Patience

As founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center in New York Allan Lokos has an arsenal of tools for coping with stressful situations. - Rachel Lee Harris New York TimesTo survive the roller-coaster ride of life with its ever-changing shifts from pleasure to pain gain to loss and praise to blame requires a substantial depth of patience. In this life-changing book Allan Lokos sheds new light on this much-sought-after state of mind and provides a road map for cultivating greater patience in one's life.According to Lokos to develop a depth of patience we must first acknowledge the unhappiness caused by our impatience and anger in its many manifestations-from mild annoyance to rage. In this revelatory book Lokos draws on his many years as a Buddhist practitioner and spiritual teacher as well as interviews with a wide range of individuals who have had their patience tested-often dramatically so-and lays out a compelling path to the heart of patience.