Module 10: Engaged Buddhism · The Buddha’s Path
Being of Benefit: Aspiring Bodhisattvas in a Complex World (Part One)
David Oromith · 81 minutes · recorded May 1, 2025
The first of two sessions opens with a twenty minute guided meditation from Lama Rod Owens in which we attend to sensations of earth, air, water and fire in the body before extending that awareness to the natural world. David sets out the bodhisattva's aspiration to benefit all beings, drawing on the Buddha's own example and the Dalai Lama's idea of universal responsibility. Questions range across grief at ecological crisis to a member's own difficult family situation.
Anger and aversion Ecology and the climate Grief and loss Nature and the outdoors The bodhisattva path Compassion (karuna)