. "Because one of the reasons I wrote and published my own book on American Zen, ???The Zen Follies (more or less, less is more)???, available on Amazon, is that in my experience, especially at Tassajara Monastery in California, everyone took the practice so damn seriously, constantly berating me for my own practice (I was already 31), but when I would tell my Master, Katagiri-roshi, about it in doku" . . .