Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘DC: What was his teaching? What did he teach?
JK: I really can’t say, a teaching per se. You can say Dogen said this and this and this, put it in a slot. But Suzuki Roshi it was just like being a real person. Through his real experience of zazen, real zazen, that there’s a great possibility in all of us.
DC: Would you say that he taught to sit zazen?
JK: That was his teaching. That was the main thing. And how you could also be the same as him.’ (from Cuke.com)

Another from the series of interviews undertaken by David Chadwick, recording the history of Suzuki Roshi and the early days of Zen Center. I feel luck to have met Kwong Roshi a couple of times over the years; I know some people thought he would have been a good choice to be Suzuki Roshi’s successor.