Q. Does taking the bodhisattva vow mean that they have to be reborn in one of the six realms again? Does whatever it is that is reborn have to be reborn in the six realms?
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In this podcast:
- The development of the bodhisattva - the path and the vow?
- The arhat in the remote forest and the bodhisattva in the market place
- The example of Vimalakirti - Huyakujo and the monastic rule 'A day without work is a day without food'.
- Nirvana and the escape from Samsara (6 realms), in early and later Buddhism
- Emptiness and the dangers of nihilism, empty emptiness - 'making my mind a blank'.