Episode 16: Uncertainty as the Bodhisattva’s Healing Balm
Today, Roshi Allison Atwill explores the bodhisattva’s unique relationship with uncertainty as a healing balm for suffering.
Describing how Zen Buddhism draws from the Mahayana tradition, in which the bodhisattva path means helping to awaken all beings, Atwill notes that this is not a future goal to somehow be achieved but a moment-to-moment way of meeting every aspect of our own lives with sincere openness.
Your awakening has no recipe, she says. It’s uniquely yours to discover as everything you’ve taken as a given falls away.
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You can’t get paint-by-numbers for a painting that doesn’t exist. And it is the same for your awakening.
— Allison Atwill
Show notes:
- How does Zen Buddhism draw from Mahayana Buddhism
- What does the bodhisattva path mean
- How to listen with your eyes
- What is the distinction between poetry and eloquence
- How does the bodhisattva use uncertainty as a healing balm
It is marvelous the way our lives are tangled in and threaded through with impossible situations of uncertainty about our longings, our passions, and our versions—and what we think we need to be happy.
— Allison Atwill
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You are also the bodhisattva to yourself.
— Allison Atwill