Are you seeking enlightenment, or do you prefer to act and react only in human form? Are you growing into being a Bodhisattva or are you stuck in unhappiness?
A Bodhisattva is one who is on the path to awakening or one who has awakened. Quan Yin, the Buddha, Jesus, the Creator, Muhammad, and others are Bodhisattvas. Many, such as Quan Yin, have chosen to stay in Earth’s energy to support the rest of us for mutual enlightenment.
Following are the traits of the ones who are seeking enlightenment followed by the destructive traits.
The 10 qualities for the Bodhisattva that lead to enlightenment are:
- Generosity
- Virtue
- Renunciation
- Patience
- Energy
- Resolve
- Loving-kindness
- Truthfulness
- Wisdom
- Equanimity
Cicero said, “Self-centeredness fuels destructive actions.” Here is Cicero’s list of destructive actions.
- The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others.
- The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
- Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
- Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
- Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
- Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
What traits we chose will lead us to enlightenment or to the destruction of any true happiness in our lives. The choice is ours to make. We do so with our every thought and action.