In todayand#8217;s Dharmabyte, Kulaprabha shares a reading of and#8216;The Hymn to Perfect Wisdomand#8216; from and#8216;The Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Linesand#8217;. This is the first track in the talk of the same title, and#8216;On the Hymn to Perfect Wisdomand#8216;, which will be featured in this Saturdayand#8217;s FBA Podcast.
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The Hymn to Perfect Wisdom
[music] Dharma Vites is brought to you by Free Buddhist Audio, the Dharma for real life. Our work is funded entirely by donations from our generous listeners. If you would like to help us keep this free, come and join us at freebuddhistaudio.com/community. Thank you and happy listening. I first gave this talk. This is a series of reflections. The hymn to the perfection of wisdom, which is in this book, which is a perfection of wisdom in 8,000 lines. So it's one of the short chapters in that. And it was on a retreat here a couple of years ago called the heart of wisdom. The same sort of theme. I'll give it here then and didn't record it. So on this retreat I thought, oh, it does cover similar sort of material. So it's just a good chance to do it again for its own sake. So I'm just going to start off and I'll read through the hymn again. It's the one we heard last night. So Sariputra is the person who's talking. He starts off, he says, "The perfection of wisdom, O Lord, is the accomplishment of the cognition of the all-knowing. The perfection of wisdom is the state of all knowledge." And then the Buddha replies, "So it is, Sariputra, as you say." And then Sariputra carries on. "The perfection of wisdom gives light, O Lord. I pay homage to the perfection of wisdom. She is worthy of homage. She is unstained. The entire world cannot stain her. She is a source of light, and from everyone in the triple world she removes darkness, and she leads away from the blinding darkness caused by the defilements and by wrong views. In her we can find shelter. Most excellent are her works. She makes us seek the safety of the wings of enlightenment. She brings light to the blind. She brings light so that all fear and distress may be forsaken. She has gained the five eyes, and she shows the path to all beings. She herself is an organ of vision. She disperses the gloom and darkness of delusion. She does nothing about all dharmas. She goes to the path those who have strayed onto a bad road. She is identical with all knowledge. She never produces any dharma because she has forsaken the residues relating to both kinds of coverings, those produced by defilements and those produced by the cognizable. She does not stop any dharma. Her self-unstopped and unproduced is the perfection of wisdom. She is the mother of the Bodhisattvas on account of the emptiness of own marks. As the donor of the jewel of all the Buddha-dharmas, she brings about the ten powers of a Buddha. She cannot be crushed. She protects the unprotected with the help of the four grounds of self-confidence. She is the antidote to birth and death. She has a clear knowledge of the own being of all dharmas, for she does not stray away from it. The perfection of wisdom of the Buddhas, the Lords, sets in motion the wheel of the Dharma. We hope you enjoyed the talk. Please come and help us keep this free at freebuddhistaudio.com/community. And thank you. [music] [music] [music] [music] You [BLANK_AUDIO]