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I don't understand bodhicitta
Bodhicitta quite simply means to see things like the Buddha would have seen them.
In the basic sense, it means to be extremely empathetic and sensitive to suffering experienced by other beings. This ...
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I don't understand bodhicitta
This is not an answer but just a note to the question....
As per my understanding so far, unless and until one realizes that everything boils down to person's own dukkha, one won't be able to free.
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I don't understand bodhicitta
So what is the real scope of bodhicitta
It is actually a multilayered concept.
Firstly (for Mahayana) generating (what I know as) Aspiring Bodhicitta (which is a general wish to be free from samsara ...
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