{"id":2113,"date":"2020-06-23T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/?page_id=2113"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:06:59","slug":"buddhist-ethics-the-practice-of-enlightenment-tolerance-and-energy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/past-events\/buddhist-ethics-the-practice-of-enlightenment-tolerance-and-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Ethics: The Practice of Enlightenment, Tolerance, and Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1437,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1545 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/PRH-2.28.18-1-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Information about the event with Buddhist imagery\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/PRH-2.28.18-1-scaled.jpg?resize=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 663w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/PRH-2.28.18-1-scaled.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/PRH-2.28.18-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1187&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/PRH-2.28.18-1-scaled.jpg?resize=994%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/PRH-2.28.18-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1325%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1325w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/PRH-2.28.18-1-scaled.jpg?w=1656&amp;ssl=1 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","column_2":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Carolyn Bottler, &#8220;Buddhist Ethics: The Practice of Enlightenment, Tolerance, and Energy&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>February 28, 2018<br \/>\n7:00-9:00 p.m.<br \/>\nEastview Campus 8500<\/p>\n<p>Presenter<br \/>\n<strong>Carolyn Bottler, Philosophy Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderator<br \/>\n<strong>Grant Potts, Department Chair of Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Mahayana Buddhism, the bodhisatva path to enlightenment involves cultivating six &#8220;perfections,&#8221; or ethical qualities: generosity, moral conduct, patience, energy, meditative awareness, and wisdom. This year&#8217;s lecture by Adjunct Philosophy Professor Carolyn Bottler will focus on the middle two &#8220;perfections&#8221; of patience and energy. Come find out how increasing your tolerance and your energetic effort can relieve suffering for yourself and for others and lead to greater enlightenment for all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to the main page for <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/past-events\/\">past events<\/a>\u00a0from the Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""}],"hero_content":false,"sidekick":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2113\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}