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The Six Paramitas
The Six Paramitas
In The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching , Thầy writes:
The Chinese symbol for paramita literally means “crossing over to the other shore”. The Buddha said: “Don’t just hope for the shore to come to you. If you want to cross over to the other shore, the shore of safety, well-being, non-fear and non-anger, you have to swim across or row across. You have to make an effort.” This effort is the practice of the Six Paramitas.
The Paramitas are our actions. They are often described as petals of a single flower. Practicing any one of them deeply, you breathe the perfume of them all.
In the same way that the Four Noble Truths are realized through mindfulness, concentration and insight, the Paramitas are a skillful means to see and to study Right Action. Mindfulness plants the seed of awareness, concentration waters that seed, and insight is the flower that blooms. Aware that suffering exists, aware that causes and transformation of suffering exist, the knowledge that a path to that transformation and the transformation itself also exist. The transformation is described in these six practices.