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Posted in Compassion, The Bodhisattva Ideal on Sep 20th, 2008
Pema Chodron’s No Time To Lose, A Timely Guide To The Way of The Bodhisattva. From her introduction: “I regard this text as an instruction manual for extending ourselves to others, a guidebook for compassionate action. We can read it to free ourselves from crippling habits and confusion. We can read it to encourage our [...]
Posted in Compassion, The Bodhisattva Ideal on Sep 20th, 2008
from Pema Chodron’s book No Time To Lose, A Timely Guide to The Way of The Bodhisattva, bodhicitta “is often translated as ‘awakened heart,’ and refers to an intense desire to alleviate suffering… We start close to home with the wish to help those we know and love, but the underlying inspiration is global and [...]
Posted in Compassion, The Bodhisattva Ideal on Sep 20th, 2008
“For all those ailing in the world,
Until their every sickness has been healed,
May I myself become for them
The doctor, nurse, medicine itself.”
from Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva (The Bodhicaryavatara), ch. 3, v. 8