The Perfection of Patience - He cannot endure
We read in the “Gradual Sayings”, Book of the Fives, Ch IX, §5, “He cannot endure” that the Buddha said:
“Monks, possessed of five qualities,
among his fellows in the godly life (brahma cariya),
an elder becomes neither dear nor pleasant nor respected nor praised.
He cannot endure forms, sounds, smells, tastes and touches.
Monks, possessed of these five qualities,
an elder becomes neither dear nor pleasant nor respected nor praised.
By the opposte qualities, a person who can endure forms (visible objects),
sounds, smells, tastes amd touches,
will become, among his fellows in the godly life, dear, pleasant, respected and praised.”
The Buddha did not teach Dhamma only to monks, but also to all his followers
who developed panna. He taught Dhamma so that one can see that the truth is
the truth: someone who is dear, pleasant, respected and who should be praised is
a person who can endure visible objects, sounds, smells, tastes and touches.
- Endurance with kusala
- Adhivasana khanti
- The unimpeded weapon of the good I
- The unimpeded weapon of the good II
- Reflection on patience
- Conduct of Buffalo King
- Dhamma Jataka
- Patience is the highest ascetism
- Analysis of the Elements I
- Analysis of the Elements II
- Analysis of the Elements III
- Analysis of the Elements IV
- Analysis of the Elements V
- Analysis of the Elements VI
- Analysis of the Elements VII
- Analysis of the Elements VIII
- Analysis of the Elements IX
- Analysis of the Elements X
- Analysis of the Elements XI
- When perfections is completed
- A wise man & a dull witted man
- He cannot endure
- The danger of impatience
- Right & wrong kind of patience
- The Ovada-patimokkha I
- The Ovada-patimokkha II
- The Ovada-patimokkha III
- It takes an endlessly long time
- Kassapamandiya Jataka I
- Kassapamandiya Jataka II
- Kassapamandiya Jataka III