Bodhisattva Vow #awakening #zenbuddhism

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Some people aren't comfortable taking the vow, others are. The Bodhisattva vow is really it's taking a vow to help liberate all beings. And one of the secrets of the Bodhisattva is that all beings are already liberated.

[00:00:14]If they weren't liberated, then it wouldn't be possible for liberation to happen. That would mean it it's that we are we are absent, we don't have liberation, and we get it from somewhere. And that's completely false.

[00:00:27]It's always completely available to us in every moment. And so that's why the Bodhisattva vow sounds very impressive, you know, vow to liberate all beings, but in fact, they're already liberated, but they don't know it.

[00:00:41]So that's the support the Bodhisattva affords is through action, through words, is pointing out continuously, this is available. And ideally, the Prajnaparamita is functioning to point out to people, this is available for you right now.