Definition Essay: What Is Patience?

The speaker has learned about patience from the outcomes of his father and other hunters. When the speaker goes hunting with his father, his father adopts a strategy to “[sit] silently, motionless and endlessly patient, waiting for deer to come down the paths” (2). Sometimes they sit still for hours but the method has proven effective because other impatient hunters make noises that prompt deers to approach the speaker. During the

I am very good at being impatient. However, it is easier for me to be patient when I am fishing because I know if I am patient, there is a chance at some point, I will get what I want, which is a fish. For a ring of a bell, a sway of a pole or a splash in the water.

“The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.” (Arthur Keith)

Firstly, humans wait for everything, such as waiting in line to pay at a grocery store or waiting for food at a restaurant; waiting is a common part of life. The majority of the time it can be inconvenient but sometimes it can be life-threatening. Waiting has come to be a defining characteristic of the Canadian

Patience: Patience should be dynamic. In other words, constant. It’s not an on & off button. When we’re talking patience, we’re talking waiting & giving time for something. You must give a good attitude while waiting. Everything is difficult before it’s easy. The patience is worth it. “Patience is bitter, but it’s fruit is

This piece represents the very tenets of Buddhism at its most extreme. Those that wish to evade the suffering of the human existence should remove themselves from the materialism of it to the fullest extent possible. This is one of the

I have always been a very impatient person. When I need something done, I want it done as fast as possible, but also as well as possible. With

While I am sure you have ample supply of both patience and diligence, even the best of us can be a bit impatient at times and

In life, nothing is more terrifying than change. We often latch on to permanency without understanding the effects of our action, in search of truth that simply is not there. In this way, the Buddhist idea of anicca, the second mark of existence, is liberating. Anicca is closely related to the idea of anatta, as it expands on the idea of a non-permanent, self and beyond this non-permanent self exists a non-permanent world. Reality, through the lense of anicca, is not a collection of still-life paintings, but rather a life performance. Clinging on to the past, or even the present, can deny us life itself, as we deny the change that is intrinsic to existence. We can look not into specific memories or scenes for truth, but rather the journey

There is a time in all religious experiences that people look for spiritual growth by reflecting on the basics of life. An estimated 376 million people are considered to believe and follow Buddhist practices, the question of the four elements (sight’s), aging people, the sick, funerals processions and religion. These elements that Siddhartha Gautama saw, that led to him to seek religious enlightenment, and to give up his privileged life. These four elements come up in every religious walk at some point. Reflection on these elements can have astonishing effects in someone’s life. By looking at these elements, and by showing the effect they had on Siddhartha Gautama’s life, will show that anyone could grow in their spiritual belief by reflecting

DELAY will be defined as an activity or condition that inhibits a person from accomplishing a task following a prescribed method. Examples of DELAY are printer down, issues with the Voice system, excessive congestion, fallen cases on the floor,

In The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh provides a citation from the Buddha, which gives insight into the cure of our distress. “I teach only suffering and the transformation of suffering” (Thich Nhat

In reviewing the Asian religions, I found Buddhism and Confucianism to be interesting subjects. Specifically, I found their notions of what makes a superior or accomplished person to be engaging. The equivalent of an accomplished religious figure in Buddhism is a bhodisattva, or one who is dedicates his life to attaining complete enlightenment for all living beings. A superior person in Confucianism is one is “worthy of high station by virtue of moral achievement” (Hagen). These figures parallel each other in terms of action, relationships, and morality. In the following essay, I will compare the relating aspects of the junzi and bodhisattva.

Kenko, the Buddhist monk and author of Essays in Idleness, took great satisfaction in the idea of impermanence. A hefty amount of this work deals with Kenko talking about Buddhist values and the beauty of change. He felt that “if man was never to fade like the dews of Adishino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered forever in the world, how things would

About 2,500 years ago, Prince Siddhartha Gautama renounced his empire in search of happiness or panacea for sorrow (dukkha) Gautama, after an extensive research throughout his empire and meditating on the collected data under a banyan tree,discovered that aspiration or want (kama) was at the root of sorrow (dukkha) laid down four noble truths to eliminate sorrow, and became the Buddha, the enlightened. Truths “Sanskriti, Mana. "The Four Noble." (1998).”