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EXTRACT Practice Patience by Remembering Karma 08-May-2018

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Channel: FPMT · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes a useful method for developing our practice of patience. It consists of reflecting on how everything that we experience is the result of our past actions.

So, when something happens to us that we don’t like, we should think about how it is the result of our negative karma, our nonvirtuous actions in the past. That is the best way to think and then you don’t get angry, Rinpoche says. Think that it is your mistake, not the other person’s mistake.

Then we also need to understand that the person who hurts us has created their own negative karma and will suffer because of it. Rinpoche wants us to reflect on how we caused that suffering as well and how we need to think about that to develop compassion. When we understand how our anger creates more suffering, we won’t want to be angry anymore. Instead, we will only want to help and be beneficial. So we aren’t just practicing patience, we are also developing our compassion.

We need the people who bother us and disturb so we can develop our practice of patience. We wouldn’t be able to become enlightened without them because we wouldn’t have the opportunity to develop our practice of patience.

The above video is extracted from a teaching given on May 8, 2018 at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia.

Find out more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche at http://www.fpmt.org.

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