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Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
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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 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. 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 Chronology of Shunryu Suzuki's life 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. Brief Memories of Shunryu Suzuki People Index - recently started list of people on cuke with multiple links and some relation to Shunryu Suzuki Core Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki zmbm.net - a site for Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Excerpts from Crooked Cucumber TASSAJARA AND SUZUKI IN THE TIME OF THE SANDOKAI TALKS - new 4-11 DC on Shunryu Suzuki and So Forth Audio and video featuring Shunryu Suzuki Suzuki Lectures and Quotes, comments on a few topics, correspondence. 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! 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
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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
2-01-08 - Were Shunryu or Mitsu Suzuki American citizens?
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What Was New -
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it all going back 13 years. Below is the second half of 2011 Go to the first half of 2011 The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures.
2-1-12 - What did Shunryu Suzuki have to say about precepts? Here is his first use of that term found in the digital archive. Thanks Jenny Wunderly for preparing this series. 1-30-12 - Added Chapter Three - Higher Education --1924–1930 to the the Notes on Crooked Cucumber folder but no notes for a while. Probably will get the whole book down first. 1-28-12 - Added Chapter Two - Master and Disciple--1916–1923 to the the Notes on Crooked Cucumber folder but no notes for a while. 1-27-12 - Lots of good new stuff on Shunryu Suzuki Roshi Facebook Page. 1-26-12 - "I didn't say that." - A brief memory of Shunryu Suzuki by DC 1-25-12 - Shunryu Suzuki on WikiQuotes 1-23-12 - Nicolas Pierotti - running for president with a memory of Shunryu Suzuki - in Brief Memories. 1-16-12 - Stream of Consciousness site has two pages of Suzuki Roshi quotes. 1-15-12 - Here's a list of Japanese and Buddhist terms from Crooked Cucumber (almost 500) just sent to Wei Qun in Beijing. She's going to take out the ones she doesn't need help with. Then the list goes to Tozen Akiyama (Hopeless Tozen) for kanji, Japanese characters, then back to Wei Qun. 1-14-12 - Shunryu Suzuki comments on the importance of practice periods and on If you are truly involved in the development of our way - from a Fall, 1967 Wind Bell now as text. - thanks to Edgar Arnold for transcribing this onto disc. And in the former of these, we have another phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #135 Also, a misspelled word was corrected from the Wind Bell version. Thanks to JR III for the use of his scanner to get this and other Wind Bell Suzuki lectures and quotes entered here and elsewhere on the online collections so that they are widely available. And thanks to JR IV for figuring how to get the audio files of Suzuki lectures off the hard drive Angus Atwell sent and thanks to him for his work to improve the audio quality of the lectures, a large ongoing project. And thanks to Ray Watkins for proofing the recently included Suzuki lecture.67-08-24CU. - dc 1-13-12 - Added Chapter One--Childhood to the the Notes on Crooked Cucumber folder but no notes for a while. 1-11-12 - Got the Introduction for Crooked Cucumber up to add notes to but it will be a while before any notes are added. 1-10-12 - The Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-24CU mentioned below on 1-08-12, a new addition to the on disc/online archive. This lecture needs to be proofed again against the Wind Bell or a scan of the Wind Bell from which it came. - volunteer sought. Thanks again Edgar Arnold for entering it onto disc. - dc 1-09-12 - Save the Date! In honor of its 50th anniversary, the San Francisco Zen Center is pleased to announce two very special offerings to be held at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji)
Alumni Celebration
Weekend Retreat DC note: Shunryu Suzuki arrived in the US in May of 1959 and people started sitting with him right away, but he wasn't officially installed as the abbot until May of 1962 and the SFZC wasn't officially named and incorporated until August of that year. See Shunryu Suzuki chronology. Made a little progress on the Notes on Crooked Cucumber - got up the Front Matter - but not many notes, mainly gotta concentrate on the index and words the Chinese translators need the characters for. More 1-08-12 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #134. Two new "most important" uses uncovered in a lecture and discussion recently scanned by DC from the fall, 1967 Wind Bell, and entered onto disc by Edgar Arnold in Munich. This lecture is being entered into the cuke archive of Suzuki lectures along with two other small Suzuki statements from that same Wind Bell which Edgar also just entered onto disc. Right now I'm naming this 67-08-24C (the date attributed by the Wind Bell) with another lecture and a shosan ceremony for that date already. That's possible - it was at the end of a sesshin. The lecture will be posted soon and I'm scanning another group of lectures for Edgar. Thanks Edgar! - dc 1-07-12 - Al Tribe with a brief memory of Shunryu Suzuki - and a poem. 1-06-12 - First day of Notes on Crooked Cucumber and the first note on Notes on Notes on Crooked Cucumber. Kazuaki Tanahashi cuke link page
Chögyam Trungpa cuke link page 1-04-12 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #133 - from one of his last lectures at Tassajara. - that's the last one. 1-01-12 - A very happy New Year from all of us at cuke.com. A Shunryu Suzuki New Year's story 12-27-11 - Here's another scan of a Shunryu Suzuki comment on If you are truly involved in the development of our way - from a Fall, 1967 Wind Bell - included on the same page as the prior quote, below it. 12-25-11 - Merry Christmas. Last Sunday I told you that, whatever religion you belong to, it doesn't matter when you to come and sit with us. That is because our way of sitting, of practice, is for you to become yourself. Katagiri Roshi always says, "to settle oneself on oneself." To be yourself. When you become you, yourself, at that moment your practice includes everything. Whatever there is, it is a part of you. So you practice with Buddha, you practice with Bodhidharma and you practice with Jesus. You practice with everyone in the future or in past. That is our practice. But when you do not become yourself, it doesn't happen in that way. -
Shunryu Suzuki 12-24-11 - Here's a scan of a Shunryu Suzuki comment on the importance of practice periods - from a Fall, 1967 Wind Bell. 12-20-11 - A few comments from DC on interview of Henry Schaeffer with Sam Bercholz on Rinpoche and Roshi as posted the day before yesterday. (Don't miss DC story at end) 12-18-11 - The transcript of Henry Schaeffer with Sam Bercholz on Rinpoche and Roshi now available on the Chronicles of CTR (Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche) along with the audio as featured on 12-15-11 here on cuke. Get the interview transcript and audio on Chronicles of CTR site. Read the interview on cuke.com with a link to the audio.
Rinpoche and Roshi An account of Trungpa Rinpoche's interactions with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, told by Henry Schaeffer with Sam Bercholz. -Listen to Chronicles Radio [Audio 18:54] In this episode, Henry Schaeffer and Sam Bercholz talk about *** Rinpoche throwing his mala over a fence in Oakland, California in 1970; *** Roshi blessing Rinpoche’s son, Taggie Mukpo, and the origins of the children’s blessing ceremony still practiced within Shambhala; *** a talk given by Trungpa Rinpoche at the San Francisco Zen Center entitled "The Open Way", and what Roshi said to his students after Rinpoche left.
Henry Schaeffer interview on cuke The audio has its own links but the text doesn't seem to have its own link yet, being just on the main stories page. Think must wait till it's archived to have a permanent page to link to. - dc
12-02-11 -
Shunryu Suzuki page on Everyday Zen website. On their list of books
about Suzuki they
Include 12-01-11 - Most days I try to put up one Shunryu Suzuki related post and one on something else. It has been suggested that these two subject lines be more divided. I mentioned this a while back and put up this new idea for a home page. It's also been suggested that cuke.com be only Suzuki and other stuff go elsewhere, like a blog or another site. I do try to isolate all Suzuki entries at the Shunryu Suzuki Index with a special What Was New on the right column. I'm thinking of maybe making the cuke home page be Suzuki oriented (as he's oriental) with a prominent link to Other DC Thoughts and Machinations or whatever. It would probably be less confusing which I'd be sad to part with - the confusion that is - but it would be interesting to do it that way. Hmm. Blah blah blah. Any thoughts on your part welcome. 11-28-11 - Have to redo The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #109 through #114 because I screwed up and was putting in repeats from earlier in the series. Also found #97 was a mistake. I don't know what happened. Little by little everything is becoming an amorphous blob. So anyway, here's - #109 in all its glory as it should have been presented. And it's an obscure one concerning an EKO chant which is a brief recitation offering the merit of the prior sutra. - dc 11-24-11 - Happy Thanksgiving. What do we have to be thankful for that isn't subject to decay? Shunryu Suzuki said on January 18th, 1968 in Los Altos, California, at the Haiku Zendo:
- Wisdom Publications link to Zen Questions Excerpts from Zen Questions related to Shunryu Suzuki Taigen's cuke link page for much more 11-09-11 - Four friends from over here went to the 500th Anniversary of Rinsoin, Shunryu Suzuki's temple in Japan. Check it out on the SFZC's Sangha News. Here we have Blanch, Mel, and Chuck at breakfast in the Rinsoin family area. More photos later.
13 years of Suzuki related posts on cuke - On the Shunryu Suzuki index page had already included on the right side a record of posts related to Suzuki Roshi and his students and friends going back through July. That will be enough for that page so made a new one for the first half of 2011. Plan to do this all the way back to the beginning of cuke. The regular old What Was New including all posts going back to the first is still there of course. Maybe it's not necessary but it shows a clear record of Suzuki archiving etc and I would imagine most people come here for the Suzuki related material and not all the other stuff I put up - like the following.
11-08-11 - ZEN MONSTER LAUNCHES 3RD ISSUE
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The release party for Zen Monster was at the Brooklyn Zen Center. 11-01-11 - Talking to a woman about getting Crooked Cucumber into Chinese and she sent me links to two organizations he's involved with. Here they are: The Dondrin Chojin Association The earth is
our destined carrier. 10-28-11 - Jack Elias' Rebel Buddha tells a Tassajara story that includes yours truly - dc (blushing) 10-27-11 - A couple of brief excerpts about Shunryu Suzuki and others from the late great Buddhist scholar Edward Conze's Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic. Two new sanghas for the links to dharma groups in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage
Go to Elsie Mitchell's main page on cuke. She died on Monday. On Tuesday talked with Huston Smith about her and agreed to send a message to her brother to say hi and inquire about her which had been thinking of doing for some time. On Wednesday worked on the letter. On Thursday learned from John Tarrant she' passed. Rest in peace great Zen pioneer. - dc 10-20-11 - A reminder of the Suzuki Roshi section of the SFZC's website which is very well presented, the focus being The Dharma Talks Blog is a way to study the teachings of Suzuki Roshi, moderated by Zen Center Priest Korin Charlie Pokorny. By publishing them over time, we can study Suzuki Roshi's way of practice together over the course of his teaching in America. Join in with comments and questions! Working on some possible new structuring for cuke. Here's a test homepage which would send one to the Shunryu Suzuki side or the Everything Else side. And here's the Suzuki index page that the Test Homepage would point to with the right side being What's New going back a few months of just Suzuki related material unlike the regular old What Was New which mixes it all up. The idea is to clean up the clutter, change the site from being like an absent-minded professor's messy desk to... to something more easy to use. I like the idea but.... - dc Yesterday Katrinka and I paid a visit to Huston Smith (new link page) who's doing great. She said he's gotten cherubic. His ear operation (which his doctor was worried he wouldn't survive but he said he had to be able to hear so the heck with it) was a success. Made a big difference. Brought up Elsie Mitchell who is not doing so well, and we agreed to send her greetings though she might not remember us. He said it was she who got him into Zen. He helped her to found the Cambridge Buddhist Society in 1955. When we arrived Huston's minister was there. When I said that now this is about as long as he likes people to stay, he said with charming humor, yes, it's important to know when to say that for me. Now go, it's time for you to go. And he shooed us out. - dc 10-18-11 - Pat McMahon's Remembering Shunryu Suzuki Roshi - posted in Interviews Was just exchanging messages on Facebook with Pat and asked him about any memories of Suzuki Roshi and he reminded me he'd sent them earlier and I found them in a place on my computer(s) [thanks to Google Desktop] I hadn't gotten to in a while to check for such. I wonder why I didn't put it up on cuke at the time - looks like it was sent almost four years ago. Hard to keep up with it all, especially because there are other callings. Just part of a large yet shrinking backlog of worthy material I'm trying to get posted or disposed of one way or another. And tonight there's more to be recorded which will be here on cuke as soon as it's transcribed. - dc 10-13-11 - To see the archive of 438 Shunryu Suzuki photos, join the Suzuki Roshi Archives group in Flickr. If you know who any of the people are in the photos, please leave a note. I've done a few. They can't be downloaded. Thanks. And thanks to Joe Galewsky for putting them up. If you have an idea of a better way to display them in Flickr or another program, please let me know. For instance, it's distracting to have "by galewsky" under each photo. - dc 10-11-11 -Upgraded the video section of shunryusuzuki.com - added another format to each selection so if one doesn't work the other should. 10-09-11 - Shunryu Suzuki (鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆)(May 18, 1904 – December 4, 1971) was a Sōtō Zen roshi (Zen Master) who popularized Zen Buddhism in the United States, particularly around San Francisco. Thus begins the Wikipedia entry for Shunryu Suzuki which I just spent some time going over and making a few changes - like comment on WWII period, why he left Sokoji, tempered his put down of Zen in Japan vs America, a few details here and there. An overall good job by someone. Why aren't these entries signed? - dc 10-03-11 - Interview with Jack Tjeerdsma September 9-24-11 - SHUNRYU SUZUKI LINEAGE kanji by Taigen Dan Leighton to go with the Shunryu Suzuki lineage from Dogen romanized. 9-23-11 - Shunryu Suzuki lineage from Dogen. Taigen Dan Leighton sent this list with dates incomplete. Kanji to follow. filed in Shunryu Suzuki Info
Manjughosha Edition This is an image of the former edition. The old title translates as "Shunryu Suzuki or the Art of Becoming a Zen Master." In consultation with Baker Roshi disciples Christian Dillo and Nicole Baden in Crestone Mt. Zen Center, the new title close to the English title was agreed upon which translates as "Crooked Cucumber - the Life and Teaching of Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki." The following is from Manjughosha's new brochure. The German at the bottom means "Rereleased German translation of Crooked Cucumber early in 2012." David Chadwick Neuauflage der deutschen übersetzung von „Crooked Cucumber"; Frühjahr 2012 And thanks to Michael Podgorschek in Austria of podpoddesign.com for scanning the whole book and to Edgar Arnold for working on that too and for now agreeing to transcribe some Suzuki lectures so we can have them available in the archive. Filed under Crooked Cucumber
9-19-11 - An Interview with Catrina Boni, widow of Bob Boni, early photographer for the SFZC.
August Expanded DC note on Shunryu Suzuki's definition of Sangha in yesterday's quote. 8-16-11 - First Part of the lecture from which yesterday's most important point came from - for clarification. The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #41
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1-05-12
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12-15-11
- New on the Chronicles of CTR (Chronicles of Chogyam
Trungpa Rinpoche) formerly the
Chronicles Project..jpg)
Taigen
Dan Leighton's latest book, Zen Questions: 
Dogen's Genjo Koan:
Three Commentaries by Eihei Dogen, Nishiari Bokusan, Shohaku Okamura and
Shunryu Suzuki (Aug 1, 2011) Published by Counterpoint.
Layla Smith
(Gyokujun Teishin) is the teacher at the
Steve
Weintraub is the teacher for the Presidio Hill Zen Group which meets on
Thursday evenings, 7 - 8:30 pm at St. John's Presbyterian Chuch at Lake &
Arguello in San Francisco. Their website will be
10-21-11
- Just learned that Elsie Mitchell, founder of the Cambridge Buddhist Asso.
in 1957, died on Monday.
The
German version of Crooked Cucumber is being re-released with a new name as
a print on demand book along with a number of other Buddhist books by 
