Patience Paramita

Inspiration on Patience, Paramita for the month of March:

In Sanskrit it is: kshanti
In Tibetan it is: bzod pa (Pro. "zopa")

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Patience

Jetsun Milarepa sings in Song of the Ten Perfections:

Be perfectly unafraid of genuine reality,There is no other patience than that.

Patience or forebearance is the antidote or remedy to anger and agression.

Shantideva sings:

6.1

Good works gathered in a thousand ages,
Such as deeds of generosity,
Or offerings to the blissful ones -
A single flash of anger shatters them.

6.2

No evil is similar to anger,
No austerity to be compared with patience.
Steep yourself, therefore in patience -
In all ways, urgently, with zeal.

6.3

Those tormented by the pain of anger
Will never know tranquility of mind -
Strangers they will be to every pleasure;
Sleep departs them, they can never rest.

Padampa Sangye sings:

To hate enemies is a delusion caused by karma.
Transform your vicious thoughts of hatred, people of Tingri!

Atisha's slogans for Patience paramita are:

When the world is filled with evil,
Transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi (awakening).

Drive all blames into one.

Be grateful to everyone.

Seeing confusion as the four kayas (bodies) Is unsurpassable shunyata (emptiness) protection.

Four practices (accumulation of merit, laying down evil deeds, offering to the wrathful spirits, offering to the dharma protectors), are the best of methods.

Whatever you meet unexpectedly, join with meditation.

Contradictions to the Paramita of Patience:

Not practicing the four dharmas of a practitioner (not returning curses for curses, anger for anger, blow for blow, or insult for insult).

Not working peacefully with, but rejecting, people who are angry at you.

Refusing to accept another's apology.

Giving in to anger.