How are we meant to be tolerant when people like this exist?

meh_

Yacababy

He is suffering... He is trying to alleviate himself but doesn't know money will not help him. Have sympathy for him and how conditioned he is. View it as a challenge to build your patience.

genkaku

The good thing about seeing mistakes is that we can then vow not to make them ourselves.

Anupassī

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.162.than.html

ThailandTom

I once heard that as humans in this modern age we are conditioned to store in our mind for the majority the negative. So, we remember the mistakes, the things that went wrong or the things that hurt our ego. Yes, sometimes you can remember not to do that again, BUT if you remember what you did correctly in life, what worked in a certain situation, store that information, then surely you will be better off... As Ajahn Brahm said, stop collecting shit

Epicurus

Lol his screams are hilarious.

federica

@meh, you aren't supposed to be tolerant.

You're supposed to be Compassionate, Wise and accepting.

Tolerance infers a certain amount of critical judgment. An appraisal to how far you are prepared to put up with something, and at what point you put your foot down and declare the line has been crossed and the boundary breached.

This is of course something we should be aware of, when something directly involves us, like for example, if we have young children, and a lodger who's an ex hard-drugs addict, but still smokes weed in his spare time. We tolerate his desire to smoke weed, providing it does not impinge upon our family life, and providing he never indulges under our roof, in front of my children.
He knows the score, and we tolerate his craving - up to a point.

This does not eradicate compassion, however.

Acceptance is for precisely the thing you show in your link.

There's not a blind bit we could personally do about it, and it doesn't affect us, even though he preys on the gullible.
Furthermore, even if we could reach out to him, and try to affect his behaviour positively - would he listen?
2 chances of that: Bob Hope and No Hope.
We can only look upon him with compassion, kindness and the fervent hope that those he preys on, won't take the bait....
We have to practice non-judgmental acceptance. We can evaluate his behaviour as decidedly unskilful, but to condemn him is not our place.

compassionate_warrior

Faith healing has been around since time immemorial. The mind can be a powerful healer, traditional healers around the world know this, that is why they sometimes use sleight-of-hand in their healing--to trick the patient's mind into causing a spontaneous healing. The placebo effect can be an effective tool. But can it heal AIDS? (I hope the 17-year old who called in got a follow-up HIV test.) Are the seemingly miraculous effects that faith healers inspire long-lasting? Studies show that in most cases, they are only temporary.

I don't see what was portrayed in the film as much different from Tibetan beliefs that glimpsing the black hat of the Karmapa can bestow instant Enlightenment, or that the Medicine Buddha ceremony can heal. (I have no doubt that in some cases it can; faith and devotion can work wonders.) The difference is that the "pastor" on TV is more blatantly seeking donations.