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Available
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Pantheon
Description
America's most senior Zen Roshi presents the "Transcendental Perfections": Giving, Morality, Patience, Zeal, Meditation, Wisdom, Compassion, Aspiration, Spiritual Power, and Knowledge. These 2,000-year-old ideas serve as both methods and goals to develop one's spiritual and moral life. Includes question and answer sections.
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ISBN
0679435107 / 9780679435105
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This book presents the Ten Paramitas, or Transcendental Perfections - namely, giving, morality, forbearance, zeal, focused meditation, wisdom, compassionate means, aspiration, spiritual power, and knowledge - 2,000-year-old ideals that can serve us as both methods and goals. The Paramitas are the
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"skillful means" a person may employ to nurture and develop his or her spiritual and moral life. In religious instruction we are often met by restrictions, and are told what not to do.The Paramitas, explained from a Zen perspective, offer the seeker 10 positive means of action, 10 ways to live a life of clarity and grace in a modern world where neither seems easy or even possible. The transcendental perfections can lead us toward a life that is both spiritually invigorated and socially engaged. Aitken Roshi's way of teaching - anecdotal, careful, insightful, and easily accessible - leads us further along the path of harmony and balance. Each of the inspiring and instructional essays in this book is followed by a section in which Aitken answers questions most often asked by his own students in their course of study. Show Less
Pages
226