Bodhisattva's Way of Life: 28-June-2006 (Day 5 of 7) - Dalai Lama Audio Teachings on Tibetan Buddhism Podcast

Summary: Compassion, Bodhichitta and the wisdom realizing dependent arising and emptiness: In a brief introduction to the day’s teachings His Holiness the Dalai Lama highlights these three indispensable elements of the path to enlightenment, rarely presented so vividly and persuasively as in the “Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life”. His Holiness concludes Chapter 5, the chapter on patience. Anger perpetuates the cycle of violence and suffering. The practice of patience does not consist in weakly giving in to oppression but in that which squarely opposes the chief oppressor, our own anger. In Chapter 6, on enthusiastic perseverance, the obstacle is laziness, the laziness of idleness, the laziness of being distracted by the mean and trivial and lastly the laziness of putting oneself down.