Many of you have heard about bodhisattvas, perhaps from visiting the Asian Art Museum or from pop songs. The idea of being one of these compassionate heroes probably sounds like a good thing to you, but the question is how do we become that? How do we get from being an ordinary person to being a bodhisattva?
Being a bodhisattva is contingent upon developing a certain attitude, called bodhichitta (literally ‘awakening mind'). Bodhichitta is the attitude of wanting to be a buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings. It becomes the driving force behind all our Dharma practice, in the Mahayana tradition.
This Discovering Buddhism course is about how to develop bodhichitta and how to act like a bodhisattva.
Topics covered include:
the importance of bodhichitta in our lives and in our Dharma practice
the step-by-step method for developing this bodhisattva attitude, which is based on compassion
bodhisattva vows – how to take them and how to keep them
the conduct of a bodhisattva – how to act like a bodhisattva
Each module of Discovering Buddhism includes an experiential element in the form of a Saturday practice day or a weekend retreat. [More details to come.]
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Being a bodhisattva is contingent upon developing a certain attitude, called bodhichitta (literally ‘awakening mind'). Bodhichitta is the attitude of wanting to be a buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings. It becomes the driving force behind all our Dharma practice, in the Mahayana tradition.
This Discovering Buddhism course is about how to develop bodhichitta and how to act like a bodhisattva.
Topics covered include:
the importance of bodhichitta in our lives and in our Dharma practice
the step-by-step method for developing this bodhisattva attitude, which is based on compassion
bodhisattva vows – how to take them and how to keep them
the conduct of a bodhisattva – how to act like a bodhisattva
Each module of Discovering Buddhism includes an experiential element in the form of a Saturday practice day or a weekend retreat. [More details to come.]
Many of you have heard about bodhisattvas, perhaps from visiting the Asian Art Museum or from pop songs. The idea of being one of these compassionate heroes probably sounds like a good thing to you, but the question is how do we become that? How do we get from being an ordinary person to being a bodhisattva?
Being a bodhisattva is contingent upon developing a certain attitude, called bodhichitta (literally ‘awakening mind'). Bodhichitta is the attitude of wanting to be a buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings. It becomes the driving force behind all our Dharma practice, in the Mahayana tradition.
This Discovering Buddhism course is about how to develop bodhichitta and how to act like a bodhisattva.
Topics covered include:
the importance of bodhichitta in our lives and in our Dharma practice
the step-by-step method for developing this bodhisattva attitude, which is based on compassion
bodhisattva vows – how to take them and how to keep them
the conduct of a bodhisattva – how to act like a bodhisattva
Each module of Discovering Buddhism includes an experiential element in the form of a Saturday practice day or a weekend retreat. [More details to come.]
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Being a bodhisattva is contingent upon developing a certain attitude, called bodhichitta (literally ‘awakening mind'). Bodhichitta is the attitude of wanting to be a buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings. It becomes the driving force behind all our Dharma practice, in the Mahayana tradition.
This Discovering Buddhism course is about how to develop bodhichitta and how to act like a bodhisattva.
Topics covered include:
the importance of bodhichitta in our lives and in our Dharma practice
the step-by-step method for developing this bodhisattva attitude, which is based on compassion
bodhisattva vows – how to take them and how to keep them
the conduct of a bodhisattva – how to act like a bodhisattva
Each module of Discovering Buddhism includes an experiential element in the form of a Saturday practice day or a weekend retreat. [More details to come.]
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