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Suzuki Roshi—author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind—video interview.

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I’ve read him for 20 years. Author of one of the three greatest beginner’s Buddhist books. But I’ve never seen him. God Bless Youtube, the gift that keeps on viewing:

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