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The Paramita of Generosity
“Lord Buddha clearly said that every method, every teaching, down to the specific details, is just a method, a guideline. The teachings are all relative truth. What lies behind this relative truth is absolute truth. Absolute truth is beyond number, beyond any specific quality-like generosity and morality-beyond any categories we can devise. Teachings are given to provide ways to reach that ultimate state but are in themselves considered relative.
The difference between a particular quality such as generosity and the paramita of generosity lies in the depth of its practice and subsequent realisation. Generosity is always generosity, but the complete realization of generosity is the paramita of generosity.
In Tibetan, paramita is referred to as ‘pha-rol tu chin-pa’, which means reaching the other side. When we cross a river, all of our effort goes to reaching the other side of the river. All of the methods Buddha gave for practicing generosity are for the ultimate destination of reaching the other side of generosity. That’s the paramita. The action of giving, and everything around the action, externally and internally (i.e., the intention and the action), is the generosity itself.
Generosity paramita doesn’t mean we must give and give until we have nothing. It also doesn’t mean we must give until someone else is fully satisfied. At first, we’re hesitant to give. At the same time, we become greedy to give. We want to give. It’s a process. When we go beyond this, it becomes one. There is no difference between our having it or someone else’s having it. There’s no giver, there’s no one to give to, there’s nothing to give. It becomes one. We call this the three circles: the circle of the giver (the subject), the circle of whom something is to be given (the object), and the circle of what is there to be given.
The paramita is reaching beyond all three. They only become paramitas when they reach beyond the three circles. In Madhyamaka terms, we say Khor-sum, which means three circles. Khor-sum Nam-par du Tog-pa means reaching beyond the thought and any notion of those three wheels. So, it is the complete realisation of Paramita.
His Eminence Tai Situ RInpoche
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Updated: 2009-08-10
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