The Buddha's 'Most Important Practice': Patience

About this episode

This episode discusses the Buddha's teaching on patience as the most important practice for achieving peace and self-control.

The Buddha was once asked "what is the most important thing for us to practice?" He answered: patience (or khanti, in Pali) and assured us that this skill or quality is something we can learn to apply to absolutely everything we struggle with in our lives - every person, situation, and even ourselves - in order to become much more peaceful, self-controlled, compassionate, and undisturbed by life itself. This talk explores his teachings about how we can do this. It includes a meditation at the end.

Topics covered

• patience
• Buddhism
• self-control
• compassion
• meditation

Keywords

• khanti
• Buddha
• spirituality
• health
• fitness

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