Why is compassion of foremost importance in the Buddha’s teachings? Because it is the root of all the vastness and profundity of the bodhisattva path. Compassion is the awakened heart itself.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book The Tibetan Buddhism Reader

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