Pārami: Practices for Freedom (Weekend Retreat | Jan 14-16 2022)
How do you act in the world with compassion, clarity and kindness? Discover the ‘Pārami’ or ‘Pāramitas’, ancient qualities or ‘perfections’ that open the gateway of freedom in one’s being. This weekend course and retreat is offered in-person at Clear Sky Meditation Center, as well as online from your home.
Why Study the Pārami?
The Pārami are Practices for Freedom
We all have habits. Habits are comfortable! We do them every day, usually on auto-pilot. The difficulty with habits is that we’re not present. True freedom and well-being come from the degree to which we are present in each moment. By practicing the Pārami, or the ‘Perfections’, we experience new ways of engaging with the present moment that bring greater awareness and clarity. This interrupts our habits, which tend to be self-focused and unconscious.
When practiced in earnest, and with curiosity, we learn to apply the perfections in more and more situations. Over time, our experience of them deepens and we grow into richer states of freedom year by year. The pārami serve us well for our entire lifetime, and beyond.
In this course we will study the Six Pārami of Mahayana Buddhism.
There are countless translations of the Paramis, and they can be practiced in any order:
1. Generosity (Dāna)
2. Ethics (Śīla)
3. Patience (Kṣānti)
4. Effort (Vīrya)
5. Concentration (Dhyāna)
6. Wisdom and Insight (Prajñā)
This weekend retreat is available online as well as in-person. Video recordings will be available for one week after each class.
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