A Gift of Liberation 37: The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life (2021, Arizona) Selected Meditations

Developing Bodhicitta is a set of meditations that uses beautiful and uplifting imagery to help the practitioner understand and internalize the power of bodhicitta—the wish to become enlightened for the benefit of all beings. Through various contemplations such as joining a spiritual team, graduating, being welcomed, offering protection, and spreading light, the meditator absorbs the feeling of belonging to a vast family of compassionate beings. Each visualization builds confidence that anyone, no matter their imperfections, can step onto the bodhisattva path and take on a new and meaningful identity rooted in love. These practices also expand the imagination outward and guide the mind to care for countless beings across countless worlds, which plants the seeds of universal responsibility. Together, these sessions train the heart to recognize its own limitless potential and to radiate goodness into every part of our daily lives.