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.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Via Shambhala // EXPLORE THE BODHISATTVA VOW
EXPLORE THE BODHISATTVA VOW
Being a Bodhisattva
We invite you to join Judith Simmer-Brown for Being a Bodhisattva: Exploring the Bodhisattva Vow beginning
Saturday, November 30. This three-session course explores the moment in
a person’s life when they decide to go one step further than “being
Buddhist”—and make a profound commitment to put all others before
themselves. It is open to all who are interested in the Bodhisattva vow,
or to anyone who would like to reconnect with their original
inspiration for taking this vow.
Planting
such a seed as the bodhisattva vow undermines ego and leads to a
tremendous expansion of perspective. Such heroism, or bigness of mind,
fills all of space completely, utterly, absolutely. Within such a vast
perspective, nothing is claustrophobic and nothing is intimidating.
There is only the vast idea of unceasingly helping all sentient beings,
as limitless as space, along the path to enlightenment.
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