“The Mahayana stresses the ideal of the bodhisattva, who out of boundless compassion dedicates oneself to helping others. A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, "To hell, for that's where help is needed most."”

—  Philip Kapleau

Zen: Dawn in the West (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1980), p. 83.

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