Herons are fortunate in their ability to be patient in fishing for what they want. For his part, Man is unique in placing time constraints on the results that he wants in life and, in so doing, becomes restless rather than still. It is of course far easier to be patient for something when the outcome of it is certain, because in certainty there is less room for anxiety.
There is a direct correlation between patience and certainty as there is between impatience and doubt. The more impatient you are for something to go the way you want, the more you begin to question whether it will. Say, for example, you begin to question an intuitive idea that you were once certain was right. Your questioning causes you increasingly to doubt it, until you think it is absurd and either ignore it or distort it to fit into your ‘perfectly rational’ constraints. Although the idea was most certainly right, your rationale, influenced by your impatience to get where you’re going, perceives it as wrong, or at least too slow a route to your desired result.
The key to being patient, therefore, is in having greater certainty of the outcome. The immediate obstacle for us in accepting this, though, is how we can be certain of an outcome when we can only influence, not control, an event and time that has not yet happened.
This concept is alien enough to our conditioned thinking, but harnessing the immense power that infinite patience affords requires us to go further into previously forgotten ways of thinking. Yet in applying the prerequisites of the concept, one begins to recognise, or know again, that it is a natural way of thinking; a new unbounded way that produces quicker results, for without doubt patience with another reflects the measure of patience we have with ourselves. This is the basis of the paradox — only infinite patience produces immediate results.
Before understanding what is involved, stop reading for a moment and, thinking from your heart rather than your head, reflect on the truth of the following concepts, (i) Harnessing the power of infinite patience will put you at ease. (a) The absolute certainty that what you deeply want for yourself inevitably happens will free you from your insistence on having it now.
Your thoughts have no doubt re-affirmed what is seemingly common, or natural sense. But common sense is rarely common practice. What is common practice is allowing the ego’s demands, based on fear and impatience, to dominate our thinking. It is the ego that insists on having what it wants now by convincing us how much is missing from our life. If its demands are not satisfied it convinces us how unfair life is. Conversely, if we do satisfy it, it will simply furnish us with another set of demands tomorrow. Freedom from the distracting ego is discussed in the seventh scroll, but right now, as long as we allow the ego to dominate our thinking, we will not attain the infinite patience that detachment from outcome requires.
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