In short, the best way is to get up, when people get up; to eat whatever it is when your friends eat; to sleep where our friends sleep; to behave like other students behave, without any reason [laughs.] That is, in short, the best way. That is shikantaza in everyday life. If you are not able to do that, you don’t know what zazen is.
—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.
