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One morning at the Haiku Zendo in Los Altos, a group was sitting around the breakfast table drinking coffee, and a student asked Suzuki Roshi, "What is hell?"

"Hell is having to read aloud in English," he answered.

p.27. Barbara Hiestand (RIP), Los Altos, circa 1966.