“It seems to me that compassion is not really possible unless you can desire – because if you can’t desire, you can’t have much appreciation of what arises in the sense fields. If you can’t appreciate what arises in the sense fields, you can have no communication with phenomena and therefore no capacity for compassion …” [pause] “In Sutrayana we’re taught not to grasp – but that’s because we delude ourselves with the idea that phenomena can cause happiness. With Vajrayana however, there is the understanding of emptiness – that phenomena are empty of the causes of happiness—or—misery.”
