Module 7: The Bodhisattva Path I: Bodhicitta & The Six Paramitas · The Buddha’s Path
Session 2 - Exploring Bodhicitta
David Oromith · 80 minutes · recorded February 1, 2025
A guided practice weaves the four immeasurables, loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity, extended in turn to oneself, a loved one, a stranger and an enemy. David explains how these four give rise to great compassion and then bodhicitta, and reads passages from the Dalai Lama on its benefits for health, relationships and facing an enemy without anger. Questions cover holding all beings in mind by caring for everyone we actually meet. A short closing meditation follows.
Due to a recording error, the discussion could not be included in the video, however, the discussion is included in the transcript below.
Anger and aversion Ethics and precepts Relationships and family The bodhisattva path The four noble truths Bodhicitta practice Compassion (karuna) Empathetic joy (mudita) Equanimity Loving kindness (metta) The four immeasurables