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Tag Archives: Bodhisattva
Carriers of the Seed
An excellent composite study of Bodhicitta as well as all things Bodhisattva is The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature, by Har Dayal circa 1932. For myself it has become the bible regarding such subject matter. What I treasure most … Continue reading
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Tagged Arhat, Bodhi, Bodhisattva, Har Dayal, Pratyekabuddhas, sattva
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Is a Bodhisattva dependent on sentient beings?
Continuing with Dorji Wangchuk’s study, he writes: In Mahayana, the entire concept of bodhicitta and bodhisattva would collapse or make no sense without sattvas, for a bodhisattva is, in the first place, a sattva whose citta is directed towards attaining … Continue reading
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Tagged Bodhisattva, Diamond Sutra, Light Warrior
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Faith and enlightenment in Zen
All born things are subject to entropy. Nothing created can ever escape the critical point of its own decay and final dissolution. This axiom is not only valid for all things around you and within your body,but also your ideas, … Continue reading
Posted in Tozen Teaching, Zen
Tagged bodhicitta, Bodhisattva, Buddha Nature, dharmakaya, Mind, Spirit, Tozen, Unborn
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Know your true nature
As an inexhaustible producer of form and emptiness, the great Mind Essence remains permanently imageless. As long as certainty and the true nature of this Mind is not assured, ignorance reigns, death is certain and the painful womb of rebirth, into most uncertain … Continue reading
The light of compassion
A mind of great honor, moderation and intelligence is not necessarily a mind of foolish shortsightedness, nor is it one poor in compassion and humor. The immense complexity of the created, demands such qualities. Yet, if these native excellences were to … Continue reading
Posted in Tozen Teaching
Tagged Bodhisattva, Dharma, dharmakaya, light, Mind, Tozen, Unborn
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Finding [recollecting] the Unborn Mind.
Abiding in the blinding darkness of ignorance is not easy. If anything, countless sentients, suffering on a daily basis no matter their status in a grinding maze of discontentment can attest to this fact. If not in their best hour, … Continue reading
Posted in Tozen Teaching
Tagged Bodhisattva, Buddha Nature, dharmakaya, Mind, Tozen, Unborn, Wisdom, Zen
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Being of a Single Mind – One-pointedness (Zen) is attained
Let not the appearance of these words fool you, yet do not wander off from the context at hand. Being One in Spirit (will) and of One Mind is to be of a Single Mind in a here and now … Continue reading
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Tagged Bodhisattva, Buddha, Dharma, light, One Mind, one-pointedness, single Mind, Tozen
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Emptiness on a Thursday Afternoon
Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra 46. Mañjuśrī Teaches Prajñāpāramitā Translated from Taishō Tripiṭaka volume 11, number 310 Thus have I heard. At one time, the Buddha was in Śrāvastī, at the Jeta Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍada’s park, along with a great saṃgha of bhikṣus, … Continue reading
Posted in Mañjuśrī Teaches Prajñāpāramitā
Tagged Bhagavān, bhiksus, Bodhisattva, Dharma, Emptiness, Manjusri, prajnaparamita, Right Contemplation, saṃgha, Śāriputra, sunyata
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Valhalla for a Bodhisattva
The inner-landscape changed dramatically for Schäfer as he found himself flying on a wind-mandala high above the majestic setting of a Tibetan cordillera. The mandala’s semi-circular shape seemed to curve in and out of the ever expanding vista until it … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Snodgrass, Bodhisattva, Green Tara, Stupa, Symbolism of the Stupa, Tara, Tara verte, The Cave, Viśvavajra
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The Universal Gateway of the Bodhisattva Who Hears the Cries of the Poor
Those reading this title from Chapter 25 from translations that don’t utilize the sanskrit might not realize this refers to non-other than our own beloved Avalokiteśvara. This entire chapter is in honor of the Greatest (in our own saha-realm) Bodhisattva … Continue reading
Posted in The Lotus Sutra
Tagged Avalokiteśvara, Bodhisattva, Kannon, Kuan Yin, Kwan Um, suffering, Universal Gateway
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