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What is being said in the video, first of all, he is talking about different levels of compassion. this doesn't mean a little bit sympathetic vs. heavily sympathetic. What is being discussed is the development of compassion, through gradual levels of understanding, which is free from the thought of "Me" being compassionate to "you", in other words, compassion based in the ordinary context of truly existent self and other. The purpose of this is to develop compassion which doesn't pick and choose and isn't dependent on passing circumstances, but is universal and boundless.

Yes, in that context and on the relative level suffering exists in all degrees. The fact that this topic is even an issue of concern is in fact suffering, because in the mind, it doesn't sit right and this presents itself as some type of problem. What this Lama is alluding to is that beyond that, and one could use the term, "one's buddhanature" or "original mind" or "enlightened miund" or whatever, at the level of your true nature there is no suffering.

My understanding is that what the Buddha taught is that we suffer because we do not see or understand or experience 'reality' or existence the way things truly are. We cling to the idea of a self, and filter everything through that. the point of dharma practice is to remove the obstacles which obscure the mind's original nature which is inherently free from suffering. So this is what this lama is referring to, the mind's original nature which is originally without any confusion or suffering.

Whether it is helpful to a practitioner to consider or conemplate this and apply it to every day life depends more on the practitioner than the teaching, i think.