Patience: Transforming Suffering Into Virtue

In this talk and meditation, we explore the value of patience. Patience is a virtue that, when cultivated, allows us to use suffering, difficulty, and challenge to grow and to know ourselves on deeper and deeper levels. Ultimately, it allows us to move closer to experiencing reality as it is. Patience can be considered one of the foundational virtues, as it is the basis of cultivating all other virtues, through allowing us to be fully present and nonreactive to all that we experience.

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Dear Thomas, I’ve been meaning to write you and this morning your practice around patience came to me. It was exactly what I needed. You would have laughed your authentic Thomas laughter this morning as I was practicing stillness while my son started to scream at me “food” and then “papa” so loudly. I channeled your exemple in the army neeeding to stay still. He eventually stopped. And afterwards it gave me the opportunity to explain my practice and relate it to him doing sets at the gym without interruption. Patience with my son is the biggest practice I have ever been through in life. So many times I have chosen to be reactive while I should have been still, breathing, giving space to the regulation process he needed. I am still experiencing impatience from time to time and this as you say allows me to notice when I am being patient. Thank you for sharing with us your research around virtues. It is very helpful! 🙏

Thomas
At the end of this class, I just found myself thinking, yeah! so good, so good. I find myself so grounded after one of your talks and meditations.. thank you.
Blessings to you..

Thank you for such a profound talk on the virtue of patience; came at a time I needed it the most. Will listen again. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

What a timely and pivotal practice for me. This is the muscle I will choose to strengthen. And no doubt will be given the gift to practice often. Thank you 🙏🏼 for this wonderful class. The quote by Victor Frankel is incredibly powerful and relevant.
And the Choice. I choose patience- to remain calm amidst the suffering and be aware of the less virtuous path that offers attention instead. Great learning opportunity! So grateful for this!!

Wow, this was excellent! I love all of your teachings, but I especially love this one on the virtue of patience. Thank you so much! 🙏🌼