John Dunne: Bodhisattva Lineage

“Without the lineage, we are like people without fire and we’re going to be out of luck.” Professor John Dunne speaks about the importance of the Buddhist lineage and how it can often be discounted in our society steeped in American individualism. Dunne offers examples of our biological, cultural, and ethical inheritances that often occur concurrently, as well as our samsaric inheritance. Dunne proposes that an embodied experience with the lineage teachers, including their samsara, may better inform how we meet our present samsara and transform it into the buddhafield, seeing past and present, samsara and buddha nature as non-separate.