“But, if there is really no self and other, no happiness and suffering, and so forth, what need is there to liberate all sentient beings since there are in actuality no sentient beings, no liberation? How can there be any place for compassion?

The compassion which flows spontaneously out of wisdom manifests itself in skill-in-means — in the  understanding  of  the  peculiarity

and capability of  sentient  beings and in the production of countless expedients in order to liberate all these sentient beings. The skill-in-means of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas is expressed in countless expedients – in the presentation of the various traditions of Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana, or more specifically in the recitation of the Mantra of the Buddha Amitabha, in the stark unritualistic techniques of Zen, and in the rich and elaborate devices of the Vajrayana.”

The late Dr Peter Della Santina, Buddhist Scholar