Beginning from this week, we'll be meeting on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Chinese translation will be provided. The event starts at 10 am. As we sit here during this retreat, we have to pay attention to things that are not at all interesting. They may even be unpleasant and painful.
Patience is such an important virtue.
If we have no patience, there is absolutely no possibility of getting enlightened. Be extremely patient. . . . Then I began to see that wanting to get rid of pain was a miserable state of mind. You can run away from it, but after a while you begin to come to terms with physical pain. I've used practice like 'having all the time in the world to be with pain,' rather than struggling to get rid of it so that I could come back to my 'real' meditation.