Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Inner peace, city streets. What have these photos captured? That we are never alone. This brought to mind the vows of the bodhisattva. Albert Low explains the vows beautifully here,

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.’

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