The Six Perfections: An Oral Teaching
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (935 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559390891 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-22 |
| Language | : | Tibetan |
DESCRIPTION:
The Six Perfections of generosity, ethical discipline, patience, enthusiastic effort, concentration, and wisdom are practiced by Bodhisattvas who have the supreme intention of attaining enlightenment for the sake of others. Generosity leads to the enjoyment of ample resources, ethical discipline gives a good rebirth, patience leads to an attractive appearance and supportive companions, enthusiastic effort endows the ability to complete what is undertaken, fostering concentration makes the mind invulnerable to distraction, and wisdom discriminates between what needs to be cultivated and what must be discarded and leads to greater wisdom in the future. . Practice of them also insures the attainment of an excellent body and mind in the future and even more favorable conditions for effective practice than those we enjoy at present. These six are perfections because they give rise to complete enlightenment
"Wonderful book for all backgrounds" according to Nomad. What a great book. Simple elegant illustrations of how one's daily reactions, usually not given a second thought, compound one's fate in THIS life. So your future depends on your reactions to the present, and your reactions can be changed by conscious effort. Same point as Covey's Seven Habits, NLP, Tao Te Ching, Peter Ralston's Cheng Hsin . A great teacher wrote this! RootReads This book teaches me something on every page. It addresses the six Paramitas aka six perfections one by one in a way that is helping me get the idea of the Buddhist journey - esp the chapter on Wisdom. I'm a beginner so I try to stay with core Buddhist teachings from authentic teachers.. "Wise is hard to swallow" according to Herve. When I originally purchased this book, I knew the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path, and I had some insight into dependent origination. Geshe Sonam book left me non-plussed, drained. Reading was as difficult as swimming into coal-tar.I took the book from the shelves, once in a while, and everytime I felt a stronger sense of wisdom and penetration. The
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