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In keeping with our 100-day Ango Practice Season, we look at the Bodhisattva Virtue of  .... Vow and Commitment (pranidhana) The most fundamental Bodhisattva's vows are these four, which we chant daily ... To save all sentient beings, though beings numberless To transform all delusions, though delusions inexhaustible To perceive Reality, though Reality is boundless To attain the Enlightened Way, a...

We continue with our series on the Ten Pure Virtues or "Perfections" of a Bodhisattva ....   with Skillful Means (Upaya)   Historian and Soto Zen Priest Taigen Dan Leighton writes ... Skillful Means, upaya in Sanskrit ... is an essential concept in Mahayana Buddhism. Skillful means, sometimes translated as tactfulness, expedients, or ingenuity, is the practice of applying awakening teaching to the...

Ten Pure Virtues or "Perfections" are fundamental to the Bodhisattva path. Now we come to Wisdom (Prajna Paramita) In Mahayana Buddhism, this means seeing into, piercing  ... emptiness ...  being, allowing, witnessing and losing ourselves in ... the dance of emptiness ...

On Today's "Top Ten" Countdown of the  "Pure Virtues of the Bodhisattva" ... ... we come to No. 5 ...  Meditation .. Dhyana ... (not to be confused with the 50's song 'Diana' ...  Hold me, darling, ho-ho hold me tight  Squeeze me baby with-a all your might Oh, please stay by me, Diana  Oh, please, Diana  Oh, please, Diana  Oh, please, Diana)   Anyway, we spoke about this just a few days ago, in lo...

Last time, in our discussion of the Ten Pure Virtues or "Perfections" (Paramitas) of the Bodhisattva path ... we talked about "Patience" ... ... and today we will talk about the Perfection of Effort and Diligence (Virya Paramita). All the perfections go hand-in-hand, each supporting and nurturing the others. Each is part of the Bodhisattva's vow to "Save All Sentient Beings". But "Patience" and "D...

Ten Pure Virtues or "Perfections" (Paramitas in Sanskrit) are fundamental to the Bodhisattva path. Today, we will discuss the Perfection of Patience  (Kshanti Paramita) If the video does not work today ...  please consider it a perfect chance to put this Perfection into Practice!

Ten Pure Virtues or "Perfections" (Paramitas in Sanskrit) are fundamental to the Bodhisattva path. Today, we will discuss the Perfection of an ethical life,  in keeping with the Precepts  (Shila Paramita)

Ten Pure Virtues or "Perfections" (Paramitas in Sanskrit) are fundamental to the Bodhisattva path. Today, we will discuss Generosity (Dana Paramita)

Over the next few weeks, we'll be looking at several of the famous "Greats" among the Bodhisattvas. The "Greats" include Kannon, Maitreya, Manjusri, Jizo, Samantabhadra and many others. We'll look at a few Buddhas too ... Especially in Mahayana Buddhism, a "Bodhisattva" is an enlightened being, or one bound for enlightenment, who ... motivated by great compassion, and even postponing her own attai...