Start a New ThreadSource: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, Page: 249..250
Contributed by: Ryan Gendron.
When dicussing wisdom from the point of view of compassion, the Sanskrit term often used is bodhicitta, which has been variously translated as “enlightened mind,” “the heart of the enlightened state of mind,” or simply “awakened heart.” Bodhicitta is said to have two aspects, one absolute and one relative. Absolute bodhicitta is the term applied to whatever state is considered ultimate or fundamental in a given Buddhist tradition - the experience of the groundlessness of sunyata or the (positively defined) sudden glimpse of the natural, awake state itself. Relative bodhicitta is that fundamental warmth toward teh phenomenal world that practitioners report arises from absolute experience and that manifests iteself as concern for the welfare of others beyond merely naive compassion.

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Source: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, Page: 250
Contributed by: Ryan Gendron.
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students;
Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism;
And to some he teaches the profound,
The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment,
Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion