You may feel as if you are fooled by me, but it is not so [laughs, laughter]. It is not a laughing matter. You know, we are seriously confronting our selfish desires, and we are always observing things in a wrong way. When we come to this point, it is necessary for us to understand our practice of shikantaza.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-04-20 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.