Milarepa reportedly said: “For how can one practice patience, if there is no one to be angry with? And patience is the best means for attaining enlightenment.” Is the divine perspective truly that patience is truly the best means for obtaining enlightenment?

It is a practical tool one can use to cultivate divine perspectives because so much of what is encountered in life demands patience of the experiencer in order to cope and have a way to stay above the emotional entanglements that would otherwise drag the person down into wrongdoing of some kind, if only with one’s thoughts and feelings. Whenever one is out of divine alignment through emotional discord, this is an invitation to interlopers to persuade, manipulate, and further drag the person into a vortex of dishevelment and a downgraded status that can become hard to recover from, and send the person on a downward path that can indeed persist on a lifelong basis if there is no opportunity to recover. Adopting patience as a goal is thereby the first order of business to maintain one’s equilibrium, in a vibrational sense, to be on the lofty divine path of virtue and not moving away from the divine in vibration to allow a darker perspective to intrude—that is its value. Patience can be the saving grace, so to speak, and help a person literally save the day to keep them on track. As you know from life experience, this can require an ongoing effort of months to years in coping with a dire circumstance of long duration, and intractable intensity, and makeup that can try the patience of almost anyone. But that is the test of humanity, to see can they prevail when challenged in this way? This is why cultivating virtues has great practical value because it can keep people in balance and on track despite the vicissitudes of life. That is the true test of an enlightened being.