Even when you practice zazen alone, without a teacher, I think you will find some way to tell whether your practice is adequate or not.

Everything should exist in the right place, in the right way.

When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

Those who can sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen, the actual feeling of Zen, the marrow of Zen.

The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others.Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.