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Full Idea
The six perfections are of giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom.
Gist of Idea
The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom
Source
Nagarjuna (Mahaprajnaparamitashastra [c.120], 88)
Book Ref
'Buddhist Scriptures', ed/tr. Conze,Edward [Penguin 1959], p.32
A Reaction
What is 'morality', if giving is not part of it? I like patience and vigour being two of the virtues, which immediately implies an Aristotelian mean (which is always what is 'appropriate').
| 7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
| 7607 | Nagarjuna and others pronounced the world of experience to be an illusion [Nagarjuna, by Armstrong,K] |