Arthur Green describes the Zohar, the great classic of Kabbalah, as
a lush garden of sacred eros, filled to overflowing with luxurious plantings of love between master and disciples; among the mystical companions themselves; between the souls of Israel and Shekhinah, God’s lovely bride; but most of all between the male and female elements that together make up the Godhead.
— Green (2004, 3)
This imagery in the Zohar affords a parallel to the bodhisattva vow, in these words addressed by the Blessed Holy One to Jerusalem:
Just as now, the holy people do not enter you in holy array, so I swear to you that I Myself will not enter above until your inhabitants enter you below.
— 1:1b (ZP I.6)
Daniel Matt’s comment says that ‘The Blessed Holy One promises not to enter the heavenly Jerusalem, Shekhinah, until the earthly Jerusalem is restored.’
The bodhisattva (or Blessed Holy One, or Jesus) is not an exemplar of self-sacrifice, giving up his own good for the sake of others, but a practitioner of enlightenment like Shakyamuni Buddha, who, upon seeing the morning star, “simultaneously with all sentient beings and the great earth” attained the way (Tanahashi 2010, 1148). A buddha has no self to sacrifice, no thought of individual salvation. The prophet or bodhisattva may indeed have to endure suffering or martyrdom for the sake of helping others, but the others accept that help not by weeping over the martyr’s fate, but by ‘seeing the morning star’ (reading the turning sign) themselves.
Would you agree that detachment in the quote below is reading the turning sign?
The mystic and wondrous Bride, hidden ere this beneath the veiling of utterance, hath now, by the grace of God and His divine favor, been made manifest even as the resplendent light shed by the beauty of the Beloved. I bear witness, O friends! that the favor is complete, the argument fulfilled, the proof manifest and the evidence established. Let it now be seen what your endeavors in the path of detachment will reveal.
(Baha’u’llah, The Persian Hidden Words)
Yes, i would agree. Attachment here is i think to a familiar or habitual interpretant of a sacred sign, and detachment from that would remove the “veil of utterance,” opening the door to a more direct perception of the Bride. Maybe this detachment could even get one to the Point hidden behind the Hidden Word!