Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

Student: Docho Roshi, do you have some question?
SR: Yes, I have question. Why are you so serious? (Silence, then Peter laughs, and then the whole assembly breaks into laughter.) If you start to laugh, that is all right. (from the Suzuki Roshi Archive)

The Monday study group has got to the end of the first sesshin talks at Tassajra, and I have been looking at the shosan from that week, which regrettably we do not have a tape for.