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The Awakening of the Bodhi Heart

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The Absolute Bodhicitta Is Beyond Change

The absolute bodhicitta is as such beyond change. But this doesn't hold good of what is known to the tradition as the relative bodHicitta. This will to enlightenment is not an active will of any individual. It's no more an act of anybody's individual will than it is anybody's individual thought. We might in fact, though here we have rather to grope forwards, think of the bod hicitta as a sort of cosmic will. In the direction of what we can only think of as universal redemption, deliberation and enlightenment ultimately of all sentient beings.

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