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The Pali word parami refers to ten wholesome qualities in our minds and the accumulated power they bring to us: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, lovingkindness, and equanimity.
Joseph Goldstein • Insight Meditation: A Psychology of Freedom (Shambhala Classics)
It is the realization of “no gain” that allows us to revere each thing, each person, each moment as ends in themselves, not as means toward some personal goal. The “uselessness” of true practice keeps it at odds with our various “secret practices,”
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
間 (Ma): o kanji que me faz valorizar as pausas e os vazios - Peach no Japão
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Gandhi calls ahinsa sadhan. The concept of sadhan does not map neatly into the western framework of means. Sadhana is part of a tri-partite framework. If you wanted to understand any purposeful action you need the telos, instrument and how to use the instrument. The procedure usually doesn’t come in the binary of the means-ends framework of the Wes
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Mahayana philosophy proposes a drastic but effective answer which is the theme of a class of literature called Prajna-paramita, or “wisdom for crossing to the other shore,” a literature closely associated with the work of Nagarjuna (c. A.D. 200), who ranks with Shankara as one of the greatest minds of India.
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
the hearing, contemplation, and study of Madhyamaka and Prajnaparamita are essential.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
We can get clearer about the Buddhist position if we recall that “empty” in the jargon of Buddhist metaphysics means lacking any fixed, unchanging, inner, or fundamental essence.