Perfection of Wisdom

This paramita is the enlightened quality of transcendental wisdom, insight, and the perfection of understanding.  

The essence of this paramita is the supreme wisdom, the highest understanding that living beings can attain—beyond words and completely free from the limitation of mere ideas, concepts, or intellectual knowledge.  

Beyond the limited confines of intellectual and conceptual states of mind, we experience the awakened heart-mind of wisdom and compassion—prajna paramita.

Prajna paramita is the supreme wisdom (prajna) that knows emptiness and the interconnectedness of all things.

This flawless wisdom eliminates all false and distorted views of the absolute. We see the essential nature of reality with utmost clarity; our perception goes beyond the illusive and deceptive veils of material existence.  

With the perfection of wisdom, we develop the ability to recognize the truth behind the temporary display of all appearances.

Prajna paramita is a result of contemplation, meditation, and rightly understanding the nature of reality.  

Ultimately, the full realization of prajna paramita is that we are not simply a separate self trying to do good.

Rather, virtuously serving the welfare of all beings is simply a natural expression of the awakened heart.

We realize that the one serving, the one being served, and the compassionate action of service, are all the same totality—there is no separate ego or self to be found in any of these.  

With this supreme wisdom, we go beyond acceptance and rejection, hope and fear, dualistic thoughts, and ego-clinging.

We completely dissolve all these notions, realizing everything as a transparent display of the primordial truth.

If our ego is attached even to the disciplines of these paramitas, this is incorrect perception and we are merely going from one extreme to another.

In order to free ourselves from these extremes, we must release our ego attachment and dissolve all dualistic concepts with the insight of supreme wisdom.  

This wisdom transforms the other five paramitas into their transcendental state as well. Only the illumination of supreme wisdom makes this possible.

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