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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:
Bonus, a reading of Suzuki Roshi’s Single-Minded Way (not about myself) by Peter Coyote:
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