Patience
All of us have experienced impatience. We get impatient when we are stuck in traffic, we get impatient when someone doesn’t understand us and we have to repeat ourselves, we get impatient when summer doesn’t arrive when it’s supposed to… When we are impatient, we often get angry, have a meltdown, snap at other people, or get tense and anxious. Impatience is actually a form of suffering. Impatience clouds our vision so we don’t see good solutions, and we often make impulsive decisions that turn out badly. Most people that I have known have said that they wished they could be more patient. In our society, lack of patience seems to be almost epidemic. So, what can we do it about it? Can we teach or train ourselves to be more patient? The Buddha said that he only taught two things: the nature of suffering, and freedom from suffering. When we understand the true nature of our suffering—when we see how it comes i...
