It's amazing how just 20 minutes of sitting can be effective.

I'm already doing what I should be doing.

In the past month I stopped the sitting daily routine and I've been wasting time on every timewaster I could find.

The way I sit is shikantaza - just sitting. It's about having the right posture and just sitting, just being there.

It has no specific instructions "what should one do with the mind". Dogen set out only this instruction as to what to do with the mind during just-sitting:

Think of not-thinking. How do you think of not-thinking? Non-thinking. This in itself is the essential art of zazen. 

2) I've always had problems with money. I don't have a car, and currently it's very hard for me to travel around and try to find a Zen / Buddhist teacher. However, I eventually want to find a genuine teacher in Korea or Japan (I somehow believe those two places might be the best for look for genuine teaching). I want to spend 1-3 years in a Japanese temple eventually.

3) I think I have a decent understanding of what is meant by insight meditation and what is meant by concentration meditation. Although I have received no formal teaching, I have read volumes and listened to various teachers. I have a friend who trains Yoga who checked on my posture. I sit half-lotus. - When I sit, I will either focus on my breath and count breaths, or do just sitting (shikintaza). - 

4) As I am aware that almost all literature stresses the importance of finding a teacher, there are also mentions of a possibility to attain awakening by yourself (it is said it can be done through extensive study on dependent origination). It's not my intention to be forever self-taught. This is, if anything, provisional. I think practice at home is still better than no practice. And by externalizing my efforts on a blog I hope to hear critiques and comments to help me and guide me on this path, at least until I find the means and decide to find formal training.