SIX-PARAMITAS

The six Paramitas are a teaching of Mahayana

Buddhism.
It can be translated as “Perfection” or “Perfect
realization.”
The practice of Six Paramitas leads ethicized
practice of daily life.
The substantial practice helps the person using
these ideas and standards to improve aspects
of daily life thereby lending a hand towards
the middle way.
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These thoughts and ideas can be accepted as

the ‘tools’ used in self perfection and the path
to enlightenment.
Human beings are on the shore of suffering,
anger, and depression but we want to cross
over to shore of well being that is inherent in
nature.
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Every time we take a mindful step we have a

chance to go from a land of sorrow to the land
of joy.
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Don’t just hope for the other shore to come to

you rather if you want to cross over to the
other shore i.e. the shore of safety, well
being, non fear and non anger you have to
swim or row across.
 MINDFULNESS
GIVING TRAINING
UNDERSTANDING

INCLUSIVENESS
SIX PARAMITAS

MEDITATION DILIGENCE
 Giving/Generosity:   By this means the perfection
of giving, dana paramita.
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 To Give means to offer joy, happiness and love.
 To offer true presence for someone.
 To maintain our stability; we can cultivate our
stability and solidity by practicing mindfulness.
 To practice our freedom; happiness is not possible
unless we are free from craving ,anger, jealousy,
despair, fear, and wrong perceptions.
 To practice peace; by offering our peace and
lucidity tolerance of different views and
standards of behavior used by others.
 By offering space; we give to others and we receive
at same time.
 By offering Understanding.
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 What you give is what you receive, more quickly

than the signals sent by satellite, it may be your
presence, your stability, your freshness, your solidity,
your freedom, or your understanding.
 Mindfulness Training:
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 The mindfulness training is also called shila paramita.
 The five mindfulness training are there which protect our body, mind, family, and
society.
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1) The first mindfulness training is about protecting the lives of human beings, animals, vegetables
and minerals.
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 2)The second is to prevent the exploitation by humans of other beings and of nature
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 3) The third is to protect children and adults from sexual abuse, to preserve the happiness of
individuals and families.
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 4) The fourth mindfulness training is to practice deep listening and loving speech.
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 5) The fifth mindfulness training is about mindful consumption.
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 These are the standards of conduct that are generally accepted as right or proper, in
a particular setting. We see the rightness or wrongness of something not as a judgment but
moreover as appropriate accepted behavior in a set of moral principles.
 Inclusiveness/Patience/Kshanti:
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 Inclusiveness is the capacity to receive, embrace and transform.

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 It includes forbearance, Patience, tolerance, or self-control, and
that are the key qualities of patience especially in not responding
to provocation.
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 Inclusiveness is contemplating the nature of earth, water, fire and
air in order to develop the virtues of love compassion, joy and
equanimity.
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 We become the tool with the ability to endure waiting, delay, or
provocation without becoming annoyed or upset.
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 We are called upon to persevere calmly when faced with
difficulties.
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 If you have developed large heartedness which is full with love,
compassion, and understanding you can suppress your pain without
experiencing it, you can receive it, embrace it and transform it.
 Energy/Diligence:
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 Buddha say we have all kinds of positive and negative energy

from within.
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 The negative seeds are seeds of anger, delusion, fear and the
positive seeds are seeds of understanding, compassion and
forgiveness.
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 Many of these seeds are transmitted to us by our ancestors.

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 We should refrain our self from allowing the negative seeds to be
watered in our daily life.
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 We should also avoid the “selective watering” of negative seeds.
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 To remain happy avoid watering negative seeds to your loved
one as well as others and ask them also not to water the same
thing in you or in others.
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 Promote “flower watering” i.e. recognizing the best seeds in
others and watering them.
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MIND CONSCIOUSNESS

STORE CONSCIOUSNESS
 Every seeds in our store consciousness can be touched and manifests itself on the
upper level i.e. in our mind consciousness.
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 Continued practice helps us not to allow the negative seeds in our store
consciousness to be touched in our daily life and not to give them a chance to
manifest themselves.
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 Buddha suggested a practice called “changing the peg”.
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 If you have a mental formation arising that you consider to be unwholesome, one
way to practice is to invite another mental formation to replace it.
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 The third practice is to touch as many positive seeds in your store consciousness
as you can so that they will manifest in your mind consciousness.
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 The fourth practice is to keep a wholesome seeds as long as possible once it has
manifested. This helps in strengthening the seeds of mindfulness, forgiveness,
and compassion to grow and promotes transformation at the base---- ashraya
paravritri which is the true meaning of the perfection of diligence.
 Meditation: (mental or spiritual development, contemplation)
 The perfection of meditation consists of two aspects.
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 1) Stopping (samatha); we run our whole life chasing after one

idea of happiness or another. Stopping is to stop our running, our
forgetfulness, our being caught in the past or the future.
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 Samatha is the practice of calming our body and emotions

through the practice of mindful breathing, mindful walking
mindful thinking, and mindful sitting.
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 Samatha is also the practice of concentrating, so we can live
deeply each moment of our life and touch the deepest level
of our being.
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 2) The second aspect is looking deeply or insightful meditation

i.e. Vipasana.
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 In Vipasana meditation  we have the opportunity to learn about

ourselves. Our focus  on the breath in meditation becomes
the prospect of developing  the mind and the ability of
concentrated thought.
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 From this we are able to aid ourselves in the development of
mental and spiritual maturity, reflection, and a contemplative
nature.
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 Doing everything mindfully is the practice of meditation, as
mindfulness always nourishes concentration and
Wisdom (knowledge gained through experience):
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The accumulated knowledge of life or of a

sphere of activity that has been gained
through experience.
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It is a kind of understanding that has power to
carry us to the other shore of freedom,
emancipation and peace.
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It is a fruit of practice; i.e. practice to be there,
practice to be mindful and practice to be
concentrated
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This is knowledge based on reality deeply.
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  Have a look at a wave on surface of the ocean
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 A wave is wave
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 It has a beginning and an end, it might be high

and low, more or less beautiful than other waves
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 But a wave is at same time water, water is the

ground of the being of the wave
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 This list of six Paramitas is for the enlightenment of all beings.
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 We strive in our everyday living to perfect ourselves. All of us should be

concerned about the welfare of all beings and strive to be mindful of their
suffering.
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 We offer a charity to all beings so that they may be happy, regardless whether
they are worthy or not.
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 We practice to avoid doing them any harm by observing morality. We must

train ourselves in order to bring morality to perfection.
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 We must purify our wisdom in order to understand clearly what is beneficial
and injurious.
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 We should constantly exert energy for the welfare and happiness of others.
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 In the end we are to practice patience towards all variety of human failings.
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 Buddhist ethics is a system of personal responsibility and accountability to
self. Buddhists believe that goodness comes from good action which is
brought about by intention, thought, and concentration.
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 Very basically Buddhism teaches us that no one has the right to judge
anyone or incidents that happen to us. We are not to take things
personally as these things happen to us all. We must realize that all
things pass.
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 Everything arises, and then falls away. Our unhappiness and sorrow
come from wanting to change things or hold onto things we cannot.
Allow yourself to let go. Allow yourself to breath.
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