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The bodhisattva vow

the bodhisattva vow
nature
The Mahāyāna's great turn: instead of the arhat's liberation from the round, the vow to postpone your own freedom until every being is free. Beings are numberless, I vow to save them all — a promise that cannot be kept and is made anyway, and the making of it is the practice.

The pack's closest approach to the Tree in shape while being furthest in premise: both traditions conclude that there is no private salvation.
rhymes with
sephirahchesed
whyChesed, unbounded giving — beside the tzaddik who descends to raise others and the Ari's doctrine that your own tikkun cannot finish alone. Buddhism gets there because there is no self to save privately; Kabbalah because every self is wired to every other.
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bodhisattva · vow · mahayana · bodhicitta
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