Developing Bodhichitta – The Spirit of Enlightenment: Tibet’s Wish Granting Jewel Tree – Ep. 306
Bob Thurman Podcast: Buddhas Have More Fun!
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The Spirit of Enlightenment Is Not Just Sensational
A perfect Buddha feels themselves as all the other beings, every bit as much as feeling within their own particular skin of any particular emanation that they have. They can be many beings simultaneously and still feel themselves the other beings that are not them. The spirit of enlightenment has two forms: One is called the aspiring spirit that is a wish, that is an aspiration, that is a will. And even now we can even have that if we think it's possible. We actually take the vow, I will become a Buddha for the sake of all beings. To establish them in happiness and to provide them with the causes of happiness. But you can't mean that because you don't believe it's
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