Becoming a Bodhisattva

Lord Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is our inspiration. He is the anchor for our faith. He is the heart of our confidence in the fact that any human, even those of us mired in samsara, have the capacity to wake up in this lifetime. It is never too late, no matter our situation. We can awaken through compassion and actually help this crazy, mixed up world with our day to day activities. Anyone can do this; we can all be bodhisattvas! This is what the buddha taught, 2500 years ago, that continues to echo down through the centuries to our own time. . . . Our situation is not necessarily all that bleak. There is much trouble in the world, and in our lives, but even though we may feel inadequate, every act of kindness we take part in, every unselfish thought, every moment of clarity, echoes down through existence just as did the acts of the buddha. They are the acts of a buddha. So keep on truckin'. Never lose faith. Wherever you go and whatever you are doing, spread the buddha virus with acts of lovingkindness to yourself and others! We are all each other's children. Many tashi deleks!