“Don’t get angry with people who can’t yet do the practice. Just keep on teaching them. When their faculties mature, they’ll be ready to accept what you say. If you keep on acting in this way, problems fall away.
It’s like a fruit that’s still unripe. You can’t force it to become sweet, because it’s still unripe, still sour. It’s still small and unripe. You can’t force it to become large and sweet. Just let it be. When it matures, it’ll grow large on its own, sweet on its own, ripe on its own. If you can think in this way, you can be at your ease. That’s the way it is with people in the world.”