The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas - One-Week Retreat
D4S4 - Bodhicitta's Final Steps, and Meeting Ordinary Scorn
David Oromith · 55 minutes · recorded December 2, 2024
The final meditation in this sequence combines the great resolve, the wish to free all beings, with the four immeasurables to complete bodhicitta. David turns to verse seventeen, on honouring someone who looks down on us out of arrogance rather than compete for status, and takes questions on where this shades into self-deprecation, whether the bodhisattva vow sounds egotistical, and where limited time is best spent, closing with the girl and the starfish: your bit is worth doing however small.
Anxiety and fear The bodhisattva path Bodhicitta practice Compassion (karuna) The four immeasurables The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas