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During a formal question and answer ceremony called shosan, Suzuki Roshi responded to a student's question, and the student started to get up from kneeling. Then Suzuki added slowly and deliberately, "The most important thing . . . is . . . to . . . find . . . out . . . what . . . is . . . the . . . most important thing."

p.81. Ed Brown, Tassajara, circa 1968.