Sentences with phrase «thinking bodhisattva»

Thinking Bodhisattva, Gandharan culture, Hadda region, 4th to 6th century A.D. (photo courtesy the Dallas Museum of Art)

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Buddhists and Jews take this thinking to extremes: the bodhisattva welcomes suffering as payment for karmic debt while Jews celebrate Satan for playing the role of an adversary through whom they can prove their faith.

Thus there is first of all a time of preparation for the prospective Bodhisattva, during which his disposition toward Bodhisattvahood is strengthened and he directs his thoughts toward the vow that he will one day recite.

All that's being» willfully destructed» here are the sacred cows so many of the «institutionalized» believe in... A wise woman once said: «The truth will set you free... but first, it will piss you off...» And do I think MLK, Jr. was a saint / bodhisattva?

I think that an ancient Buddhist text from the Mahayana tradition, in portraying the ideal of the bodhisattva, expresses accurately the divine sensitivity to suffering suggested by the Whiteheadian view: