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Y2Q1) Relating to others

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    • September 18, 2024 at 5:58 pm #2851
      Rik vanKeulen
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      Last year, the IDMT teachings were from the perspective of the path to arhatship. This year, we are looking at the path of the bodhisattva. How would you explain that ultimate fulfilment cannot be realised without relating to others?

    • September 18, 2024 at 8:17 pm #2857
      Sara Caldwell
      Participant

      It is through interacting with others that we learn generosity, morality, and patience, thereby gaining the merit needed for higher realizations. Relating with others is also like a mirror that shows us exactly what our obstacles and obscurations are. Without others, and our relationship with them, we wouldn’t progress along the path. Others are our most supreme (and demanding) teachers.

    • September 22, 2024 at 7:57 pm #2883
      Manita Roose
      Participant

      Who would we be, if there were no others?
      How well would we know ourselves if there were no others to relate to? I think we need some interaction with others to know how we function. Also it seems impossible to develop compassion without being in contact with others. People can explain to us what effects we have on them, animals can show it in their behavior of course, but can’t have a conversation about it, can’t express their needs.

    • September 27, 2024 at 9:43 am #2904
      Amrita Tsering Dolma Klop
      Participant

      As a Bodhisattva the spontaneous wish to take everyone suffering into its own body and/or to dy for (an) other(s) being(s) pain is present and the wish to give them the ultimate happiness

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