Ombodhiment: Resonance and Love Along the Path of the Educator
by LaPorte, Jessica Kidder, Ph.D., PRESCOTT COLLEGE, 2011, 252 pages; 3461881

Abstract:

Educators have a profound influence on others. This influence has the potential to change the world toward a positive, sustaining evolution. Beginning within our own existences, I offer the theory of Ombodhiment as a path of emergent compassion that deepens and expands the relationship we have for ourselves and all Beings. Through four fluid phases (Stream Enterer, Once Returner, Never Returner and Ombodhiment) educators become warriors of compassion in the expansion of their unique contribution to the world. By knowing oneself, an educator may know the world and begin to transform and truly lead by example. Sustainability must begin within the awakened heart of each of us if we are to communally create a Resonant Reality capable of sustaining Earth and all of her inhabitants. I define Resonant Reality as a creative and kindhearted space of origin for the expansion of life and love- where sustainability meets buddhahood. An interior perspective is needed to articulate the potential of Ombodhiment as a fluid awakening to who we have always been and the Love that has always existed. I suggest within this inquiry that this can happen as an ambient paradigm, an unobtrusive way of being that resonates by surrounding both the student and teacher in a gentle, inspired awareness. I do this through a four year reflective study of my life and experiences using reflective autobiographical narratives and case study. I then analyze these experiences using the organic inquiry approach and the Warrior of Inquiry Compassion lens. Using these methods, the existence of this Path within the study period is revealed with a model of transformation following the four phases stated above. The emergence of the Path within my experiences is identified as a shift from doing sustainability into Being sustainability. I am calling sustainability- the awakening of our hearts to sustain the compassion to awaken the hearts of others and together ring profoundly through existence. I offer my experience and continue to walk my path of Ombodhiment. This resolve to evolve may be the spark that rekindles the fire in all compassionate hearts.

 
AdviserRick Medrick
SchoolPRESCOTT COLLEGE
SourceDAI/A 72-09, p. , Aug 2011
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsPhilosophy; Spirituality; Philosophy of education
Publication Number3461881
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