To know the truth of suffering, I paraphrase Rinpoche, is to know the path 
through it. It is not enough, though, he added, for wisdom to know it, unless there is compassion enough for a person to do it. Wisdom alone can create problems compassion cannot solve (the nuclear bomb was an example he cited), but fooly-heart compassion never allows wisdom to evolve. We need both, in other words, in the same way that we need a teacher to teach us such truths and also must investigate ourselves anything any teacher teaches us. What good does it do, the parable he taught taught, to save our own mother by killing everyone else's? All sentient beings are each our own individual mother in countless lives since the beginning of time. It is this mother and all mother sentient beings to whom we devote our wisdom and compassion.
through it. It is not enough, though, he added, for wisdom to know it, unless there is compassion enough for a person to do it. Wisdom alone can create problems compassion cannot solve (the nuclear bomb was an example he cited), but fooly-heart compassion never allows wisdom to evolve. We need both, in other words, in the same way that we need a teacher to teach us such truths and also must investigate ourselves anything any teacher teaches us. What good does it do, the parable he taught taught, to save our own mother by killing everyone else's? All sentient beings are each our own individual mother in countless lives since the beginning of time. It is this mother and all mother sentient beings to whom we devote our wisdom and compassion.
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