What is Conventional bodhichitta?

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Meditation and the Spiritual path - idea # 141
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Bliss and Openness pt. 22
What is Conventional bodhichitta?



Happy Gratitude-Monday!


We return to the classic passage:

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

Conventional Bodhichitta is all about compassion and love,
which are really two sides of the same coin. Compassion is
the choice to take-away another’s sufferings {in the most
wonderful way}. Love is the decision to lavish another with blessings {in the
most wonderful way}.

Why do I keep redundantly repeating the phrase, “in the most
wonderful way”?

Because in every religion, on every continent there are only
two kinds of teachers:
• Love-givers
• and Fear-mongers.

Who could be a great example of a Love-giver: Saint Francis
Assisi. On the other hand, who could be a great example of a
Fear-monger; Torquemada of the Spanish Inquisition… not one
of your more lovable fellows.

Over the centuries the Torquemadas of the world have worked to
convince us that if we take-away another’s sufferings we could
be cheating them of the opportunity to “work out their own
karma.” Who taught that? Certainly not Avalokiteshvara!

The Torquemadas have also argued that if we are too giving or
even long to be too giving it could harm or “spoil” others. And yet, you’ll never hear Kuan Yin teach that.

Hey, could you remember reading “The Monkey’s Paw” in Junior
High School? In this creepy tail by Edgar Allan Poe, every wish
made over a magical amulet came true, but in a consistently,
twisted and tragic manner.

Like wise, the Fear-mongers of this world have convinced us that
if our compassion or love is unbridled, then only harm can come
from it. But guess what kids… Buddha NEVER taught that.

And that is why I persist in using the phrase “…in the most wonderful way.”

How else could we have been insidiously infected by the
frightening lies of the Torquemadas? We’ll explore that tomorrow.



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