Buddhism needs to be Lived

I'm a theosophist first - which means I read a lot of books, but of those books - Buddhist ones often appeal to me most.

In this forum I guess it's relevant that I try to practice the five precepts aka pancha sila or pansil.

That one of my continuing concerns is the practice of patience along the lines of Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron and that practicing compassion seems to me the basic Buddhist practice - and one of the reasons Buddhism appeals to Westerners so much.