The Fourth Sign and Mahakaruna

They [the Fourth Sign of Being in Advayavada Buddhism and the Buddhist concept of mahakaruna] are, in our view, very similar if not identical. David Brazier says in his Zen Therapy that the virtue of great compassion [symbolized for example by the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara] 'implies something universal'. He says that compassion is to tune in to the way of the individual who is in front of us now, and that great compassion, mahakaruna, is to flow with the mysterious but omnipresent Tao, the great way of the universe. This is also the position of Advayavada Buddhism. We believe that the objective of the Middle Way expounded by the Buddha is the abandonment of all fixed views and to reconnect and reconcile us with wondrous overall existence - we understand the Noble Eightfold Path as an ongoing reflexion at the level of our personal lives of wondrous overall existence moving forward over time. Our position also implies a deep trust in the goodness of existence as it is beyond man's commonly limited and biased personal experience of it. (from the Advayavada Buddhism website)