We must understand how other sentient beings are suffering. In order to understand Emptiness, we need to know our daily situation, our own mental disposition, how come we encounter problems, and so on and so forth.... We must understand our defilements and generate great interest from our hearts that we want to be separate from these defilements. Then we will really want to destroy the root of our problems, which is ignorance. In doing so, we can then understand Emptiness. Also, we are able to generate Bodhicitta much better. Through this understanding, we will find the relationship between Emptiness and Bodhicitta. We will also find Great Compassion.

-- Dagyab Rinpoche