Dharma Cultivation - To practice forbearance

修持忍辱

对于那些看不顺眼，以及让你生气瞋恨心的对境，你就要修持忍辱，挡住生起瞋恨的道路，调伏自己的心续，这才是修持忍辱。如果你懂得如何修持的话，反而会觉得这些不顺的违缘及障碍，比起顺缘更对自己的修行有利益。

因此，释迦牟尼佛曾宣说，那些被魔众障碍的人，也是因为佛陀的加持。


第十七世大宝法王噶玛巴乌金钦列多杰


To practice forbearance

As for those matters that you do not see eye to eye with, as well as those situations that might ignite the fury in you, it is even more required of you to practice forbearance, to halt that path which leads one to surface the anger/aversion/hatred, and to keep a rein on your train of thoughts (heart/mind), and this is the truly the practice of forbearance.

If you know how to practice forbearance well, you will find that those unfavourable conditions/affinity and obstacles that appear, instead become more beneficial to your cultivation practice than favourable conditions/affinity.

Hence, Shakyamuni Buddha says that those who are obstructed in their course of cultivation by unfavourable conditions (be it human or otherwise, situations etc), are also a part of blessing from the Buddha.

 - His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje