What is Bodhichitta?

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Meditation and the Spiritual path - idea # 139
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Bliss and Openness pt. 21
What is Bodhichitta?



Happy Compassion-Thursday!

Again, we read from the passage:

“…one Dhar-ma, Bo-dhi-chit-ta, embodies all practices
of the development and completion stages...”

The four syllable word, “Bo-dhi-chit-ta” is more than just a good
answer in Scrabble. It is also a Sanskrit word that could be
translated as “the Mind-set of Enlightenment.” But that’s vague,
isn’t it? Perhaps we should put a finer point on it?

This is where it gets fun. You see in Buddhism we tend to look at
things from two perspectives, the Conventional and the Ultimate. Is
one perspective better then the other? Nope! It’s just like the
phrase, “on one hand it’s this way but on the other hand it’s that
way.”

I don’t know if you’re like me. But I’m right handed. And you know,
if an angry Ninja ran up to me and whacked off my left arm; I sure
would miss it. And by the way, I strongly feel that whacking off
peoples limbs is very impolite and should be avoided.

Even though I tend to favor my right hand, I sure am glad I have
two. After all it makes it much easier to eat a ripe, juicy papaya,
if you’ve got one hand to hold the fruit and another to work the
spoon. Likewise, Buddha taught us to explore reality from both the
conventional and the ultimate perspectives.

Well then, what is Conventional Bodhichitta? We’ll explore that on
Monday. Why not tomorrow? Because tomorrow is the big release of
February’s instructional CD. It’s a special CD for a reduced price,
but only for one month.

If you’ve ever felt an emotion, that you didn’t want to feel;
if you’ve ever wanted to change how you felt, quickly,
then you’ll want to read tomorrow’s announcement.



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