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Someone at a lecture asked Suzuki Roshi about psychoanalysis.

In answer he said, "You think the mind is like a pond that you throw things in, and they sink to the bottom, like old shoes, and later they rise to the surface. But actually, there's no such thing as the mind!"

p.72. Ken Spiker, Sokoji, circa 1965.