“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost reponses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart.” WorldHeartSoulWholeUniverseBreakThreatHungerTortureOur WorldBoundlessAnnihilationBodhisattva Author:Joanna Macy
“There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'” PeopleMotivationFeltBornSituationPathMovementBuddhismLifetimeStriveFinalsFeministFollowingAwakeningRelateGoddessVowCultivationFeminist MovementBodhisattvaBodhicitta Book:Path To Tranquility Source: Path To Tranquility
“You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.” KnowsLongHandsEyeTreeWindColdThousandMountainLong TimeMercyBranchesBlastVigorBendingTwigsPine TreesBodhisattva Author:Katsuki Sekida