Shame, loss, physical pain, and even death are part of life; they are folded into the bodhisattva’s imaginative vision of the path ahead. Bodhisattva fearlessness doesn’t deny catastrophe. It recognizes its inevitability. Everything that exists will one day not exist—this is how existence works; this is its beauty and the source of its bounty. So bodhisattva fearlessness is very solid, very tough, very large. When you feel it, it’s easy to give the gift of fearlessness. You will give it all the time.
