Wanting Enlightenment

Wanting enlightenment is like going to the airport say in Los Angeles and asking for a ticket to Los Angeles. The ticket agent will most likely tell you, “You’re already in Los Angeles.”
“But you don’t understand,” the person will say, “I want to go to Los Angeles.”
“But you’re already in Los Angeles.”
“No, no! I want to go to Los Angeles.”
“O.K.,” so the ticket agent might say. “We can route you from Los Angeles to San Francisco, then to Denver, then to Chicago, then to New York, then to Atlanta, then to Dallas, then to Phoenix, then to Los Angeles. Would you like that?”“Wonderful,” the seeker will say as if in a dream.

Zen practice is just like this-you are already there, but you don’t know it.

Its like Linji said, "looking for the true meaning of life is much like riding an ox, while looking for the ox.