The patience of disregarding harm
72 Middle-Length Lamrim
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Stages of the Path 
Jun 19, 2025 Part of a series of weekly teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
In this talk Venerable Sangye Khadro draws from the section in the The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment; The Lamrim Chenmo, (vol. 2, pp. 160 - 164) on the patience of disregarding harm done to oneself.
- Meditation on the faults of anger
- Developing patience with those who harm you
- On the analysis of whether the object has self-control, anger is unjustified
- Seeing that the person is under the control of causes and conditions
- It’s the fault of the afflictions in the mind of the person doing harm
- On the analysis for either adventitiousness or inherency, anger is unjustified
- On the analysis of whether the harm is direct or indirect, anger is unjustified
- On the analysis of the cause that impels the harmdoers, anger is unjustified
- On the analysis of the subject, anger is unjustified
Venerable Sangye Khadro
California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974 and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Venerable Thubten Chodron. She took bhikshuni (full) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied with many Buddhist masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. At her teachers’ request, she began teaching in 1980 and has since taught in countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, and the FPMT centre in Denmark. From 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable has authored a number books found here, including the best-selling How to Meditate. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
