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  • What he was doing, he reiterated, was seeking the truth, prajna, wisdom.

    The Silence 2010

  • What he was doing, he reiterated, was seeking the truth, prajna, wisdom.

    The Silence 2010

  • What he was doing, he reiterated, was seeking the truth, prajna, wisdom.

    The Silence 2010

  • That is the ultimate meaning of meditation --- a direct look --- not just at what our concepts are, not just what we've been told is true by some wise (or not wise) person, not just what our parents told us, but a direct look with the eyes of prajna (unbiased discriminating awareness).

    David Nichtern: Death, Impermanence and Continuity 2010

  • We might even begin to welcome obstacles as an opportunity to engage in virtuous activity: patience, generosity, discipline. meditation, exertion, and their binding factor, prajna—wisdom rooted in seeing things as they are.

    Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche - How to Work with Obstacles William Harryman 2009

  • In the Mahayana, this "compassion" appears as a kind of sister virtue alongside that of "wisdom" prajna.

    Kelamuni unimpressed by Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • In the Mahayana, this "compassion" appears as a kind of sister virtue alongside that of "wisdom" prajna.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Mindful breathing can clean the channels so that prajna can link the individual to the infinite or transcendent consciousness. strengthen will-power; increase the power of penetrating insight; develop the holistic, synthesising, expansive capability;acquire a tranquil inner world; enable the mind to provide its own authentic feedback;pursue ethico-moral fitness; capture the awareness of unity.

    The Indian concept of leadership is based on the ‘Rajarshi’ model Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • These psycho-physical exercises aim to achieve the following goals: purify the nerve channels which interlink the memory base (chitta), the manas (seat of emotions and feelings), discriminating intellect (buddhi), and intuitive wisdom (prajna).

    The Indian concept of leadership is based on the ‘Rajarshi’ model Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • These psycho-physical exercises aim to achieve the following goals: purify the nerve channels which interlink the memory base (chitta), the manas (seat of emotions and feelings), discriminating intellect (buddhi), and intuitive wisdom (prajna).

    Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

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  • pure and unqualified knowledge.

    Also called Enlightenment.

    May 20, 2009