When one recognizes awareness, however, one should rest without thinking it is “empty” or “not empty.” That is the recognition of primordially pure, rootless, self-existing wakefulness— genuine suchness. When that happens, one spontaneously thinks, “Ah! Poor ones!” Just as water is wet and fire is hot, the natural expression of awareness is the flame-like heat of compassion. This awareness has unfabricated compassion as its nature...
~ Tulku Urgyen