When we stand at a fork in the road—which way to take? Here is our bodhisattva-mind. Which is better? Which way should we go? This “I” is not possible to explain, but anyway, we are always at a crossing or at a fork in the road, and we don’t know what to do. As long as we have our true nature, when we are conscientious enough, we sometimes wonder which way to take. That is a bodhisattva’s way.
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