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Truth). Taming excitement, negative emotions, one’s anger, disappointment, depression,
steadily overcoming any difficulties and life problems as well as perfecting willpower.
The fourth paramita is perfection in zeal. Basically, it is self-control, getting joy in doing
good deeds as well as pleasure from any work, and producing thoughts directed only
towards enlightenment. Thanks to which a person parts with his own laziness, envy,
jealousy, and egoistic wishes (in Sufism, the seeker must finally part with his
attachments and desires).
The fifth paramita is the perfection of meditation. Buddhists call this stage also as
“comprehensive awareness” and “contemplation” (Sufis have two stages here:
realization of the Unity of the world and contemplation), when a person stops seeing the
world in a narrowed way from the egoistic observer and through the sight within him he
starts seeing the true reality of the world, practicing meditations. Then he starts to
understand what the true reality is, and a diversity of worlds opens to him. Man begins
to understand what the illusion of the mind is, and knowing the real world becomes his
dominant wish. It is believed that four other perfections create a favourable
environment, in which the spiritual sprout, begotten in meditation, will later give its ripe
fruit.
The sixth paramita is the perfection of transcendent (intuitive) wisdom. Quality spiritual
transformation of the person, spiritual awakening. Gaining the pure initial perception
devoid of any thoughts, reaching the high non-conceptual forms of consciousness (in
Sufism that is losing the human “I”, fusion of the seeker’s Soul with God), spiritual
vision when perception of the whole Reality happens instantly, without using the
conceptual human mind, which needs language, images, earthly associations and
categories of ideas.
Rigden: Yes, such is their conceptual scheme of attaining Nirvana. By the way, the
sixth stage of intuitive knowledge is called Prajniaparamita (“prajña” in Sanskrit means
“wisdom”, “understanding”) by them. This name is associated with a womanbodhisattva,
the Mother of Enlightenment, the goddess of the Supreme Perfect Wisdom
(Intuition).
As a rule, she is depicted with four arms, sitting in the lotus position on a large lotus
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