YGWV
nils_w wrote:
> <mailto:WorldofGlorantha%40yahoogroups.com>, Greg <Greg_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > I still think that a fully enlightened being would not reincarnate.
> > Unless, of course, one is a bodhisattva.
> > However, the bodhisattva idea always seemed a little strange to me. In
> > such a person who is entirely enlightened does NOT transcend, in order
> > to bring enlightenment to the rest of the suffering world. This is seen
> > as an act of great compassion.
> > But compassion, as much as anger or desire, is an emotion that one
> ought
> > to have transcended.
> > Thus a bodhisattva is a "failed mystic" as much as Sheng Seleris is.
> The
> > only difference is that Sheng does it for selfish reasons, and a
> > bodhisattva for selfless ones. But both fail to transcend...
>
> Kevin already answered this very well.
Yes, indeed.
> I don't know if this is a
> false rationalization, but I always thought that the main reason
> for the bodhisattva to delay transcendence is that one person's
> liberation doesn't matter in the larger picture.
Although there is no "larger picture" really.
> True liberation
> occurs first when everyone has transcended.
There is no "everyone."
Well, enough of that. I'm just glad it is not a real personal problem,
just a game delimma for me.
> Also, does the bodhisattva really fail, or just postpone transcendece?
Matter of definition, I think.
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Greg Stafford
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