating person orstate.. 4: The forgetting and ignoring of an irritating person or state can bepracticed.. 5: Ownership of Kamma in an irritating person can be reflected upon thus: This good person is owner of his actions, inherit the result his actions, is born of his actions & only he is responsible for his actions be they good or bad. This too is how annoyance with the irksome can be instantly removed. These are the five ways of removing annoyance, by which irritation can be entirely removed in a friend just when it arises... Anguttara Nikaya V 161 Rahula, develop a mind like earth, then contacts of arisen like and dislike do not obsess your mind! Rahula, on the earth is dumped both pure & impure, excreta, urine, saliva, pus, blood, but the earth does not disgust any of those...Even & exactly so make your mind like earth! Rahula, develop a mind like water, then contacts of arisen pleasure and pain do not seize your mind. Rahula with water both the pure and the impure are cleaned... Washed away with water are excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and blood, yet water does not despise any of that!Even so craft the mind like water. Rahula, develop a mind like fire, then contacts of arisen attraction & aversion do not consume nor hang on your mind! Rahula, fire burns both the pure and the impure, burns excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and blood yet fire does not loathe any of that.. In the same manner refine the mind like fire! Rahula, develop a mind similar to space, then contacts of arisen delightand frustration do not take hold of nor remain in your mind. Rahula, space does not settle anywhere! Similarly make the mind unsettled & unestablished like open space. When you expand a mind like space, contacts of delight & frustration will neither dominate nor obsess your mind. Majjhima Nikaya 62

 

 

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