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**Prajna**/**Panna** Another basic term often encountered.
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Prajna ( Sanskrit ) or Panna ( Pali ) is often translated as 'wisdom'. which can be misleading as it has overtones of behaviour based on experience..
A better translation ( imo ) is 'discernment.'
Prajna/Panna arises non-verbally by intuition. It is the result of a degree of integration of the mental faculties.
That integration is itself a result of one pointedness, of a degree of stillness in the chattering, discursive mind.
When it arises it can be compared to a torch beam, in the light of Prajna/Panna dry doctrines like anicca ( 'change and flux in everything ' ) can be seen directly to be the case, without deduction or ideation.
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Prajna...one of the six paramitas....right?
Si kemo sabe.
In Mahayana, yes. Remember Theravada has ten.
(so there.
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