6 Perfections

On By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Astrology, Meditation, Something altogether different, Transformation

Day 10 Nano Poblano

Yesterday i wrote about practicing and about imperfection and the perfection of imperfection. Then, today, I visited my new spiritual home at the Kadampa center, for probably the 6th week in a row or cumulatively, not sure.

We have been embarking on these perfections as a family. This is taught by the Buddha that the 6 perfections are:

Generosity,

Moral discipline/morality,

Patience,

Effort/Energy,

Wisdom,

Meditation,

All of these aspects are related to karma. Karma is an often misunderstood concept and topic. It’s really a cause and effect relationship rather than a “punishment” or “reward.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about my personal spiritual journey and how it overlaps with my immediate family. My daughter is learning meditation and my husband and I met at a Buddhist meditation group over 13 years ago. We both practiced meditation before we met, with our own orientations and backgrounds.

In some ways, we are back on our paths. In some ways our paths overlap. And in other ways, we journey alone. The discussion and dharma talk always takes me exactly where I want to be: in the inquiry. I feel nourished my the inquiry and not clinging to feelings and impressions. I feel more like myself to gently embrace concepts and practice them as an investigation. In the meantime, I am accumulating some faith.

Faith is a word usually reserved for Christianity. I was originally brought up with many different forms of Christianity. Then when I was 21 I traveled East and received many different blessings from Indian and South East Asian traditions and explored them deeply with my heart. The cognitive aspects of the exploration have always been not as important, but they are still present. I have no desire to get super academic about my spirituality. I don’t ever wish to get saturated in dogma, but to remain inquisitive while building my own confidence in the fruits of my practice. My practice is for inner peace and to be an extension of that work in my world and in my life. It doesn’t matter how I get there, just that I am consistent and earnest in my endeavors.

Many bloggers are now over on Substack. I’ve joined just enough to comment on those blogs that I am able to read. It’s interesting to see the options that Substack is offering and I’m seeing more and more that there are people who are favoring connecting with their readers through that platform.

16 thoughts on “6 Perfections”

  1. The one thing I do believe is that thankfully all is built on that love Ka, regardless of nationality, culture, religion, color or creed. Enjoy the journey kind lady, it is all a builder of hearts 🤗❤️🙏

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  2. I feel most fortunate in that I grew up in a home where there was no formal religion. I was given the freedom to explore in my own way. My Mother was an atheist and my Father involved in eastern philosophies…. This has given me the freedom to explore without hindrance of dogma. Thank you dear Ka for this post:)XX

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    1. I have indeed had such a similar upbringing with so much to choose from and not one ☝🏽 “right” way above all others. I feel immensely grateful that I have spiritual freedom in my life; because of the nature of my own individual path, I’ve been able to respect all others. I feel like my spirituality is the deep richness that I’ve cultivated with influences from travel and mystic — direct connection. Along the way I’ve been aided by spiritual teachers, too. I am devoted to the path of love. 💗

      I’m glad I didn’t miss this comment!!!

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  3. Funnily enough, Buddhism was a topic of conversation yesterday for the first time in quite a while in my life, and it rekindled an interest, and here I found your blog today~ I love little synchronicities like that! Are you writing on substack now? I haven’t looked into it but maybe I should if that’s where people are moving and you are finding engaged community there….

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    1. Hi Kristen! I love that synchronicity!
      I am not writing on substack yet. I’m getting enticed though because all the cool kids seem to be shifting to over there. One of the advantages I see besides the engagement is the multi-media abilities. Check it out and maybe we will both end up there. Right now I’m not in a hurry, just trying to keep up with what I already have going on:)

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  5. I, too, find that many mistaken the concept of karma, so thank you for writing the correcting info. I appreciate that you write so candidly and with so much depth; it’s so intriguing to read about your and your family’s experiences.

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