Ksanti Paramita - a talk from Jnanavaca

Jnanavaca, one of the current deputy chair’s of the Preceptors’ College, who lives at the London Buddhist Centre will be our third speaker on the theme of Ksanti Paramita. Ordained in India in 1999, he had decided he was a Buddhist in his early teens, beginning an existential search that led him to the LBC in 1994, aged 28. Soon after he moved into one of the communities, where he has lived ever since, working and teaching, and serving for 10 years as the Chair. He is currently writing a book with Maitreyabandhu on the theme of insight in the Triratna System of Practice.
Now ksanti is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful words in the whole vocabulary of Buddhism…, it means forbearance, but included is also the idea of gentleness, of humility… and ksanti also contains very definite overtones, or undertones if you like, of love, even compassion, of tolerance, and of acceptance, and receptivity.
Urgyen Sangharakshita
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