But still you doubt, and still you make a separation from yourself and observe yourself from the outside: “Who am I? What am I doing?” [Laughs.] Zazen practice is not this kind of practice. Someone else is practicing zazen, not you. You should practice zazen. That is shikantaza. That is the Sambhogakaya Buddha.
From a tiny, overexposed Polaroid photo of the first sesshin, 1960.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-21 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.