{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a3fdb030ad32116864f4a75/6a3feb4189bd872840291e13?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Mahayana - Part 2: A new vision of compassion, emptiness, and awakening","description":"Imagine a path where the goal is not personal escape, but a vow to return again and again—until every being is free from suffering. In Mahayana, this is the path of the bodhisattva, and it changes everything.\r\n\r\nThe bodhisattva ideal stands at the heart of Mahayana self-understanding. Here, spiritual life is more than individual liberation. Instead, adherents emphasize an ethical and compassionate commitment: to postpone final awakening, or nirvana, in order to help all sentient beings reach enlightenment. This is not just a moral stance; it is a transformation of classical Buddhist goals. The bodhisattva, motivated by great compassion—karuna—and guided by wisdom, especially insight into emptiness, or shunyata, sets out on a journey that is as much about others as about oneself.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thecreedarchive.com/creed/mahayana-buddhism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}