self reflection

bohiruci SG

then say for example a Mahayanist practitioner is necessarily a bodhisattva if they took the bodhisattva vows right? What if he/she attains in this lifetime the same kind of liberation as an Arhat(personal liberation)? Then how can the bodhisattva come back to this cycle of rebirth to help other sentient beings ..cos earlier u said in 1 of your posts that "Once liberated, you're off the wheel of uncontrolled cycle of samsaric rebirth." ??

you sound very skeptical..so you are an academics ?

cant believe such thing as vow power and power of Faith

try chanting 100 Om Mani Padme Hum after u read my message and someone u have been wanting to meet to apologise or feel sorry for 20 years will appear the next day on the road ,on the phone...IF YOU BELIEVE :)

Aloozer SG

you sound very skeptical..so you are an academics ?

cant believe such thing as vow power and power of Faith

oooh no la i got something not clear so i ask lor.

why you sound abit angry leh?? you chant 100 times yourself maybe can help yourself?

i don't know why you say i must chant and wait for you to appear also..no link to my question at all lol. but if u got the power to do that amazing feat, go ahead. i wanna see if i can meet u on the road anot or on the phone. hehe.

An Eternal Now SG

you sound very skeptical..so you are an academics ?

cant believe such thing as vow power and power of Faith

he is just clarifying what he does not understand. This is important.

An Eternal Now SG

A mahayana practitioner who took vows but did not realise emptiness is a so called pre bhumi bodhisattva. He is still training to become a bodhisattva but is not a real bodhisattva in the sense of a truly enlightened being. Once a bodhisattva achieves liberation, he is also freed from the uncontrolled cycle of rebirth. He is no longer being dragged into the various realms by the power of his karma. The difference is that because the arhat does not have the vows of great compassion to attain full buddhahood for the sake of all other beings, and because he is no longer under the power of karma to have uncontrolled rebirth, he just enters cessation. A bodhisattva returns not by karma but by the power of his vows.

Aloozer SG

An Eternal Now SG

For a bodhisattva who achieves liberation, he stops creating karmic causes for further rebirth. Instead his actions will be pure… Aka pure karma. Why? No longer driven by attachment and the three poisons of greed hatred ignorance. Also the karmic propensity and the I Am conceit (illusion of being a self) which is the root cause of rebirth is also removed.

Weychin SG

Please correct me if I am wrong!
A Buddha is someone who attained enlightenment through his own effort, meaning in his time there is no Buddha he can learn from, otherwise he would have been called an arahant.
Maitreya Buddha will only appear when the tradition of Buddhism is extinct. Just as Shakamuni Buddha is the founder of Buddhism in our time, Maitreya Buddha will also be a founder of Buddhism . Prior to his paribbana, the Buddha is a Bodhisattva to us!

An Eternal Now SG

Thats right Smile

Weychin SG

Just for the smile, I am also going say Bodhisattva is entity with a soft spot for sentient beings!

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