Evolutionary Enlightenment Podcast
This series of EnlightenNext Evolutionary Enlightenment podcasts is created from edited recordings of weekly conference calls. Evolutionary Enlightenment, an original teaching founded by Andrew Cohen, provides a philosophical framework for understanding humanity’s role in the vast forward march of evolution. It is also a system of personal and cultural development, rooted in the profound revelation of spiritual enlightenment that has fueled Andrew Cohen’s work for the past twenty years. Each week’s episode focuses on one of the fundamental aspects of Evolutionary Enlightenment, exploring topics that include meditation, authentic leadership, enlightened activism, soul development, and the evolution of consciousness.
Evolutionary Enlightenment and Key Mahayana Buddhist Teachings: Part 1, The Bodhisattva Vow
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On this week's webcast, Elizabeth Debold and Jeff Carreira launch a three-part series exploring parallels between certain key concepts of Mahayana Buddhism and updated evolutionary forms of these concepts in the teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment. The Mahayana Buddhist tradition deemphasizes the liberation, or enlightenment, of the individual, instead giving greater weight to the individual's cultivation of their own desire to assist in the liberation of all other sentient beings. Taking on this sacred mission of universal liberation is what it means to take the bodhisattva vow. They explore how Andrew Cohen's Evolutionary Enlightenment teaching provides a new way to understand the bodhisattva vow by placing it in an evolutionary context.
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