Six Perfections

The Far-Reaching Patience of Readily Accepting Suffering Meditation is a method to overcome the mind being under the control of compelling karmic impulses and disturbing emotions, thereby creating suffering for ourselves. The fact that meditation functions like this shows that...

Review: Precious Human Life and Working toward Getting Rid of Suffering In the progression of the lam-rim, the graded stages, we have gone through the initial and intermediate scopes. Based on our discussions so far, we’ve seen that before we start to deconstruct the...

The Mechanism of Karmic Causes Giving Rise to Karmic Results If we properly understand that there is no such thing as self-established existence (rang-bzhin-gyis grub-pa, inherent existence), we understand conventional existence established in terms of dependent arising. But...

The Impropriety of Giving Initiations to Those Having No Understanding of Voidness  It is wrong for lamas to give initiations to those who don’t even know about bodhichitta and voidness. Perhaps they are only giving them for fame. The Nalanda masters did not give...

We need to recognize a self-cherishing attitude in ourselves and try to eliminate it. If we at least realize we have such an attitude, it will be great progress.

The six perfections or six far-reaching attitudes will take us all the way to the other shore, which is enlightenment.

An extensive and deep presentation of the six perfections, including a profound discussion of voidness.

The secondary bodhisattva vows are to refrain from 46 faulty actions.

The ten far-reaching attitudes are states of mind that bring bodhisattvas to enlightenment. Although shravakas may also develop these attitudes, they are not considered “far-reaching” unless they are conjoined with a bodhichitta aim.

The four Tibetan Buddhist traditions – Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug – present slightly different division schemes of the six far-reaching attitudes.