Usually when you become very much attached to something, you have no freedom from it. But because of complete freedom, for us it is possible to be involved in or to be attached to something completely. That is shikantaza, true shikantaza.
Photo by Barbara Lubanski
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-12-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.