The Perfections (Paramitas)

"Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness."
― Rajneesh

To continue with our examination of the Path of the Bodhisattva, it is good for us to refresh our understanding of what a Bodhisattva is. The term is Sanskrit. Bodhi means "awakened," "awakening" or "wisdom." Sattva is "the essence of" or "a vehicle for."

So in synthesis we say that a Bodhisattva is "a vehicle of wisdom," or "the essence of wisdom." When we relate these teachings to the Tree of Life (also known as the Kabbalah) we know that wisdom in Hebrew is "Chokmah" (which is the second sphere on the Tree of Life). And so a Bodhisattva, properly speaking, is a vehicle of that light.

A vehicle is a kind of technology, or a mechanism, a means to transmit something, to transport, to carry. The Bodhisattva ideal is expressed in the selfless intention to carry beings to liberation, to be a vehicle for the wisdom, the Bodhi, which liberates the consciousness from suffering. As such, the Bodhisattva is merely an intercessor.

This becomes particularly vibrant the more you comprehend the true nature of our inner self. In Gnosis, we always study the teachings from the point of view of the Absolute: the Emptiness (the Ain, the Ain Soph, the Ain Soph Aur), the vast Absolute Abstract Space, which is an eternal Nothingness, but is Something.

It is Uncreated Light. In its very essence it is the nature of self, but it is not self. It is the essence of Being, but it is not Being. When a Bodhisattva becomes perfected, the Bodhisattva becomes a vehicle of That.

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