On a match box: “Strike Anywhere”.
Kobun’s literal translation of the elements in the word shikantaza strings together as: “pure hit sit”.
Here’s one from “Zen Letters, Teachings of Yuanwu”:
If you want to pass through easily and directly right now, just let your body and mind ...
Be like a person who has ‘died the great death’; after your breath is cut off, then you come back to life.
(“Zen Letters- Teachings of Yuanwu”, trans. Cleary brothers pg 84)
I have this experience often when I sit (my breath is “cut off”), particularly in the transition from exhalation to inhalation, and the focus ...
I only mean that right at the moment where my exhalation turns to inhalation (and to a lessor degree where inhalation turns to exhalation), observing the activity without altering the activity requires that I be waking up or falling asleep to it- that is to say, in a state where I am observing the action but the normal linkage to conscious motor ...
