If your teacher
approaches you as
you are sitting zazen
and asks if you
are working hard,
how do you answer?
If you say yes he will
chide you for zazen
is not work, but
if you say no, he
will tell you
to work much harder
at your practice.

A reflection on Case 83 of Dogen’s Shobogenzo Koans (True Dharma Eye) 正法眼蔵