Compassion In Action

Once our awareness is amplified and expanded to a point where we begin to feel a part of our own being in others, then the impulse to initiate action will arise when we see suffering in those who are before us. Action to alleviate that suffering.

From the glimpses that I have experienced I deduce that for a Buddha all living beings exist within his being. Thus, when a Buddha helps another being, from her point of view she merely helps herself.

If the above awareness has not happened to a seeker yet, nothing much has been achieved, regardless of what the seeker might think of his evolved state.