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Amor69Fati like all such stories, as Dogen says, "we are what we understand".
In David Bentley Hart's book "That All Shall Be Saved" (not so much an argument
for Universalism, more a complete destruction of all attempts to defend the revolting doctrine of eternal torment) he speaks of his early years, in his teens, being inspired by the Buddhist Bodhisattvas. He writes:-
I had even come by then to know quite a lot about the Mahayana Buddhist understanding of bodhisattvas: those fully enlightened saviours who could, if they chose, enter finally into the unconditioned bliss of Nirvana, but who have instead vowed not to do so until all other beings have been gathered in before them, and who therefore, solely out of their superabounding compassion, strive age upon age for the liberation of all from Samsara, the great sea of suffering and ignorance. They even vow to pass through and, if need be, endure the pains of all the numerous and ingeniously terrifying Buddhist hells, in pursuit of the lost. But then, in fact, in a marvellous and radiant inversion of all expectations, it turns out that such compassion is itself already the highest liberation and beatitude, and that, seen in its light, the difference between Samsara and Nirvana simply vanishes.(Mr Hart is an American Eastern Orthodox writer/theologian)
Anyway, glad you both liked the story.
