This story of a ”rich man” named Vimalakirti tells of many attributes, some Buddhist and some Samsaric, that the students of the day would consider highly praise-worthy of the Bodhisattva way. However, as Burton Watson‘s translations are always canted toward religious and Christian rhetoric, it is difficult to separate his own cultural admirations from the descriptions of Vimalakirti. As the story continues to develop, we will see the expedient means toward understanding the Dharma.

How is it that each of us experience the world differently? Even siblings define the same ”exact” things in different ways. This difference is constructed of our own mind, our unique pathways of distinctions.

Our experience of life is deeply colored by our mind of perception; our identification and attachments created by delusions of desires. To detach perceptions from those delusions of self and ego, we become awakened to an entirely amazing perception of the wonders of the world, previously disguised by stress and anxiety.

Cultivating the mind of Buddha in a community rather than solipsistic practice is the Boddhisattva path to complete and perfect enlightenment.

To go beyond the learnings of the Arahant and challenge one‘s Samsaric life to live as a Bodhisattva, walking the Buddha Way as influence and facilitator to all others for attainment of the Buddha Mind.

An early Mahayana text on non-duality, and the nature of the mind, discussed for the extended dharma to progress arahants and bodhisattvas in the developing of Mahayana concepts.

To course in the perfection of Wisdom is to achieve a life-state of unstressed and equanimity.

To course in the Perfect Wisdom; a Bodhisattva, enlightened beyond awakening to immerse oneself in Samsara as inspiration and guide to others‘ liberation; to the Buddha Way, the Perfection of Wisdom.

We exist in all these realms; all of time. Are you in the rapids or are you observing them?

To navigate the sea of Samsara by detaching but not obliterating all tendencies and conditions (suchnesses), developing compassion without immersion.