What Do You Do When The Life Rafts Are Burning?
A Weekend of Offerings from The Venerable Pannavati
It’s not the “outside” world that needs healing. That is merely a reflection of our own minds. Reconciliation requires an individual fearlessness to move beyond the story in order to create a new reality. The Buddha would often share stories with his closest disciples beginning with “When I was just an unenlightened Bodhisattva….”
This tells us two things:
1) we can aspire to be a bodhisattva even with whatever feelings we are experiencing right now, and
2) that we cultivate ourselves by saving others. This is our true practice. What do you do when the life rafts are burning?