Khandrola: There is no end to the suffering in the world because sentient beings voluntarily engage in creating the causes of suffering and therefore suffering arises, again and again without limit.
For an ordained person the way of helping other people is not just by giving food and clothing and shelter and those kinds of things but primarily by meditating on bodhicitta and the wisdom realising emptiness. Ultimately, except for generating bodhicitta and the wisdom realising emptiness, we can’t directly or manifestly benefit sentient beings. Other ways of benefitting sentient beings are just temporary or adventitious.
We have to think about the suffering of the six kinds of migratory beings and try to eliminate that just as we protect our own eyes. We are very careful to protect our own eyes. Likewiese, regarding the sufferings of sentient beings, we have to continually observe whether we are doing something to help reduce that by generating in our own continuum at all times, renunciation, bodhicitta and the wisdom realising emptiness, and try to continually generate those realisations
SOURCE: The International Mahayana Institute (IMI)
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