The starting point of the path – the BODHISATTVAYANA is in fact the birth of an awareness that all things are “void”; it is not a matter of a merely moral option. The ego of the aspirant starts off by identifying itself with the whole of samsara; it is through understanding the nature of the latter that the soul disengages itself from its congenital error and lays itself open to the realization of the Universal Body of the Buddha. (GTUFS: TreasuresB, Synthesis of the Paramitas)