{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.164/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.164","id":"suttacentral_an4.164","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.164/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are four ways of practice. What four? Impatient practice, patient practice, taming practice, and calming practice. And what\u2019s the impatient practice? It\u2019s when someone abuses, annoys, or argues with you, and you abuse, annoy, or argue right back at them. This is called the impatient practice. And what\u2019s the patient practice? It\u2019s when someone abuses, annoys, or argues with you, and you don\u2019t abuse, annoy, or argue back at them. This is called the patient practice. And what\u2019s the taming practice? When a mendicant sees a sight with their eyes, they don\u2019t get caught up in the features and details. If the faculty of sight were left unrestrained, bad unskillful qualities of covetousness and displeasure would become overwhelming. For this reason, they practice restraint, protecting the faculty of sight, and achieving its restraint. When they hear a sound with their ears \u2026 When they smell an odor with their nose \u2026 When they taste a flavor with their tongue \u2026 When they feel a touch with their body \u2026 When they know an idea with their mind, they don\u2019t get caught up in the features and details. If the faculty of mind were left unrestrained, bad unskillful qualities of covetousness and displeasure would become overwhelming. For this reason, they practice restraint, protecting the faculty of mind, and achieving its restraint. This is called the taming practice. And what\u2019s the calming practice? It\u2019s when a mendicant doesn\u2019t tolerate a sensual, malicious, or cruel thought. They don\u2019t tolerate any bad, unskillful qualities that have arisen, but give them up, dispel them, calm them, eliminate them, and obliterate them. This is called the calming practice. These are the four ways of practice.\u201d","title":"Patient (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":281}