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Now im looking over a copy of a transcript of a lecture that suzuki gave, dated november 10, 1965. He founded zen center in san francisco and zen mountain center in tassajara, california, the first soto monastery in the west. A sentence in it reads, in beginners mind we have many possibilities, but in expert mind there is not much possibility. He was the founder of the san francisco zen center and the tassajara zen mountain center. Zen mind, beginners mind shunryu suzuki download free.
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