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Peaceful Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Patience
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- A Buddhist 'good life' Theory: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Dialogue between Thomas Merton on Agape and Shantideva on Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange
- A Fearless Heart
- A Few Good Men
- A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
- A Great Commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Vol. 1
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (1985)
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (1999)
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life of Shantideva (2002)
- A Mahāyāna Liturgy
- A Nirvana that Is Burning in Hell: Pain and Flourishing in Mahayana Buddhist Moral Thought
- A Note on Mahāyāna Buddhism and the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Precursory Phrase of Tantric Definition of Bodhicitta in the Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- A Role for Primordial Wisdom in the Buddhist Free Will Controversy
- A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta
- Altruism and Reality (1998)
- Altruism in the Charnel Ground: Śāntideva and Parfit on Anātman, Reductionism and Benevolence
- An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics
- Anger: The Seven Deadly Sins
- Appendix B: Excerpt from A Lamp Completely Illuminating the Profound Reality of Interdependence
- Becoming Bodhisattvas
- Bhadracaryāvidhi in the Śikṣāsamuccaya Chapt. 16
- Bile & Bodhisattvas: Śāntideva on Justified Anger
- Blasphemie und Sakrileg im Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Verses Bodhicaryāvatāra 6.64
- Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra als Lehrschrift und Vorhaben: Zum Thema Ritual, Religion, Philosophie und Mystik im Buddhismus
- Bodhicaryāvatāra and Bodhicaryāvatāra-Pañjikā (Malalasekera)
- Bodhicaryāvatāra para Parama Pāvana Dalāi Lāmā Jī ka viśesha pravacana
- Bodhicaryāvatāra with Commentary (O'Sullivan)
- Bodhicaryāvatāra: Governing the Bodhisattvas Way of Life
- Bodhicitta (Ringu Tulku)
- Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva
- Bodhicitta and Charity: A Comparison
- Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment
- Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
- Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Exposition de la pratique des bodhisattvas
- Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
- Buddhist Ethics (2003)
- Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Conventional Truth: Path and Transformation
- Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
- Built on Emptiness: Śūnyatā as a Basis for Mahāyāna Ethics, With References to Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Can We Kill Illusory People? Some Philosophical Reflections on Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra 9:11-13ab
- Comparative Confession: A Comparative Study of Confession in the Writings of Tertullian, Cassian, and Śāntideva
- Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism
- Compassion in Our Day: Learning from Shantideva
- Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva
- Conclusion: The Socratic Paradigm
- Consequences of Compassion
- Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics-Review by Meyers
- Consequentialism, Agent-Neutrality, and Mahāyāna Ethics
- Consequentialism, Particularism, and the Emptiness of Persons: A Response to Vishnu Sridharan
- Cooking Living Beings: The Transformative Effects of Encounters with Bodhisattva Bodies
- Courageous Compassion
- Cultivating Bodhicitta: Wisdom and Compassion in Śāntideva's Introduction to the Awakened Life
- Das 7. Kapitel über die Tatkraft in Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Das Ritual der Entschlussfassung im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Kap. II und III)
- Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
- Did Śāntideva Destroy the Bodhisattva Path?
- Die Aufnahme des Erleuchtungsgeistes: Eine Übersetzung von Prajñākaramatis Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā 3.1-19
- Die zwei Wahrheiten
- Discourses on Bodhicharyāvatāra
- Does "Buddhist Ethics" Exist?
- Does Anātman Rationally Entail Altruism? On Bodhicaryāvatāra 8:101-103
- Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- Emptiness and Moral Perfection
- Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior
- Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds
- Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva: A New Translation and Contemporary Guide
- Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
- Ethics (Garfield)
- Ethics and the Subversion of Conceptual Reification in Lévinas and Śāntideva
- Ethics in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
- Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
- Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality
- Exchanging Self and Other
- Experience and Morality: Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology
- Extreme Giving: The Vessantara Jātaka and Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
- Features of Śraddhā in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Following in the Buddha's Footsteps
- For the Benefit of All Beings
- Freedom from Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal
- From Madhyamaka to Consequentialism: A Road Map
- From Sickness to Empathy: How Śāntideva and Jesus's Healing of the Man Blind from Birth Might Help Us Understand the Ongoing Pandemic
- Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Bodhicaryavatara): A Commentary by Geshe Tenzin Zopa
- Guide to the Good Life
- Healing Anger
- Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective-Review by Naga
- How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
- Hume as a Western Mādhyamika: The Case from Ethics
- In Praise of Great Compassion
- Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
- Internal and External Opposition to the Bodhisattva's Gift of His Body
- La légende de Śāntideva
- Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
- Love in Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Madhyamaka Ethics
- Mapping the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
- Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue and Perfection
- Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Śāntideva's Ethics
- Moderation or the Middle Way: Two Approaches to Anger
- Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness
- Moral Pluralism, Skillful Means, and Environmental Ethics
- Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Lecture Transcript)
- Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Official Publication)
- No Time to Lose
- On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97-8
- On the Classification of Śāntideva's Ethics in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- One Aspect of the Acceptance of the Bodhisattva-śīla in Tibet
- Patience and Perspective
- Patience: A Guide to Shantideva's Sixth Chapter (Zopa 2020)
- Peaceful Heart
- Perfecting Patience
- Perfecting Wisdom
- Plant Seed, Pull Weed
- Practicing Wisdom
- Prajñākaramati on Śāntideva's Case Against Anger: A Translation of Bodhicaryāvatāra-pañjikā VI.1-69
- Puṇya and Pāp in Public Health: Everyday Religion, Material Culture, and Avenues of Buddhist Activism in Urban Kathmandu
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
- Reason and Knowledge on the Path: A Protreptic Reading of the Guide
- René Girard, Śāntideva, and the Emptiness of Desire
- Reply to Paul Williams
- Resentment and Reality: Buddhism on Moral Responsibility
- Response to Mark Siderits' Review
- Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology
- Self-Sceptical Ethics and Selfless Morality: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Overview
- Selfhood and the Metaphysics of Altruism
- Selfless Ethics: The Equality of Non-Existence
- Selflessness and Normativity: Śāntideva and Emptiness Ethics
- Shantideva and Friends
- Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 4
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 5
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 6
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 7
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 8
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 1
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 2
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 3
- Spinoza through the Prism of Later 'East-West' Exchanges: Analogues of Buddhist Themes in the Ethics and the Works of Early Spinozists
- Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions
- Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
- Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra (2000)
- Sur l'océan du Mahayana
- Sāntideva, The Bodhicaryāvatāra, Chapter 8 (verses 89-140)
- The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain: How Śāntideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path
- The Awakening Mind (Tsering 2008)
- The Beautiful Way of Life
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
- The Bodhisattva Guide
- The Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- The Buddhist Roots of Secular Compassion Training: A Comparative Study of Compassion Cultivation in Indian and Tibetan Mahāyāna Sources with the Contemporary Secular Program of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
- The Center of the Sunlit Sky
- The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
- The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Edelglass
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Tatz
- The Connection between Ontology and Ethics in Madhyamaka Thought
- The Contrasts between the Bodhisattvayāna and the Śrāvakayāna in the Śikṣāsamuccaya's Theory of Bodhicitta
- The Endlessly Fascinating Cry
- The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
- The Ethics of Mahāyāna Buddhism in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva
- The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by Abramson
- The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by Javanaud
- The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by O'Leary
- The Metaphysical Basis of Śāntideva's Ethics
- The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech
- The Profound Reality of Interdependence
- The Profound Reality of Interdependence-Review by Bouthillette
- The Reality of Altruism: Reconstructing Śāntideva, A Review of Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicāryāvatāra, by Paul Williams
- The Reflexive Nature of Awareness (1998)
- The Relationship between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- The Resolve to Become a Buddha
- The Self and the Other in Bodhicaryāvatāra: Part 1
- The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion
- The Selfless Removal of Pain: A Critical Glance at Śāntideva's Argument in Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 101–3
- The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: The History, Diffusion, and Influence of a Mahāyāna Buddhist Text
- The Way of Awakening
- The Way of the Bodhisattva (1997)
- The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
- The Wisdom Chapter
- The Śāntideva Passage: Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII.90–103
- Theory and Comparison in the Discussion of Buddhist Ethics
- Traces of Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism in Bodhisattva Ethics
- Transcendent Wisdom (1988)
- Transcendent Wisdom (2009)
- Uncommon Happiness
- Uses of the Illusion of Agency: Why Some Buddhists Should Believe in Free Will
- Virtuous Bodies
- Waking into Compassion: The Three Ālambana of Karuṇā
- What Is It Like to Be a Bodhisattva? Moral Phenomenology in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- What Would a Sage Do?
- Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place? Weakness of Will in Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Why War? Why Not Peace? Santideva's Answer to Einstein's Famous Question to Freud
- Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries
- Śāntideva (Karen Lang)
- Śāntideva (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Śāntideva and Kant: An East-West Comparative Study in Ethics
- Śāntideva and an Ethic of Radical Compassion
- Śāntideva on Developing the Thought of Awakening
- Śāntideva's Criticism of Vijñānavāda and Bodhicitta
- Śāntideva's Ethics of Impartial Compassion
- Śāntideva's Impartialist Ethics
- Śāntideva, Virtue, and Consequentialism
- Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
- Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles-Review by Cabezón
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Description
Patience is one of the most important qualities we can develop, as it represents our mind's ability to work positively with anything that bothers us, including anger, loss, jealousy, and helplessness. We are consistently confronted with situations or outcomes we weren’t expecting or didn’t want, and our default response is to reject what happened with feelings of mild irritation, inward complaining, self-aggression, or seething resentment. Patience is an antidote to all these forms of rejection. Those who have mastered patience have learned to welcome all challenging situations, people, and emotions as opportunities to open their hearts rather than close them.
Based on the teachings of the sixth chapter of Shantideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva, Peaceful Heart explores how Buddhist teachings on patience can help you work with whatever disturbances arise in your life and in your mind. Dzigar Kongtrul provides practices and examples throughout the book to challenge readers on the path to developing a more patient heart. (Source Accessed Apr 5, 2021)
Citation
Dzigar Kongtrul, 2nd. Peaceful Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Patience. Edited by Joseph Waxman. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2020.
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Table of contents
- Foreword by Pema Chödrönvii
- Acknowledgmentsix
- Introduction: Protecting Our Tender Heart1
- ONE
- Why We Need to Work with Our Anger9
- TWO
- The Seventy-Two Ways We Get Disturbed25
- THREE
- An Unconventional Approach to Our Suffering35
- FOUR
- Is There an Agent? Deeply Analyzing What Brings Us Pain53
- FIVE
- Widening Our Perspective on Adverse Circumstances75
- SIX
- Practicing Patience When We Are Treated with Contempt97
- SEVEN
- How Should We React When Our Loved Ones Are Mistreated?111
- EIGHT
- Working with Jealousy131
- NINE
- Not Taking Pleasure in Others' Pain143
- TEN
- Practicing Patience When We Don't Get What We Want147
- ELEVEN
- We Can't Attain Enlightenment without Sentient Beings171
- TWELVE
- Our Kindness Delights the Buddhas181
- THIRTEEN
- The Karmic Consequences of How We Treat Others191
- Appendix A: Meditation on Patience201
- Appendix B: The Seventy-Two Ways We Get Disturbed211
Interconnections
1 Teaching based on
An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.
1 Interviews
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, renowned Buddhist teacher, shares wisdom for the cultivation of patience and an open heart. Event hosted by @BanyenBooksSoundVancouver .
In the Buddhist tradition, "patience" is our mind’s ability to work positively with anything that bothers us. In his new book c: The Buddhist Practice of Patience, Dzigar Kongtrul expands Shantideva's ancient teachings that contain powerful methods for preventing our minds from becoming consumed and overwhelmed.
