Openness and Compassion: The Precious Jewel

The following quote was included in a recent newsletter for the Zangdokpalri Foundation for Great Compassion. I thought it was quite meaningful and accessible.

Hope you all enjoy it.

“There is a well-known statement or formula, which is “Openness (emptiness) having the nature of great compassion.” If you understand this, you possess, you are the owner of all the four traditions of Buddha Dharma. The meaning of great compassion is the intention to benefit all sentient beings. If you have this great compassion, it is like possessing the most precious kind of jewel, a jewel that can create other jewels. .. then everyone gets to have a jewel and enjoy the satisfaction of having their own precious jewel. Compassion is the same way. If you understand the nature of openness (shunyata-emptiness) and compassion, whether your work is a worldly work or associated with Dharma, it matters not. Whatever you do in the world becomes Dharma.”—Kunzang Dechen Lingpa

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