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While serving as Suzuki Roshi's attendant, I arrived at his cabin at Tassajara and found him in his underwear scrubbing out the toilet. "I should be doing that," I said, with some embarrassment.

"Sit down and have some tea," he answered.

23. Alan Marlowe (RIP), Tassajara, 1970.