Mothers’ Day brings to my mind Prajnaparamita, mother of all Buddhas. What IS prajnaparamita? We translate it as the “perfection of wisdom”. “Prajna” is “wisdom”, and “paramita” means “that which goes beyond”. Whatever’s happening right here and now. Where is the beyond? This practice that we do is all about looking into the nature of what is and what is beyond. When we refer to prajnaparamita, wisdom beyond wisdom, we are recognizing that wisdom is not a static “thing”. Rather the flowing nature of NOW. What makes up this sense of the present moment? What is true about it? How does it work? How does it coalesce in your heart and mind to seem so permanent and perhaps separate? Investigating this, we come to know intimately the mother of all Buddhas, the mother of being, the life we are living.
