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Ep. 154 – Compassion and Social Responsibility

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Bodhisattva Action Comes Out of Emptiness, of Selflessness

Bodhisattva vows are a vow to liberate all beings, to save all beings. For me anyway, the possibility of undertaking those vows rested on the understanding and the realization of emptiness, of selflessness. Compassion is the activity of emptiness. And from the other side, we also can purify our minds by putting the welfare and benefit of others before ourselves - in this way, we really diminish feeling of self-importance.

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