Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘There are certainly a wide variety of Buddhist texts that suggest that a person can attain a complete and final cessation of suffering. If I experience this, I doubt that I will complain about it, and if you have, that is wonderful. However, this is not something I aspire to, and no one I know claims to have experienced it. For me, practice is about cultivating the capacity to alleviate suffering. There is no end point, just an endlessly manifesting vow to offer each moment to the wellbeing of all things.’ (Inside the Grass Hut)

I subscribe to this view.