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heavy sufferings of rebirth in hell. And even when after that you re reborn human, there will be many
other problems as a result of anger. Anger has many, many drawbacks, but by practicing patience you
can avoid them all.
In short, practicing patience on a daily basis has infinite benefit. It brings peace, happiness and
success for yourself and others in this and many future lives. Ultimately, you attain enlightenment,
and bring all happiness to all sentient beings as you lead them to enlightenment.
How to practice patience
Where does your daily practice of patience that brings all this benefit come from? How did you
learn to be patient?
Ask yourself,  Where did I learn this patience that I practice? I learned it from those who have been
angry at me. By depending on the angry person I have been able to practice, to realize patience.
Therefore, all the peace and happiness that I enjoy in this and future lives as a result of my practice of
patience has come from the angry person. It is through the kindness of the angry person, who gave
me the opportunity to practice, that I am able to offer peace and happiness to all sentient beings as a
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result of my patience. Because of this person I am able to accomplish the perfection of patience, the
other perfections, and thereby complete the bodhisattva s path and attain full enlightenment.
Through this person s kindness I can eradicate all errors of mind and gain all realizations. It is the
angry person who has given me this opportunity. This person is actually giving me enlightenment.
Through the kindness of this person I can also offer all peace and happiness to all sentient beings.
How kind this person is! How much benefit this person has given me! This is the most precious
person in my life! Even if someone were to give me billions and trillions of dollars, I could never buy
the peace of mind that I get through the practice of patience. Therefore, the angry person who gives
me the opportunity to practice patience is of much greater value than trillions of dollars, mountains
of diamonds, acres of gold.
The angry person is even more precious than trillions of wish-fulfilling jewels. The most precious
material object we can think of in these examples is the wish-fulfilling jewel. Legend has it that by
praying to this mythical gem, you get whatever sense enjoyment you desire. Nevertheless, the angry
person with whom you practice patience is far more valuable than trillions of these wish-granting
gems. No amount of material wealth can bring you the inner peace that you can achieve by practicing
patience with an angry person. That s why such people are so precious.
The only reason the person is so kind and precious is because he is angry at you. There s no reason
other than that. This is what makes this person so unbelievably kind. Therefore, even though his
anger is so destructive for him, for you it is invaluable. It is of the utmost need in your life. Having
somebody angry at you is very, very important.
Say there were a cure for cancer or AIDS. We would regard that medicine as incredibly precious,
extremely important, especially if we were suffering from one of those diseases. But even though such
remedies could cure those fatal illnesses, it doesn t mean that they could purify your negative karma.
They couldn t stop you from being reborn in the suffering lower realms  the hell, hungry ghost or
animal realms. Practicing patience, however, does offer that kind of benefit. For example, the practice
of patience makes for a happy, peaceful death, a death free from fear and worry. Practicing patience
purifies, or counteracts, negative karma. When you practice patience, you don t create negative
karma. That means you are not creating the cause for a lower rebirth  patience protects you from
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that. In fact, the practice of patience creates only positive karma, the cause of good rebirths.
Anyway, in order to practice patience, you need an angry person. As the great bodhisattva
Shantideva pointed out in his teaching, the Bodhicharyavatara, the Buddha isn t angry with you, so
you can t practice patience with him. And a doctor s only thought is to help you, so there s no [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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