Patience and its power to undo
Highlights from last nights class..
To meditate and contemplate upon waking, throughout the day, and before sleep:
"Our real problem is not the physical sickness, difficult relationship or financial hardship that we might currently be experiencing, but our being trapped in samsara. This recognition is the basis for developing renunciation, the spontaneous wish to attain complete freedom from every trace of dissatisfaction, which in turn is the foundation of all the higher spiritual realizations leading to the boundless happiness of liberation and enlightenment. But this recognition can only dawn within the clear and open mind of patient acceptance. For as long as we are in conflict with life's difficulties, thinking that things should be different from the way they are and blaming circumstances or other people for our unhappiness, we will never have the clarity of spaciousness of mind to see what it is that is really binding us. Patience allows us to see clearly the habit patterns that keep us locked in samsara, and thereby enables us to begin to undo them. Patience is therefore the foundation of the everlasting freedom and bliss of liberation." -Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Samsara: impure reality, experience by impure mind. It is an experience, we are not in samsara we experience samsara due to our impure mind projecting an impure reality.
Delusions: A mental factor that arises from inappropriate attention and functions to make the mind unpeaceful and uncontrolled. There are three main delusions: ignorance, desirous attachment and anger. From these the all other delusions arise, such as jealousy, pride and deluded doubt.
To meditate and contemplate upon waking, throughout the day, and before sleep:
Remembering that patience undoes delusions.
How wonderful.
May all practice patience to access peace and freedom.
"Our real problem is not the physical sickness, difficult relationship or financial hardship that we might currently be experiencing, but our being trapped in samsara. This recognition is the basis for developing renunciation, the spontaneous wish to attain complete freedom from every trace of dissatisfaction, which in turn is the foundation of all the higher spiritual realizations leading to the boundless happiness of liberation and enlightenment. But this recognition can only dawn within the clear and open mind of patient acceptance. For as long as we are in conflict with life's difficulties, thinking that things should be different from the way they are and blaming circumstances or other people for our unhappiness, we will never have the clarity of spaciousness of mind to see what it is that is really binding us. Patience allows us to see clearly the habit patterns that keep us locked in samsara, and thereby enables us to begin to undo them. Patience is therefore the foundation of the everlasting freedom and bliss of liberation." -Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Samsara: impure reality, experience by impure mind. It is an experience, we are not in samsara we experience samsara due to our impure mind projecting an impure reality.
Delusions: A mental factor that arises from inappropriate attention and functions to make the mind unpeaceful and uncontrolled. There are three main delusions: ignorance, desirous attachment and anger. From these the all other delusions arise, such as jealousy, pride and deluded doubt.
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