A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections On the Art of Living (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
“had been employed in the earlier vocabulary…to designate one on the way to realization but not yet arrived: a Buddha in his earlier lives, a Future Buddha. In the new vocabulary…the term was used to represent the sage who, while living in the world, has refused the boon of cessation yet achieved realization, and so remains a perfect knower in the world as a beacon, guide, and compassionate savior of all beings.106 The Bodhisattva voluntarily comes back into the world knowing that it’s a mess....
He doesn’t come back “only if it’s sweet for me.”
The Bodhisattva participates joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
”The great Mahāyāna Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara is a personification of the highest ideal of the Mahāyāna Buddhist career. His legend recounts that when, following a series of eminently virtuous incarnations, he was about to enter into the surcease of nirvāṇa, an uproar, like the sound of a general thunder, rose in all the worlds.MoreLess
He doesn’t come back “only if it’s sweet for me.”
The Bodhisattva participates joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
”The great Mahāyāna Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara is a personification of the highest ideal of the Mahāyāna Buddhist career. His legend recounts that when, following a series of eminently virtuous incarnations, he was about to enter into the surcease of nirvāṇa, an uproar, like the sound of a general thunder, rose in all the worlds.MoreLess
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