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To practice the paramita of patience, we need someone who makes us angry or doesn’t give us what we want. Practicing the paramita of patience enables us to achieve enlightenment. Therefore, the person who makes us angry gives us enlightenment and then we are able to bring numberless sentient beings to enlightenment as well. In this way, we can see the kindness of the person who makes us angry is like a limitless sky. There’s no way to retaliate back, you remain totally positive. We can think similarly when experiencing other heavy negative karmas, such as cancer. By experiencing the cancer, we are finishing the negative karma and won’t have to go to the lower realms and suffer for eons. It becomes purification. Further, we can experience the cancer on behalf of all sentient beings and use it to achieve enlightenment. This makes our cancer most unbelievably positive and beneficial for every sentient being. The teaching for this episode was recorded on May 10, 2018, at Great Stupa Of Universal Compassion, Australia.
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