SUZUKI-ROSHI DISCOVERS AMERICA
	What do you call that black bird there? Blackbird. © Dale R. Hobson. All rights reserved.
	When Shunryu Suzuki, one of the founders of the Zen monastery movement in the U.S., first came to the West Coast, his English was very poor. He asked a passerby in a San Francisco park the above question. The straightforward reply encouraged him that he would find fertile ground for Zen in the American mind.