Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
Part Two - The Perfections Turned Around, and Questions on Anger
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo · 80 minutes · recorded January 1, 2016
The verses continue through the perfections, each definition undercutting the usual way of looking at it. The supreme generosity is non-attachment, the supreme ethical conduct is to pacify one's mind, the supreme patience is to take the lowest place, and the supreme effort is letting go of activity. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo tells of Atisha keeping a rude attendant as his teacher of patience. Questions follow on teachers charging for Dharma and on whether anger ever serves a good cause.
Anger and aversion Attachment and craving Ethics and precepts Generosity and dana Patience, forbearance and acceptance