Please contemplate about our own lives and extend a hand if you can. WFP, the UN food aid organization, is now accepting donation online. Best of luck for those who are taking their final exams. Within, it manifests as freedom from vexation. Without, it manifests in the way we interact with what is around us.
True wisdom is without discrimination and is always at one with the environment.
It is in this external manifestation that you see that the practice is not simply the pursuit of personal spiritual gratification. If you are only interested in your own freedom from vexation and your own benefit, then you are not practising Ch'an. If you practice only for yourself, you may achieve some level of samadhi, a very concentrated mental state, but genuine Ch'an is always turned outward as well as inward.