Gate Eighty-nine
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
The forbearance pāramitā is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we abandon all anger, arrogance, flattery, and foolery, and we teach and guide living beings who have such vices.
Forbearance (Ksanti) pāramitā : the wisdom of tolerance.
By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Koan:
"Ksanti—patience or forbearance—is one of the paramitas or perfections that Buddhists are taught to cultivate. Ksanti Paramita, the perfection of patience, is the third of the Mahayana paramitas.
Ksanti means "unaffected by" or "able to withstand." It could be translated as tolerance, endurance, and composure as well as patience or forbearance. Some of the Mahayana sutras describe three dimensions to ksanti. These are the ability to endure personal hardship; patience with others; and acceptance of truth. "
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
The forbearance pāramitā is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we abandon all anger, arrogance, flattery, and foolery, and we teach and guide living beings who have such vices.
Forbearance (Ksanti) pāramitā : the wisdom of tolerance.
By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Koan:
"Ksanti—patience or forbearance—is one of the paramitas or perfections that Buddhists are taught to cultivate. Ksanti Paramita, the perfection of patience, is the third of the Mahayana paramitas.
Ksanti means "unaffected by" or "able to withstand." It could be translated as tolerance, endurance, and composure as well as patience or forbearance. Some of the Mahayana sutras describe three dimensions to ksanti. These are the ability to endure personal hardship; patience with others; and acceptance of truth. "
- Barabara O'Brien's Leaning Religion; link here
Most note worthy replies :
Learn the meaning of tolerance
. It does not mean sitting quietly
Nor is it heaping sugar in bitter tea.
Unswayed by rough seas
Unswayed by rough seas
Dharma's ship
Can safely carry all
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
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