"Zen practice has only one purpose and that is to awaken! To wake up to things as they are - not as we think they are or we want them to be, or we fear they are or might become. Zen is a return to actuality. One does not have to develop compassion any more than one has to learn to put out a fire on one of your arms with the arm that is not burning. We already have this wisdom and compassion."

Zen Master Dae Gak