Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thanks for listening today.

I got a little something cooked up for you all today.

I've been reflecting on a sutra. This is one of the central pieces of work, writings, scripture,

aka sutras of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition.

And it goes by the name of, in Sanskrit, it's the Prajna Paramita Sutra, which gets translated

different ways, but it means something like the sutra or the verse, the scripture on the perfection of wisdom.

This is really the Prajna Parameda Sutra, the perfection of wisdom.

It's a compilation of about 40 texts, I think it is, that span several centuries from the first century before

the common era into the, I believe, into the fifth century, fifth or sixth century in the

common era. So 700 years span, lots of texts compiled together over the centuries.

And the central meditation, the through line is, you know, what is perfect wisdom?

And more specifically, how does perfect wisdom see and how does it do?

One of the paradoxes of wisdom,

and we read about this,

we discover this very beautifully and richly

in the Prajna Paramita Sutra,

absolute wisdom is absolute compassion.

Or we could say in even more plain terms, absolute freedom is absolute love.

This is a kind of polarity or a paradox that hangs together in an unspeakable unity in this verse, in this sutra.

And it's really worth your heart and your attention

if you feel called to looking into it more deeply.

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