jewel123 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 10:17 am
Thank you once again. I wrote once a post about being deeply dissatisfied with my work in the conservation of wildlife animals. I am thinking that maybe I don't have enough Bodhichitta to continue this work and be content. But if I don't do this work then I will be breaking samayas of love and kindness to animal beings and some human beings too?
What specifically did you find dissatisfying!
You’re allowed to feel like a place isn’t a good fit for you, or that you’d be better off somewhere else.
Helping sentiments beings on a relative is very very important, we should really do that. That being said, the best way to help all sentient beings (wildlife and everyone) is to become fully enlightened, so that you will have the capabilities to help beings and the omniscient wisdom to know precisely what they need for full liberation!
Do you can on a relative level, and definitely meditate on the four immeasurables and on tonglen and lojong; and then anything you CAN’T do …maintain your practice so that you can become a fully enlightened Buddha and do all of those things!
"Death's second name is 'omnipresent.' On the relative truth it seems we become separate. But on the absolute there is no separation." Lama Dawa