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And so we reach our final of the six perfections: wisdom. The jewel of the perfections. If generosity is the entry to the mandala of perfection, then wisdom is the realisation of it’s bigger picture.
From the time Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha) was a young child, he burned with the essential questions: What is the meaning of life? Who am I? What is everything about? As he grew up, his contempla- tion of these matters became all-consuming. As we know, in adult- hood he renounced the life of ease and power he’d been born into and devoted himself to seeking wisdom- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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