Shantideva's Guide.
The practical Mahayana manual: how the mind that works for others arises, and how it is kept. Its chapter on anger is still the most useful thing written on the subject in any tradition.
Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara is the Mahayana's practical handbook and its most quoted poem. It walks through the arising of bodhicitta and the perfections that sustain it, and its sixth chapter, on patience, contains an argument about anger that people still find annoyingly effective: if a problem can be fixed there is no use being angry, and if it cannot there is no use either; and since your enemy's harm arises from causes and conditions exactly as a fever does, being furious at the person is like being furious at the fire for being hot. The Dalai Lama has taught it repeatedly and describes it as the source of most of his own practice.
Where would I find enough leather to cover the earth? The soles of my shoes are leather enough.
Shantideva, Bodhicaryavatara 5 (rendered)Why the work is done on the mind rather than the world.
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