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Zen Center was a magnet for sixties counterculture arrivals to the San Francisco Bay Area. An older woman asked Suzuki Roshi if he felt any pressure and difficulty with all the various ragged, long haired students who came off the street seeking enlightenment.

"I am very grateful for them," he said. ”I will do all I can for them."

p.75. Rowena Pattee, Sokoji, circa 1966.