Before you have a kind of struggle, you may wonder why we say you have to sit without any gaining idea. After you try various ways to be free from selfish ideas, then I think you will find yourself in the position where you can sit—just sit.
Drawing by Robert "Skip" Melcher
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-03-16 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.