One week into my month of practicing patience, here’s what’s come up for me: I’m learning to be patient with my sadness. It’s not what I expected to emerge. (I thought the most obvious thing would be my own impatience!) But after a week of midterm…
Kshanti, or patience, is described in three unique ways. Today I want to talk about patience as gentle forbearance. Gentle forbearance is probably what we most readily think about when we think about patience. It’s that quality of being non-reactive, of breathing deep instead of raging…
For the month of November, I’ll be practicing the paramita kshanti, which means patience. It is also translated as forbearance. Kshanti is the quality of being steadfast, regardless of what’s happening around you. It’s steadiness and endurance and has the sense of a kind of peaceful…
It can feel so overwhelming to experience a wave of big emotions. And sometimes, we respond by shutting down. In other words, we hold a protest. Sometimes we protest by demanding that they go away, or at least go underground. Other times we choose to avoid them,…
