https://www.susanbmagee.com/bodhisattva-prayer-humanity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bodhisattva-prayer-humanity Author and Modern Mystic Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:29:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.susanbmagee.com/bodhisattva-prayer-humanity/#comment-158 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:29:15 +0000 https://www.susanbmagee.com/?p=1218#comment-158 Thank you Susan for posting this powerful prayer. I came across it a couple of years ago and am so glad you reminded me of it. I believe we really need to circulate this and other similar prayers in these trying and difficult times to build a blanket of hope and resolution.
This is a description of this prayer I found years ago, I find the explanation very powerful and “a call to arms”!
“The vow of the Bodhisattva is that she will not go into Nirvana until every single suffering being has entered Nirvana. One has to understand what this means. Our awakening is not a personal triumph. We do not have to win a spiritual sprint. We are one mind. Awakening is to penetrate more and more deeply into this truth. The world is alive. And as long as there is suffering then this living whole is shattered. Whether it is my suffering or the suffering of another, when seen from the perspective of the Bodhisattva makes no difference, because, seen from this perspective there is no ‘me’ or ‘another.’ In the Diamond Sutra, “Although the Bodhisattva saves all sentient beings, there are no sentient beings to save.”
Also, thank you for your meditation guidance at the National Cathedral on April 2 and for your workshop last September Conversations with Our Souls.

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