[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Patience with Clarity

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

November 16, 2006

PATIENCE WITH CLARITY

Patience, ksanti in Sanskrit, is usually taken to mean forbearance and the 
calm endurance of pain and hardship. But in fact, it means rather more than 
that. It is forbearing in the sense of seeing the situation and seeing that 
it is right to forbear and to develop patience. So ksanti has an aspect of 
intelligence, in contrast, one might say, to an animal loaded with baggage 
which must go on and on walking along the track until it just drops dead. 
That kind of patience is patience without wisdom, without clarity. Here we 
are referring to patience with clarity, and energy with the eye of 
understanding.

 From "Patience," in MEDITATION IN ACTION, the Shambhala Pocket Classic 
Edition, page 85.

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