Summary: Episode Description: In this talk, Sensei Joshin Byrnes speaks about Practice Period and The Four Great Bodhisattva Vows. Joshin asks some fundamental questions: what is it like to step into the mind of vow, and what is the process of living by vow? In order to begin answering some of these questions, he uses the Jataka Tales, a body of literature from ancient India on the previous lives of Gautama Buddha. Who was the Buddha before he was Buddha, and how did he realize Buddhahood? Joshin reminds us not to be intimidated by the infinite nature of “Big Vows,” but to instead maintain them through the lens of a “vowing mind,” as a process. He says, “We come back over and over and over again to clarify our vowing mind.”<br>
