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This is a huge commitment to live by. Having promised to live our lives in a framework dedicated to the welfare of others, how can we turn our backs on helpless sentient beings? | This is a huge commitment to live by. Having promised to live our lives in a framework dedicated to the welfare of others, how can we turn our backs on helpless sentient beings? | ||
Śāntideva warns us that the worst of all downfalls is to lose the mind of bodhicitta. We must make good on our promise to follow this altruistic path or we will be derided by gods and men, and in the future we will fall into the terrible suffering of the lower states of existence. | Śāntideva warns us that the worst of all downfalls is to lose the mind of bodhicitta. We must make good on our promise to follow this altruistic path, or we will be derided by gods and men, and in the future we will fall into the terrible suffering of the lower states of existence. | ||
In ''The Questions of Sāgaramati'' (Skt. ''Sāgaramatiparipṛcchāsūtra''), Buddha Śākyamuni, addressing the celestial bodhisattva Sāgaramati, illustrates how grave this downfall is. | In ''The Questions of Sāgaramati'' (Skt. ''Sāgaramatiparipṛcchāsūtra''), Buddha Śākyamuni, addressing the celestial bodhisattva Sāgaramati, illustrates how grave this downfall is. | ||
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