The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance, Part 2: Beneficial Action and Identity Action

with NORMAN FISCHER
4 sessions • 26 min

Continue exploring Dogen’s four methods of guidance by diving deep into the final two practices—beneficial action (skillfully benefiting all beings in their immediate and long-term wellbeing, helping friend and enemy equally, recognizing that helping others inherently helps yourself in this act of oneness) and identity action (entering fully into others’ situations with no gap or difference, becoming that person without filtering through your own perspective, like the Buddha becoming human to deal with human troubles or a daughter falling down in grass to help her fallen father)—discovering how these universal bodhisattva practices of action in the world create harmonious life with others.