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Dogen's Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings - Part 5 - Identity Action
Episode 120
Published 6 years, 8 months ago
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I finish up our study of Zen master Dogen's essay "Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings" with a discussion of "identity action," or "being in the same boat" with living beings. Even if you're not a big fan of Zen texts, or of Dogen, I hope you'll listen; this episode is on the importance of a bodhisattva – the importance of any of us – making a practice of seeing ourselves as "being in the same boat" with other beings. Can you imagine how different our societies would be if we all tried to do this?