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Defining Heroic Progress

Posted on December 24, 2025 by Vajragoni

Chapter Two

Defining “Heroic Progress” (Śūraṃgama): The Paradox of Advancing Beyond Advancement: The Śūraṃgamasamādhi Sūtra makes an audacious claim: that the Bodhisattva attains awakening not through accumulating attainments, but through a heroic progress that is, in its deepest truth, no progress at all. This paradox goes to the heart of Mahāyāna and reveals why the samādhi described here is unlike any other. To understand the meaning of “heroic progress,” we must examine how the sutra reframes progress, courage, effort, and realization. read more

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Anutpāda

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Vajragoni

What really fine-tunes Wŏnhyo’s contribution to this series is his fine-art of balancing principles with praxis. His opening comments for the beginning of his exegesis at the beginning of this chapter pivots directly on Right Practice: read more

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