Summary: Today's FBA Dharmabyte is lovely excerpt from the talk titled "Contemplating the Suffering of Beings" by Kulaprabha, titled "Robins, Despair, Earthquakes & Other People." This is the third of four talks exploring Vasubandhu's Four Factors given on a meditation retreat for women who have asked for ordination. In his treatise Generating Bodhi Resolve, Vasubandhu describes them as able to generate the resolve to cultivate and accumulate the bases for the Arising of the Bodhicitta. You can find out more about them in Sangharakshita's books The Meaning of Conversion in Buddhism and The Bodhisattva Ideal . Taraloka, February, 2010.
