By Tsoknyi Rinpoche for Huffington Post, May 23, 2012

According to the Buddha and the great masters who followed in his footsteps, there are two types of bodhicitta, or awakened heart: absolute and relative. Absolute bodhicitta is a spontaneous recognition that all sentient beings, regardless of how they act or appear, are already completely free from whatever limits the patterns in their lives seemingly impose on them. A person who has attained absolute bodhicitta sees everyone, deep in their natures, as fully awakened beings and quite naturally treats them with deep respect.

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