cuke.com - an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew him and anything else DC feels like - originally a site for Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

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Shunryu Suzuki  Index
will try to get this side in more logical order - dc


Shunryu Suzuki (鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆) (May 18, 1904 – December 4, 1971), dharma name Shōgaku  was a Sōtō Zen roshi (Zen Master) who popularized Zen Buddhism in the United States, particularly around San Francisco. - from Wikipedia


shunryusuzuki.com - the archive comes to you - all the transcripts, all the audio - and more.

cuke.com's Suzuki Lectures and Quotes, comments on a few topics, correspondence.

the Suzuki Roshi section of the SFZC's website which is very well presented, the focus being the Dharma Talks Blog moderated by Zen Center Priest Korin Charlie Pokorny.

Shunryu Suzuki quotes and more on Facebook


Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

Core Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki

Brief Bio of Shunryu Suzuki

Chronology of Shunryu Suzuki's life

Shunryu on Shunryu

Crooked Cucumber Comes to America - (almost) 3300 word story of Suzuki's life.

SHUNRYU SUZUKI LINEAGE from Dogen -

Suzuki lineage from Dogen kanji

Interviews with those who knew Suzuki or who at least were around - in America and Japan.

Suzuki Stories

Brief Memories of Shunryu Suzuki

On the term, Crooked Cucumber

Reflections on Shunryu Suzuki

People Index - recently started list of people on cuke with multiple links and some relation to Shunryu Suzuki

TASSAJARA AND SUZUKI IN THE TIME OF THE SANDOKAI TALKS, in the summer of 1970

zmbm.net - a site for Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Beginner's Mind - Marian Derby's original manuscript that led to ZMBM

Excerpts from Crooked Cucumber

The photos from Crooked Cucumber.

main cuke photo page

DC on Shunryu Suzuki and So Forth

Audio and video featuring Shunryu Suzuki

Della Goertz's notebook PDF[this pdf is not working - will come back later and deal with this] (mostly Suzuki)(nead to go to View and rotate clockwise) p35 upside down and too big) Will fix when know how. See Della interview for more.

Shunryu Suzuki on War and Peace

Shunryu Suzuki in Thank You and OK!

Cucumber Project

Shunryu Suzuki Archiving

Wikipedia entry on Shunryu Suzuki

December 2006 Wikipedia Entry on Shunryu Suzuki

Excerpts about or mentioning Shunryu Suzuki from other books

Bibliography of this site. Also, see articles.

Dharma groups in or related to Shunryu Suzuki's lineage (online or off).

Another Suzuki Archives Projects link

Photograph Gallery

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
on Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Commemorating Suzuki Roshi's arrival in America on the Chronicles of CTR site

Memorial 12 part series by Rev. Koshin Ogui, Bishop of Jodo-shin-shu on Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki 100th Birthday Bash

Hoitsu Suzuki - Shunryu's eldest son

Zen is Right Here, Shambhala, fall 2007 - vignettes on Suzuki by DC

a list of Suzuki disciples - those ordained by him as priests - starting with what practice periods at Tassajara they were shuso

Buddhist groups and teachers in Shunryu Suzuki's Lineage or closely related

Shunryu on Drugs and Alcohol

Did Shunryu Suzuki use koans?

Shunryu Suzuki's College Thesis


See b&w video footage of Shunryu Suzuki.


2-01-08 - Were Shunryu or Mitsu Suzuki American citizens?


Sokoji - the Soto Zen temple on Bush St. in San Francisco where the SFZC started.


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2013 Suzuki or Suzuki student or friend related posts
from What Was New which has it all going back 13 years.

Go to Suzuki related posts 2011 and 2012

For Suzuki related posts going further back in time, just look through the What Was New for that year.


Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Transcripts 2012 and 2-13 --- INDEX - lectures and comments added to the digital archive this year - 2012.


Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki - Putting up each of the entries from this book one at a time. Anecdote Index.


2-19-13 - Four Questions from Thomas Moore Evaded by DC


Dale Smith Reading Philip Whalen - thanks David Silva

Philip Whalen page


2-16-13 - New transcript of Shunryu Suzuki lecture (fragment) from 70-04-25 problem audio for the Work in Progress section. - thanks Judy Gilbert.


2-12-13 - Shunryu Suzuki memories from SFZC Alumni retreat of April 2012


Dear Friends,
    Zen Center will be hosting a very special event to honor Mitzu Suzuki Sensei, the wife of Suzuki Roshi and teacher of Japanese tea ceremony for many of us.  She will be turning 99 this April 23rd.
    We will be gathering in the Buddha Hall at the SF Zen Center at 3:00 pm on Sunday, April 7th to have a simple tea together.  There will be time for sending our memories and regards to Suzuki Sensei by video.  Perhaps we will be able to Skype with Suzuki Sensei.
    For those who can stay, we will be having a Bento Box dinner at Zen Center following our tea and appreciations.
    Please come.  This event is open to anyone who knew Suzuki Sensei or would like to know more about this incredible woman.  And do feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone you think might be interested.
    Please let me know as soon as you can if you will be able to attend and if you will be staying for dinner.  More details to follow.
Mary Watson [If you need help contacting Mary, please email DC]


1-30-13 - DC Memories of MItsu Suzuki


1-29-13 - Mitsu Suzuki - Shunryu's wife in America - as found in Crooked Cucumber. Did this as part of a response to a request for stories about her for something that's being published (details later). Also put together some of my own memories (will post tomorrow) and suggested doing a cuke search from What's New or Index page for Mitsu, Okusan, Mrs. Suzuki, and Suzuki Sensei. Collecting all from that search would be rather time consuming. Would be a nice project though.

Note that I called her Suzuki’s wife in America. As far as I know, they didn’t live together in Japan, married five months before he came. - dc

posted in Excerpts from Crooked Cucumber

Mitsu Suzuki cuke page

Mitsu is the same age as DC mother Ahdel.


1-24-13 - Must do year end accounting for Crooked Cucumber Archives today.


1-22-13 - Interview with Jim Morton


1-16-13 - Zen Mt. Center - - - transcript - a 16 mm film made for KQED, San Francisco. Cuke Suzuki Film page.


1-11-13 - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind chart with links to original transcripts of lectures, Marian Derby's minimally edited first draft, first lines from original.

zmbm dot net

zmbm cuke page


1-10-13 - Working this morning with on shunryusuzuki.com which has two ways to present the Suzuki Roshi lectures - the New Search Form and the Compact List. Both will be developed further this year if all goes well. Comments and suggestions welcome. I want to thank the volunteers and contributors for making all this possible. It's slowly coming along.


1-09-13 - Got an email from an old ZC buddy (whose interview I have yet to transcribe and get on cuke darnit sorry Ron will get to it this year) with a subject line that read "At Zen Center in the 60's you were ahead of your time :-)" and a link to the Squatty Pott site. Good video and a good practice. I'm going to go back to squatting which I did for years. Thanks Ron. - dc - posted in dchad misc.


1-06-10 - Off to the Houston Zen Center in a while for the Saturday morning practice. Nice place. Good people.


Go to Suzuki related posts 2011 and 2012