I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.
The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.
We have the pure nature of the mind.
At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.
You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.
Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So I talk about how people can stop separating dharma practice - going on retreats, going to dharma centers, hearing talks, reading books - from their ordinary life.