3:01 Patience is interconnected with Forgiveness

I waded through my full share of pain, and feelings of jealousy and betrayal. But they were all essentially self-inflicted, from a Zen point of view. I worked hard on my Zen, to weather all of it. And the thing that I notice looking back is how much forgiveness and patience were hand-in-hand with my process when things made progress.

Inside myself: when I grasped and held onto a sense of forgiveness, patience would come; and when I just stopped reacting to my feelings to force myself to be patient, forgiveness would flower. But also outside myself: I felt forgiven when was there was patience for my process.