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 Patience is not something I learned at an early age. It is essentially the ability to postpone gratification, to allow events to fulfill themselves, even things I am actively working on. The best I was capable of was a kind of predatory waiting, something that might have vaguely resembled patience but was actually more like a cat twitching anxiously. Now, patience has become the very essence of meditation. It is about, very literally, infinite patience, waiting for my mud to settle. I tend to want irritants banished immediately. They are here as teachers, these fleas from hell. The first thing is to relax, take a deep breath and let it out. The second thing is to resolve that it is as it is, decide to endure. Then there are some other things, but I forget what they are. I don't try to remember. Eman8tions Copyright (c) 2000 by John MacEnulty Web site: http://www.geocities.com/eman8tions (Subscription is free. Write to Eman8tions@aol.com) 4/19/2000, St. Louis, MO |
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