What Are the 6 Perfections? Dr. Jan Willis

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A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
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Dr. Willis guides us through the six perfections—generosity, morality, patience, joyful effort, concentration, and wisdom—profound practices that were once closely guarded, secret teachings. In this episode, Dr. Willis offers a heartfelt introduction to these transformative ideas, weaving in stories from her remarkable life. She shares wisdom from revered Buddhist masters, reflects on resisting racism in the segregated South, and offers insights as a leading Western Buddhist practitioner and scholar.
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Willis, Jan. "What Are the 6 Perfections?" Produced by A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment Jan 7, 2025. How to Train a Happy Mind Podcast, Episode 180. Video, 49:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhuFFVp0gY8.
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Śīla - Skt शील  Tib ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་  Ch 戒  

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Kṣānti - Patience is the ability to remain calm and composed when facing difficulties, suffering, or harm from others, without becoming angry or discouraged. Skt क्षान्ति  Tib བཟོད་པ་  Ch 忍;忍辱  

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Dhyāna - Skt ध्यान  Tib བསམ་གཏན་  Ch 禪;禪那;靜慮  

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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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