Sentence examples for skillful means from inspiring English sources

Weiner cited the Buddhist term upaya — skillful means.

Crucial to the Mahayana salvific vision is the doctrine of skillful means (upaya).

On the other hand, anyone who's seen it will want to celebrate the exceedingly skillful means by which Mr. Margulies, the author of "Sight Unseen" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dinner With Friends," arrives at his revelations.

Skillful means thus embodies wisdom in concrete phenomenal activity.

In this respect, the mandala emphasizes the non-duality between wisdom (hannya) and skillful means.

The criterion is still the same: all things can be used as "skillful means" to lead to Buddhahood.

They include swords, gems, lotus, vajra, etc., as each signifying a specific improvisation of a skillful mean to enlighten the unenlightened.

Still, this is Moore's most powerful movie — the largest in scope, the most resourceful and skillful in means — and the best things in it have little to do with his usual ideological take on American power and George Bush.

But the question is whether or not her plays will be judged as more skillful than mean and more of what Texans want in a new governor.

This historical Buddha guides ordinary, ignorant, and irreligious people towards the Dharma, but for this sake must improvise skillful (or: expedient) means (Skrt: upâya; Jpn: hôben) appropriate to the time, place, and comprehension of a given audience.

Indeed, Iranian shrewdness means skillful analysis of the American political scene, but also, to the same extent, the art of patience - until the bargain has matured and until all means have been utilized to bring it to fruition or to sabotage it.