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EXTRACT Understanding the Results of Anger, You Want to Practice Patience SCRIPTED 10-May-2018

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Channel: FPMT · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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In the following short video recorded during the the 2018 retreat at Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche responds to a question about how to practice patience:
In order to practice patience, we first must have a strong understanding of how harmful anger is, Rinpoche explains. If we don’t understand the danger of anger, then we won’t be persuaded to practice patience.
We need to think about the negative karma that is created by anger. However when we are angry, we don’t care about karma and are capable of doing terrible actions. That is why we need to understand that this nonvirtue results in future suffering and causes so many problems. 'What you have to remember is this, how the anger is so harmful. First you have to recognize that,' Rinpoche says.
Then, quoting the great bodhisattva Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara, Rinpoche says, '‘For a thousand eons you made offerings to the Gone to Bliss Ones and made charity to other sentient beings, for a thousand eons, so merits collected by making offerings to Buddha and charity to other sentient beings, by rising anger one second it destroys all the merits.’ … You understand? It completely gets destroyed. You have to understand how anger is so dangerous.'
Not only does anger create future suffering, it destroys our merit. So we need to develop our understanding of the results of anger to motivate us to practice patience, which will change how we see the object of our anger.
This video was extracted from a teaching that was recorded in Bendigo, Australia on May 10, 2018.
Find out more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche at http://www.fpmt.org

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