Speakers: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel speaks with her teacher, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, about the paramita of patience. A common misconception is that patience is a passive ability to "grin and bear it" or to endure suppressed anger. Rather, it is better understood as a creative and active way of working with the mind. Patience becomes a kind of inner armor, protecting us from afflictive states such as pain and aggression. Rinpoche describes it as "the ability not to be bothered"—a quality of non-reactivity that, when cultivated, invites grace and opens us to the experience of unconditional well-being and universal love.