P. 42 Inconceivable Emancipation:
"We can create a world of the gods, a world of refined, sensuous, intellectual, aesthetic, but rather selfish, self-indulgent pleasure; or a world of human beings, a world of ordinary domestic, civic, political, and cultural obligations and activities. We can create a world of asuras or anti-gods, a world of jealousy, excessive sexual polarization, over-aggressiveness, ruthless competition, and overt or covert conflict; or a world of hungry ghosts, a world of neurotic craving, intense possessiveness, and relationships characterized by extreme emotional dependence. We can create a world of tormented beings, a world of pain and suffering, of intense physical and mental distress; or a world of animals, a world of straightforward food, sex and sleep.
Or, turning our back on all these, we can devote ourselves to developing as individuals. We can devote ourselves to the Budhisattva ideal. We can devote ourselves, direcetly or indirectly, to building the Buddha-land."
"We can create a world of the gods, a world of refined, sensuous, intellectual, aesthetic, but rather selfish, self-indulgent pleasure; or a world of human beings, a world of ordinary domestic, civic, political, and cultural obligations and activities. We can create a world of asuras or anti-gods, a world of jealousy, excessive sexual polarization, over-aggressiveness, ruthless competition, and overt or covert conflict; or a world of hungry ghosts, a world of neurotic craving, intense possessiveness, and relationships characterized by extreme emotional dependence. We can create a world of tormented beings, a world of pain and suffering, of intense physical and mental distress; or a world of animals, a world of straightforward food, sex and sleep.
Or, turning our back on all these, we can devote ourselves to developing as individuals. We can devote ourselves to the Budhisattva ideal. We can devote ourselves, direcetly or indirectly, to building the Buddha-land."
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