The most compassionate insight of my tradition and its noblest contribution to the spiritual wisdom of humanity has been its understanding and repeated enactment of the ideal of the bodhisattva, the being who takes on the suffering of all sentient beings, who undertakes the journey to liberation not for his or her own good alone but to help all others, and who eventually, after attaining liberation, does not dissolve into the absolute or flee the agony of samsara, but chooses to return again and again to devote his or her wisdom and compassion to the service of the whole world.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
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Monday, August 14, 2006
Sogyal Rinpoche on Compassion
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Regardless of the absolute truth-ness of the Bodhisattva Ideal, I cannot imagine a more compassionate approach to life!
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