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The Zen Studies Podcast

115 - Dogen's Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings - Part 4 - Beneficial Action

30 min • 6 oktober 2019

In this episode I continue our study of 13th-century Zen master Dogen’s essay, “Bodaisatta Shishobo,” or what I’m calling the “Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings.” I cover "beneficial action," which means to use skillful means to benefit beings without discriminating among them, considering their near and distant future, and to do so selflessly.

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