Month: June 2019

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jnana is connection

Jnana Is About Connection

Jnana is about connection. I’ll admit, this final paramita has been difficult to practice. It’s more like preparation for jnana, rather than jnana itself. Because you can’t really do anything to make awakened awareness come to you. You have to wait for it. But what I’ve…

words freight

Words With Freight

Are we using words with freight? Robert Aitken spent his entire chapter on jnana describing how language has lost its power. He writes, “All words and phrases were intimate with experience but many have lost their intimacy, which is to say they have lost their meaning.…

healing knowledge

Healing Knowledge

Jnana is healing knowledge. While learning about this tenth and final paramita, the word knowledge is regularly used to translate it. The reason so many Western writers use other translations (like awakened awareness) is because for us, knowledge is so riddled with complications. Knowledge can be…

awareness embodies wisdom

Awareness Embodies Wisdom

Awareness embodies wisdom. But they are not the same thing. Lama Surya Das puts it this way: Wisdom is everything. Awakened awareness realizes this. In other words, awakened awareness is what allows wisdom to be embodied in a holistic way. Wisdom becomes being. Another way of…