Jean Ross began studying with Shunryu Suzuki very soon after he arrived in San Francisco. In this podcast, the first of two on her, I read from what’s in Crooked Cucumber and what she wrote about her experience studying Zen in Japan in the early sixties—at Eiheiji, Sojiji, and more. Listen to the podcast and read more about her.

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This is an excerpt edited from lecture 70-08-03 found at cuke.com/f.

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