I may have found the true, demystified bodhisattva's path by chance.

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I may have found the true, demystified bodhisattva's path by chance.

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There's a very old sutta suggesting the bodhisattva's path may be shorter and better than the one proposed by the Theravada-Mahayana tradition.

There's absolutely no mention of a "prophecy required to be made by another Buddha", nor there seems to be any dreams of images and statues dreamt by young boys. It doesn't even mention the ten perfections.

According to the sutta, the most important course of such path might lie through loving-kindness development.

Future Buddhas out there may want to shorten their search for the truth and read John Ireland's english translation on Sutta Central.

The logic proposed by the "old pali sutta" I'm reffering to seems to develop itself as follows: by performing certain meritorious deeds for seven years, the bodhisattva can not only experience the upper heavenly worlds over time but in due course acquire the thirty-two distinctive aspects of a world conqueror. By repeatedly obtaining these marks and having acts of loving-kindness as a sort of "basis" for everything else, he can eventually become a buddha. Also, it seems he performs seven years of loving-kindness/seven cosmic expansions of bliss before searching for the famous marks that lead to both kingship and buddhahood.

Search the internet for "Itivuttaka: The Buddha’s Sayings - The Section of the Ones - 22. Meritorious Deeds".

Relevant links for this topic listed below.

https://legacy.suttacentral.net/en/iti22

https://suttacentral.net/dn30/en/sujato
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