He takes a story that might have suited the madcap, provocative style of his early comedies and infuses it with brightly colored melancholy and a sense of wise, limitless compassion.
Being recognised as a master who has achieved enlightenment but, out of his limitless compassion, has vowed to take rebirth to help reduce the suffering of all sentient beings is merely the latest in a long line of Zen-like achievements for Seagal.
Some possibilities: What stands in-between you and a deep clear, limitless compassion for all living beings?
Iconographically, when you see the image of a Buddha, representing the innate potential of all beings to awaken to their True Nature and highest potentials, the Buddha is actually seated upon, and has as its foundation, a double dorje, or crossed vajra, which symbolizes the unity and inseparability of limitless lovingkindness, compassion, equanimity, and sympathetic joy which embraces all beings.
Yet Buddhist tradition speaks of celestial beings of limitless wisdom and compassion, such as Amitabha Buddha and the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who have dedicated their abundant merit to the cultivation of heavenlike Pure Lands for the salvation of sentient beings.
With those you love, whether human, animal, or nature, you manifest selfless compassion and limitless generosity.
That's why, together with HuffPost, Dignity Health is bringing you stories that spotlight the limitless strength of human compassion to inspire a movement of kindness and healing.
In her pitch-perfect marital dramedy, "Private Life," Tamara Jenkins approaches a couple's infertility with limitless wisdom, humor and compassion, drawing superb performances along the way from Paul Giamatti, Kayli Carter, Molly Shannon and especially Kathryn Hahn.
"Namely your unswerving commitment to the poor, your limitless schedule and your massive compassion for others".
While the darkness of humanity seems to only become more obscure, the compassion of humanity is limitless.
