In this 2022 letter to a center director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the perfect epitome of patience, offers an unmissable teaching on why patience is critically important, and how to protect and cultivate it through applying conscientious effort.

Explaining the value of patience, Rinpoche says it protects our hard-won merits, which are necessary for our liberation from samsara but which are easily destroyed through our acts of anger and heresy.  Rinpoche then advises us on how best to dedicate our merits so as to protect them.

Rinpoche’s letter also offers guidance on six ways to train the mind in patience: by seeing the ‘enemy’ as the guru and as positive support, by realizing that the ‘enemy’ has no freedom to act differently, by developing compassion, and by remembering karma and the emptiness of phenomena.

24 pages, 2023 edition