AtD, 839...(St.) Cyprian, Bodhisattva

[Mark Kohut]

As Robin's been sayin':
   
  839 "No question of desire....he had not even been imagining desire, its arousal, its fulfillment, any occasion for it": Wikipedia on Bodhisattva: "According to one sutra, the Buddha, after his supreme enlightenment, was reluctant to teach others because he thought mankind had too much dust in the eyes and were too obsessed with desires, and did not consider abandoning desires"....
   
  Cyprian becomes care-givingly maternal, a compassionate boddhisattva-like role: again Wikipedia on Bodhisattva: "Tibetan doctrine (like Theravada, for different reasons) recognizes only the first of these, holding that Buddhas remain in the world for ever, in some sense, able to help others, so there is no point in delay. East Asian doctrinal traditions tend to emphasize the second and/or third, the idea of deliberately refraining from becoming a Buddha, perhaps for ever."
   
  Misc. (trivia) St. Cyprian's was the prep school Orwell went to.


       
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