Bodhi Tree

The practice is learning how to meet that reality with greater clarity and steadiness.

That brings me back to the mythic image at the heart of our conversation, the Buddha beneath the Bodhi Tree confronting Mara.

Mara can be understood as fear, craving, doubts, and all the conditioned voices that pull us away from clarity and freedom.

Campbell described the Buddha in that moment with the line, "And the mind of the great being was not moved." As Joseph explained, an unmoved mind is not an unfeeling mind.

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and that is within Buddhism called the Bodhi tree.

So if you ever see Buddha, Buddha is always depicted as sitting underneath this Bodhi tree.

This is where he found his enlightenment, is in meditation underneath a Bodhi tree.

So Buddha's real name is actually Siddhartha Gautama.

Buddha is essentially a word or a title, a lot like Christ is, right? It's something to get to.

So the tree beneath, which this occurred...

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm fucking this all up.

He also plays drums for Good Witch, Bad Witch, a cabaret show featuring current and former actors from Wicked.

Steve played drums for off-Broadway shows Under the Bodhi Tree, Royal Family Theater, About Love, Sheen Center, and Tarrytown.

Currently, Steve is the drummer with Four Phantoms in Concert, a touring performance featuring former actors from Phantom of the Opera.

I think it's time to walk through.