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Transcendent Wisdom" (also: the "Perfection of Wisdom") meanwhile, means the ability to see reality as it truly is, a deep and liberating spiritual knowledge that is the source of all virtues. Prajñāpāramitā is thus "a state of consciousness which understands emptiness ( shunyata ), the absence of 'self' or intrinsic nature even in dharmas."
It may have involved the knowledge that liberation was attained by the combination of mindfulness and dhyāna, applied to the understanding of the arising and ceasing of craving. The relation between dhyana and insight is a core problem in the study of Buddhism, and is one of the fundamentals of Buddhist practice.
knowledge or wisdom that is acquired from books or listening to others. reflective paññā (cinta-maya-paññā) knowledge or wisdom that is acquired from thought or logic and reasoning. paññā from spiritual development (bhāvanā-maya-paññā) knowledge or wisdom that is acquired from direct spiritual experience.
As with all Indian religions, moksha is the ultimate spiritual goal in Jainism. It defines moksha as the spiritual release from all karma. [123] Jainism is a Sramanic non-theistic philosophy that believes in a metaphysical permanent self or soul often termed jiva. Jaina believe that this soul is what transmigrates from one being to another at ...
The Buddhist term translated into English as "mindfulness," "to remember to observe," [4] originates in the Pali term sati and in its Sanskrit counterpart smṛti.According to Robert Sharf, the meaning of these terms has been the topic of extensive debate and discussion. [8]
Greatness of understanding (jñāna): from understanding the absence of self in persons and phenomena (pudgala-dharma-nairātmya); Greatness of energy (vīrya): from devotion to many hundreds of thousands of difficult tasks during three incalculable great aeons (mahākalpa);
The Prajñāpāramitā (Perfection of Wisdom) Sutras taught that all entities, including dharmas, are empty of self, essential core, or intrinsic nature , being only conceptual existents or constructs. [37] [38] The notion of prajña (wisdom, knowledge) presented in these sutras is a deep non-conceptual understanding of emptiness. [39]
Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence. [1] This viewpoint questions the boundaries conventionally imposed between self and other, mind and body, observer and observed, [2] and other dichotomies that shape our perception of reality.