-- Zen Master Entering Hell --

An official asked Zen Master Joshu, "Will the master go into the hell or not?"

Joshu said, "I entered the hell long ago."

The official said, "Why do you enter hell?"

Joshu said, "If I don't enter the hell, who will teach you?"

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Remember! To keep silent and be meditative is more comfortable for a Buddha. But if he keeps silent you will not start your inner journey, the journey of meditation. So he speaks, even though he knows that the truth cannot be conveyed in words. This is his great compassion on us.
He is himself free from all the sorrow, still he understands our pain. He sees our ignorance and the suffering caused due to it. He feels it and come to help us - to liberate us from our suffering, knowing very well that he cannot do anything. Only we can help ourselves. This is his great compassion on us.
Being a human being, still not realizing our Buddhahood is the failure of that very compassion. 
Meditate. Zen means Meditation!