Great Compassion

This is the place of those who are filled with Great Compassion, of those whose hearts remain deeply touched in love and wisdom, as long as others still moan in suffering, misery and sorrow. This is the place of those who shall eternally commit themselves to the wellbeing and enlightenment of the whole of reality. Here is the place of those who give expression to themselves sitting in meditation and on all the paths of existence. Deeply rooted in meditation, they are at the same time totally concerned with helping all beings, going down to the very bottom of things, out of reverence for all who are already awakened.

—Avatamsaka Sutra or “The Scripture of Inconceivable Liberation”