Quotes About Patience

Speak less, listen deeply.

Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.

Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.

Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Building character is like making bread—you have to mix it little by little, step by step, and moderate temperature is needed. You know yourself quite well, and you know how much temperature you need. You know exactly what you need. But if you get too excited, you will forget how much temperature is good for you, and you will lose your own way. This is very dangerous.

It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it.

So even though you have some difficulty in your practice, even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those waves themselves will help you.

Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.

You must force yourself to be patient, but in constancy there is no particular effort involved--there is only the unchanging ability to accept things as they are. For people who have no idea of emptiness, this ability may appear to be patience, but patience can actually be non-acceptance.

Our way to practice is one step at a time, on breath at a time.

Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything.

After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little.

It will take quite a long time before you find your calm, serene mind in your practice.

So even though you have some difficulty in your practice, even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those waves themselves will help you. So you should not be bothered by your mind. You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

We can say either that we make progress little by little, or that we do not even expect to make progress. Just to be sincere and make our full effort in each moment is enough.

When you feel disagreeable it is better for you to sit. There is no other way to accept your problem and work on it.

So even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

Those who can sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen, the actual feeling of Zen, the marrow of Zen.

Alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards

Life is like driving on the road.... Most of those who are right , Loose patience and change lanes(paths) and are generally the ones to reach the destination quickly. However if they are not careful they may end up in disarray.

Patience is never served on the platter...

Patience is when you don't eat your egg only to let it turn into a chicken and pay higher dividends

Temper is like Blood...... you only see it when you lose it!!!