Aging, illness and death have been called treasures for those who understand them. For in facing their issues and learning how to die we are in fact learning how to live.
The suffering caused by hatred can be unending, unless hatred is turned to love. Different methods of meditation practice enable this process of transformation.
The parami of patience not only enables endurance of great suffering but allows compassion to flower. A Tibetan monk imprisoned for 33 years explains his strength as "the fruit of taking the teachings seriously: resist anger, be patient, and do good to others".
Love, as it is ordinarily experienced in our world, leads to suffering. The leaders of the Burmese opposition party bear witness to the fact that love which has in it no attachment leads to freedom and peace.
