Interconnectedness by Ajahn Brahm
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I wish for those people that they will experience goodness in their own life so that they can recognize it.
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@Satori1800 people often do evil things because of ignorance, ailments and powerful circumstances. A lot of evil people can't feel empathy and other normal emotions and use violence and cruelty to fill a void and or because they have deep seated rage.
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You ar the man to go with!
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Yes monk I love you!
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Too bad I don't live in West Australia but Germany.
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@MrMbodhi I was referring to 'Bhumis' which are a way of equating Bodhisattvas along the lines of Sottapanna to Arhatship.
I think these delineations are generally given in clarification to specific questions and not intended to be used as instructions on how to engage in meditation or the like.
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@yadsik and @genericusername337 How would you even know someone has attained enlightenment? And does it really matter? It is not based on having any particular meditation experience, no matter how profound. As Ajahn Chah described them, meditative states are not important in themselves. Meditation is a way to quiet the mind so you can practice all day long wherever you are; see when there is grasping or aversion, clinging or suffering; and then let it go. What’s left is enlightenment.
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@genericusername337 Bodhisattvas all haven't attained enlightenment, but by the 6th level (of 11) they have.
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@yadsik wouldn't you call them simple buddhists? a boddhisattva is someone who's already achieved enlightenment - very rare, even for monks - and then chooses at his/her deathbed to be reincarnated anyway for the sake of helping the rest of humanity.
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@genericusername337 Of course, anyone with a goal of Buddhahood is a Bodhisattva.
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I simply can't believe some people would say that this man is evil. He, like any other monks I've met, are some of the most peaceful people I have ever seen.
vilxan 4 years ago 31
Wow, we need more Bodhisattvas like him.
yadsik 4 years ago 20