"the sicknesses of the bodhisattvas arise from great compassion."

further to "Amida is foolish too", reading through the Vimalakirti Sutra i was struck by a passage which in my mind seems to affirm this aspect of enlightened activity actively seeking out and participating in sentient beings suffering -

"Manjusri, my sickness comes from ignorance and the thirst for existence and it will last as long as do the sicknesses of all living beings. Were all living beings to be free from sickness, I also would not be sick. Why? Manjusri, a bodhisattva enters into births and deaths for the sake of all living beings, and births and deaths always accompany sicknesses. Were all living beings free of sickness, the bodhisattva also would be free of sickness. For example, Manjusri, when the only son of a elder is sick, both his parents become sick on account of the sickness of their son. And the parents will suffer as long as that only son does not recover from his sickness. Just so, Manjusri, the bodhisattva loves all living beings as if each were his only child. He becomes sick when they are sick and is cured when they are cured. You ask me, Manjusri, whence comes my sickness; the sicknesses of the bodhisattvas arise from great compassion."

namu amida butsu