We
don't need to wait until we are enlightened before we act in the world,
and we don't need to withdraw from the world to become enlightened.
Conscious social action can be our own work on ourselves that becomes
the vehicle for our awakening.
A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Via Daily Dharma / For All Sentient Beings
Without
bodhicitta, there can be no enlightenment. And all of us—no matter who
we are and what we have done—hold this seed of bodhicitta within
ourselves.
—The 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, "No Easy Answers"
—The 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, "No Easy Answers"
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