In zazen

Leave your front door
and your back door open.

Let thoughts come and go.

Just don’t serve them tea.

—Shunryu Suzuki Roshi*

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*from Crooked Cucumber, chapter 15:

“The source for this (quote from Suzuki Roshi) is me, DC (author David Chadwick). I remember (Roshi) saying it and it stuck with me. Can't find it anywhere else searching shunryusuzuki.com or my computer. I see it quoted quite a bit on the Internet. That was over forty years ago, so it could be something I heard in a lecture or discussion or dokusan or something that someone else said they'd heard. Anyway, it sounds just like him.”