Tag: six perfections

A Koan for our Times: April - October 2024

By akasajoti on Thu, 21 Mar, 2024 - 12:18

A Koan for our Times: April - October 2024

By akasajoti on Thu, 21 Mar, 2024 - 12:18

Though the many beings are numberless, I vow to save them.
Though greed, hatred and ignorance rise endlessly, I vow to cut them off.
Though the dharma is vast and fathomless, I vow to understand it.
Though the Buddha’s way is beyond attainment, I vow to embody it fully.
- a formulation of the Bodhisattva Vow, quoted in Noble Friendship, Khantipalo

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Dharmabytes: An Integrated Ideal

By Centre Team on Thu, 18 Jan, 2024 - 11:00

Akasajoti talks about the hero’s journey as a middle way, referring to the Buddha’s life story. She describes practising with three creative dynamics in the spiritual life between ‘will and receptivity’, ‘inner calm and outer activity’, and ‘vision and transformation’, suggesting their resolution in the six perfections. Excerpted from the talk entitled The Hero’s Journey given at Adhisthana, 2022.

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FBA Podcast: Dhyana Paramita, The Perfection of Meditation

By Zac on Sat, 11 Mar, 2023 - 06:00

Kamalashila, author of ‘Buddhist Meditation: Tranquillity, Imagination, Insight’, introduces the fifth perfection, dhyana, in a series at the West London Buddhist Centre, 2012.

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Dharmabytes: Patience is the Greatest Asceticism

By Zac on Thu, 16 Feb, 2023 - 06:00

Sahajatara offers an introduction to the six paramitas as she touches into the development of forbearance with humour, realism and dakini-inspiration.

From the talk Forbearance and Energy In Pursuit of the Good given at Taraloka Retreat Centre, 2021.

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Polishing your Inner Jewel - An Online Course on the Six Perfections

By Ratnadeva on Tue, 16 Aug, 2022 - 06:46

Polishing your Inner Jewel - An Online Course on the Six Perfections

By Ratnadeva on Tue, 16 Aug, 2022 - 06:46

There are so many ways we can grow and change. Uncovering and polishing the six qualities of generosity, ethics, patience, energy, meditation and wisdom that we all have in us (a little or a lot) is one way of transforming. Whether we are just dusting them off or discovering them anew, investigating these ‘perfections’ will offer us more self-awareness, confidence and hints of freedom for our journey of life.

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FBA Podcast - Entering The Realm Of Perfect Wisdom

By Rijupatha on Sat, 15 Mar, 2014 - 18:13

FBA Podcast - Entering The Realm Of Perfect Wisdom

By Rijupatha on Sat, 15 Mar, 2014 - 18:13In our FBA Podcast this week, “Entering The Realm Of Perfect Wisdom,” Santavajri shares her connection with the Heart Sutra on Sangha Night at Sheffield Buddhist Centre. Talk was given on 5th May, 2008 as part of a series on Great Buddhist Texts.

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Today's Dharmabyte episode: "The Bodhisattva's Gifts" by Padmavajra

By Rijupatha on Thu, 9 Aug, 2012 - 18:37

Today's Dharmabyte episode: "The Bodhisattva's Gifts" by Padmavajra

By Rijupatha on Thu, 9 Aug, 2012 - 18:37Today’s FBA Dharmabyte, “The Bodhisattva’s Gifts,” by Padmavjra, is from the third talk in the series: “The Diamond Sutra – Taking Mind to its Limits.” Padmavajra takes a look into the world of the Bodhisattva and the six Perfections of Wisdom, especially dana – generosity which forms an essential basis of Buddhist practice and of life.

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