When you have questions or problems in your practice, it means that you are not practicing shikantaza. If you practice shikantaza, you will be monkey-minded buddha in shikantaza. You will be pain-legged buddha in shikantaza. And your whole body will be obstacle buddha—or to be obstacle itself is buddha. Is there any problem, when whatever you do, that is buddha? That is shikantaza.
Photo by Shundo David Haye
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-12-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.