Bodhicitta is something that we have to give birth to so it’s not like a metaphysical concept - saying that bodhicitta is there and you have to believe in it. You have to give rise to it so in your mind and heart you have to experience that. When you do that then you become transformed and the possibility of reducing ignorance, reducing anxiety, fear – all the problems that we face as living beings can be reduced.

-- Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche