Buddhist Pema Chodron on How Troublemakers Show Us Where We're Stuck
(The January 24 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.shambhala.com/authors/a-f-1/pema-chodron.html
Those who give us a hard time, who are difficult to be around or who constantly blow our cover, are the very ones who show us where we we’re stuck. The great meditation master Atisha always traveled with his belligerent Bengali tea-boy because it kept him honest. Without his ill-tempered servant to test him, he might have been able to deceive himself about his degree of equanimity. Troublemakers up the ante: if we can practice patience with them, we can practice it with anyone.
(The January 24 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.shambhala.com/authors/a-f-1/pema-chodron.html
Those who give us a hard time, who are difficult to be around or who constantly blow our cover, are the very ones who show us where we we’re stuck. The great meditation master Atisha always traveled with his belligerent Bengali tea-boy because it kept him honest. Without his ill-tempered servant to test him, he might have been able to deceive himself about his degree of equanimity. Troublemakers up the ante: if we can practice patience with them, we can practice it with anyone.
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