The new ideal became the Bodhisattva whose outstanding quality was compassion and who would infinitely delay his or her own enlightenment until all beings were freed. In this way, the entire world was drawn into the process of liberation. Individual suffering was overcome by a compassion that was so all-embracing that personal sorrow lost its meaning. Paradoxically, if we accept our own suffering and fully relate it with the suffering of others, we transform that pain into a means of liberation.
