fortitude
Fortitude is the ability to remain resolute and calm in the face of hardship or suffering. The mind undisturbed by harm has the fortitude of non-retaliation, the fortitude of enduring suffering, and the fortitude to practice the Dharma.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 71: Living an exemplary life
Developing authentic care and concern for others. The progression from faking it to being it…
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Verse 68: The one with intense discipline
How to work with our rationalizing mind that tries to make excuses to follow our…
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Kenneth Mondal Be there for the right reasons
The motives behind your actions are important. Are you motivated by your ego? Buddhism teaches…
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Chapter 6: Verses 141–150
Practical advice on how to work with anger especially that which arises from hearing abusive…
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Chapter 5: Verses 115-122
Benefits of cultivating faith and confidence in bodhisattvas who benefit innumerable sentient beings by skillful…
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Verse 43: Bearing small ordeals
Illuminating the importance of learning to bear small ordeals in preparation for aging, sickness and…
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Verse 37: The one who is most ridiculed
Those who lose their spiritual practice after falling from glory become ridiculed by those around…
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Incarcerated people 
Changing our wrong conceptions
Our happiness and suffering are based on our habitual ways of thinking and on how…
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa Review of Chapter 6: Part 2
Part 2 of a review of Chapter 6 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle…
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A long obedience
Exodus isn't just about liberation from slavery, it's also about rebinding. Just laws, or taking…
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