Module 7: The Bodhisattva Path I: Bodhicitta & The Six Paramitas · The Buddha’s Path
Session 5 - Diligence, Meditation & Wisdom
David Oromith · 79 minutes · recorded February 19, 2025
A guided meditation on refuge and bodhicitta weaves earlier themes together: visualising the Buddha, taking refuge, the four immeasurables, and his light dissolving into one's heart. David covers the final three paramitas: joyful diligence, with its three kinds of enthusiasm and matching laziness, concentration and its nine stages towards shamatha, and wisdom as the direct insight into emptiness underlying all the others. A question asks what it means to ask the Buddha for guidance.
Emptiness Enthusiastic effort (virya) Habits and change Refuge Sangha and community The bodhisattva path The six perfections (paramitas) Bodhicitta practice Shamatha (calm abiding) The four immeasurables