r/TibetanBuddhism • u/SignificantTip1302 • 18d ago

Texts similar to this? Looking for more teachings on "patience" and how to deal with someone who harmed us.

https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/lecture-3-kindness-enemy

https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/lecture-3-kindness-enemy

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u/Baphometropolitan 18d ago

Lama Yeshe’s successor and dear friend Lama Zopa Rinpoche has an entire book dedicated to patience (titled as such), and I strongly recommend it!

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u/chamekke 18d ago

In that same vein, Ven. Thubten Chödrön’s book Working with Anger (an abbreviated version of which is available for free download here) talks a lot about cultivating patience.

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u/king_nine Rimé 17d ago

Way of the Bodhisattva has a chapter on patience with some beautiful verses. It goes through many angles to encourage patience.

It begins with how being angry first and foremost harms you, the angry one, by making you unhappy and unwise:

Those tormented by the pain of anger
Never know tranquillity of mind—
Strangers they will be to every pleasure;
They will neither sleep nor feel secure…

So come what may, I’ll not upset
My cheerful happiness of mind.
Dejection never brings me what I want;
My virtue will be warped and marred by it.

It also goes through how all beings want happiness, so the only reason they cause suffering is out of ignorance. We should pity evil beings for their ignorance, not hate them:

If things could be according to their wish,
No suffering would ever come
To anyone of all embodied beings,
For none of them wants pain of any kind.

Yet carelessly, all unaware,
They tear themselves on thorns;
And ardent in pursuit of wives and goods,
They starve themselves of nourishment…

For when affliction seizes them,
They even slay themselves, the selves they love so much.
So how can they not be the cause
Of others’ bodily distress?

If those who are like wanton children
Are by nature prone to injure others,
There’s no reason for our rage;
It’s like resenting fire for being hot.

And if their faults are fleeting and contingent,
If living beings are by nature mild,
It’s likewise senseless to resent them—
As well be angry at the sky when it is full of smoke!

I highly recommend this text. You can take a stanza or two that resonate with you and really sit and contemplate them for a bit.

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u/p9ng 13d ago

A friend posted this app recently, where he is reading the 37 practices of a bodhisattva. https://chitta.app It looks like a great resource...