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Soon after she had arrived in America to join her husband, Suzuki Roshi's wife said, "Why do you work so hard preparing for lecture? It's raining, and the last night that it rained only two people came. I hope that ten come tonight."

He answered, "One or ten, it makes no difference!"

p.82. Mitsu Suzuki, Sokoji, circa 1962.