“Going About Life” (√car)
With regard to the immanence of the transcendent state of wisdom, it is telling that the Eight Thousand recommends bodhisattvas to “go about life in this transcendent state of wisdom.” Although some alternate translations of the Sanskrit verb √car take it to suggest that bodhisattvas should “practice this transcendent state of wisdom,” the English verb “to practice”—whether taken in the sense of practicing the piano or practicing medicine—wrongly implies that some mental effort or special focus or activity is always required to exercise the transcendent state of wisdom.52
In fact, that bodhisattvas should “go about life” means that they should do whatever they do in life (i.e., sit, walk, eat, sleep, and so on) “in this transcendent state of wisdom.”53