Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

A very real cause of our impatience happens because we are not experiencing “how things should be.” Sometimes, an upbringing as an only child might have created additional challenges with impatience because many times, only children get their way. However, only child or not, it is a normal human attitude to expect ot hers to obey us, (preferably unquestioningly!) If they don’t, there will be an energetic response. If we were less mature or less cultivated, we would be unable to prevent ourselves from being “angry.” Isn’t that so? If we were slightly more cultivated, perhaps even a spiritual person or a meditator, we would be “irritated,” but since we are so very, very cultivated – we are only “impatient”! ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ ""Eine sehr konkrete Ursache unserer Ungeduld ist, dass wir den Eindruck haben, dass 'die Dinge nicht so sind, wie sie sein sollten'. Manchmal kann es was Ungeduld betrifft zusätzliche Herausforderun...

"A very real cause of impatience is not experiencing our own view of “how things should be”. An upbringing as an only child might have created additional challenges with impatience? Why? Because they pretty much got their own way. What do you think? Were there special challenges? In normal human development, if not modified by other early training, a point of view arises that expects others to obey. When they do not, there is an energetic arisal of, if we were less cultivated, we would say “anger”. Isn’t that so? If we were slightly more cultivated, we would call it “irritated”, but since we are so very, very cultivated – we are only “impatient”! The important point here, is that my personal view of things perhaps is not how everything should be experienced. Understanding a variety of views will help, whether you are dealing with Hospice, dealing with you own mother, family or dear friends, or whether you are dealing with a problem situation of your own doing. Just because you cre...