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The Bodhisattva and the Arhat: Walking Together Hand-in-Hand

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Universal Values and Morality

The traditional understanding is that one can follow either the path of the arhat or the way of the bodhisattva. But one cannot support both. A practitioner on the arhat path learns and follows the Buddha’s teachings to liberate him or herself, ideally in this lifetime. A practitioner on the bodhisattva path aims to become, in some future lifetime, a Buddha, i.e. someone who in one’s final rebirth discovers the way of liberation for oneself and makes it available to the world at a time when Buddhist teachings are not known. According to this divided schema, one can either be motivated to attain liberation for oneself, or one can be driven by compassion to help others become liberated...

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