{"id":5515,"date":"2010-03-29T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:33:36","slug":"practicing-courage-i-e-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/03\/29\/practicing-courage-i-e-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Courage (i.e., Patience)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you practice the kind of patience that leads to the de-escalation of aggression and the cessation of suffering, you will be cultivating enormous courage. You will really get to know anger and how it breeds violent words and actions. You will see the whole thing without acting it out. When you practice patience, you\u2019re not repressing anger, you\u2019re just sitting there with it\u2014going cold turkey with the aggression. As a result, you really get to know the energy of anger and you also get to know where it leads, even without going there. You\u2019ve expressed your anger so many times, you know where it will lead. The desire to say something mean, to gossip or slander, to complain\u2014to just somehow get rid of that aggression\u2014is like a tidal wave. But you realize that such actions don\u2019t get rid of the aggression; they escalate it. So instead you\u2019re patient, patient with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pema Chodron<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you practice the kind of patience that leads to the de-escalation of aggression and the cessation of suffering, you will be cultivating enormous courage. You will really get to know anger and how it breeds violent words and actions. You will see the whole thing without acting it out. When you practice patience, you\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,25,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-education","category-meditation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11767,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions\/11767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}