Complex sentence: Luminous Passage; 14 During his years in San Francisco Katagiri sometimes toyed with the idea opening his own Zen community nearby, and not long before Suzuki's death he had opened up a zendo in his home in Monterey, California.
Split into simpler sentences: Luminous Passage; 14 During his years in San Francisco, Katagiri sometimes toyed with the idea of opening up his own Zen community nearby. So, not long before Suzuki's death, he did open a zendo in his home in Monterey, California.