The Six Paramitas
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Striving to develop the skillful means to awaken
Implement the principles of right effort in daily life; analyze opportunities to cultivate wholesome thoughts...
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Sharing stories that inspire giving
Listen to and act out simple stories about generous animals or children, draw pictures of...
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Discovering generosity through practice
Design and implement a classroom generosity project, track acts of giving in a personal journal,...
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Learning generosity through Buddhist stories
Analyze the role of generosity in Buddhist Jataka tales and compare with contemporary examples, evaluate...
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Understanding generosity as spiritual foundation
Design personal experiments to test how generous actions affect mental states and relationships. Analyze the...
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Generosity as a practice
Differentiate between ordinary giving and transcendent generosity (dana) that expects nothing in return; analyze how...
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Meditation as a practice
Differentiate between ordinary concentration and the paramita of dhyana as described in Buddhist texts; analyze...
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Patience as a practice
Analyze the three forms of Buddhist patience: enduring harm from others, persevering through practice difficulties,...
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Wisdom as a practice
Analyze how discriminating wisdom (prajna) reveals they way all things have no independent existence (emptiness);...
