3-16-13 -
Thannal, hand sculpted homes, from
friend Biju Bhaskar in Tiruvannamalai, India.
Help them to help nature.
2-25-13 -
April Bodman writes with a question: I've been trying to find a recipe
for the hot ginger drink they serve before bed during Zen Center sesshins.
I've searched all of the ZC cookbooks and tried Googling it every possible
way I can think of....nothing. Do you happen to know how they make that?
Also I'd be interested to know the history....Is it a traditional japanese concoction or just something one of the inspired cooks at Tassajara
dreamed up? Hope you can enlighten me. If you've got a lead on this please
send it here. Thanks. - dc
3-05-13 -
Thanks to BC Computer Services in Fort Worth, TX (817920-0909) (erin.bienert[at]gmail.com)
for quickly and cheaply finding and fixing the problem with my Asus X202E
Touch Notebook - cracked screen made touchpad useless and touch function
go haywire so they disengaged that which isn't necessary anyway.
2-13-13 - Seeking donations for
Asa Horvitz's
Koans and Performance Project
born out of the work of John Tarrant and Pacific Zen Institute.
Groundbreaking multi-disciplinary
performance based on Zen Koans, created by theater artists and musicians
from Denmark, Poland, and the US.
Asa writes: Dear Zen friends,
I took up Zen in High School and, after college and after
studying performance on a Fulbright in Poland I had this idea of bringing
together a group of international artists to explore koans and to create a
multi-disciplinary performance piece with one foot in the group theater
and experimental music tradition and another foot in work in the koan
world. After a year of intensive fundraising and development, this project
– the Koans and Performance Project – is close to becoming a reality.
So I am writing to ask for your help.
We have just put up an Indiegogo campaign
to raise the last chunk of money that we need to pay our performers and do
our first big round of work this spring.
Here
is a link to the site
2-11-13 -
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]
12-19-12 -
cuke's holiday gift suggestions - or post holiday or 2013 holiday.
11-09-12 - Lew Richmond and Peter
Coyote to give benefit performance for people who are ill - Saturday,
Nov. 10 at 2 pm, at the Community Congregational Church, 145 Rock Hill Dr.
in Tiburon - Well-being Fund created
10-16-12 - Only two days to go for Jamie Fox to achieve his
Kickstarter goal of $30,000 to fund his documentary film on the BP oil
spill. Jamie is already an acclaimed documentary film maker.
10-01-12 -
Community Grows - Barbara Wenger continues greening up the Koshland
Park and San Francisco and SF youth. Give generously.
9-29-12 -
Welcome, to
Jikoji's Sunday Programs - south of San Francisco, near Santa Cruz
9-19-12 - Robert Moses, the inspiring leader of the 1964
Mississippi Freedom
Summer Project, will be in the Bay Area at an Oakland
church near Mills College raising funds for Ron Bridgeforth [see
article in SF Chronicle]. While he is here, he would like to meet with
Bay Area veterans of the Mississippi Movement to discuss plans for a 50th
anniversary gathering of the Mississippi Summer Project. He was truly a
moving and humble spokesman for non violent change - and that's change
I hope for. - DC - Read details
9-13-12 -
Cooking from the Summer Garden with Deborah Madison
with Deborah Madison and Koyo Dan Welch September 28-30, 201
A benefit at and for Crestone Mt. Zen Center
8-01-12 -
Standing at the Blue Cliff: The Enlightenment Talks
September 13 –
16, 2012 at the Santa Rosa Creek Zendo
A retreat exploring the seminal koan text the Blue Cliff Record and
implications of enlightenment with John
Tarrant & Joan
Sutherland
7-06-12 - Sue Moon will be guest editing another issue of Inquiring
Mind, the spring 2013 issue, along with editor Barbara Gates, and Sue
writes, "Because it's a different sort of issue than usual, we are sending
out a call for submissions." Here it is:
The spring 2013 Inquiring Mind will feature stories and
poetry. Please send us creative work that comes from a dharmic
perspective, but you don’t need to mention the Buddha unless you feel like
it. 3,000-word limit for stories. Deadline: October 1, 2012.
Check out the
website, which will give you a sense of the printed magazine if you're
not familiar with it. Send submissions to
Spring2013@inquiringmind.com.
5-21-12 -
Stephan Bodian's School for Awakening begins this fall.
4-19-12 - Help needed for Diane Di Prima -
on Shambhala Sun
Space
Diane Di Prima cuke page
on the Poetry Foundation site
Donate
here
Diane di Prima on
Wikipedia
Diane was a student of Shunryu Suzuki and other Buddhist teachers and
is Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Get well Diane. - dc
3-17-12 - Consider Crestone Mountain Zen Center as a
possible venue for your group retreats.
They still have availability for 2012, and we are
accepting reservations for 2013 and 2014. For more information
please visit
their website or call the office at 719-256-4692.
Crestone Mountain Zen Center is a year-round Zen practice
and retreat center in one of the most secluded and extraordinarily
beautiful places in the country. The Center is located on 240 acres of
piñon and juniper forest, at the foot of majestic 14,000-foot peaks and
above the vast, ancient lakebed of the San Luis Valley.
CMZC has been hosting meditation, yoga, music, dance,
bodywork, writing, and psychotherapy groups for more than twenty years.
Della Goertz
memorial coming up the 16th of March
3-17-12 - 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
April 26 – 29, 2012
50th Anniversary
Sesshin
April 29 – May 4, 2012
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.
ZEN MONSTER LAUNCHES 3RD ISSUE
See cool Zen Monster release card
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enlarge
Zen Monster dot com
Available through SPD
With a contribution by DC as well.
Taigen
Dan Leighton's latest book, Zen Questions:
Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
is now available. Congratulations Taigen!
-
Wisdom Publications link to
Zen Questions
Excerpts from Zen Questions related to Shunryu Suzuki
Taigen's cuke link page for
much more
Vista from way above Crestone
Mountain Zen Center (CMZC).
This is a great place to practice or to hold workshops and retreats. - dc
Here's the zendo.
Calling all SF Zen Center alumni! Please offer your input on our newly forming alumni organization by taking our survey. An alum is defined as someone who has completed at least one full practice period at CC, GGF, or Tassajara, and/or has received the precepts from an established teacher at San Francisco Zen Center. See our introductory letter on the SFZC alumni home page. Please help us get the word out by emailing the survey link to friends and posting it on your blog or Facebook page, if you have one. Let's explore the possibilities of reconnecting our wider sangha.
Fire
Monks released July 7th.
Fire Monks events
page on Colleen Morton Busch's Fire Monks' website - San Francisco ZC
on 7-14, Green Gulch Farm on 7-17.
Fire
Monks Facebook page
There's a note in the back of the book that says for history on fire at
Tassajara (and that area) go to cuke.com/tassfire.
So that's there now plus more on the book, including
a brief review by DC.
Shambhala has brought John
Tarrant's
Bring me Rhinoceros back out
Look at Tarrant Works
and his Zenosauras blog
Check out Tarrant's books
on cuke.
and
PZI
(Pacific Zen Inst)
Santa Rosa Creek Zendo
with Monday eve gathering and
Sunday
Morning at the Creek.
A new zendo in San Francisco
A message from
our worthy friends at the
Chapel Hill ZC,
the only Soto Zen temple of Suzuki Roshi’s lineage in the southeastern
United States.
Decomposition:
Fungi-Inspired Poems
a new book by Kelly Chadwick and Renée
Roehl
(now in its second printing)
Decomposition is a stunning achievement – foxfire for the
mind.... Humorous, authentic, and intelligent, Decomposition is not to be
missed. -- David Rose in Fungi Magazine
Read about it, how to buy, and see a nifty
photo of the authors
Zen Monster, Vol. 1, #2 is now on sale @ all 3 ZC
bookstores or online @
www.spdbooks.com and 'google' Zen Monster on the site; its around $10.
And don't forget Zen Monster Vol. 1, #1. You can
order them both from
SFZC Bookstore.
Check out the Zen Monster website.
ZEN MONSTER LAUNCHES 3RD ISSUE
See cool Zen Monster release card
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enlarge
Books by Dainin Katagiri - compilations of his lectures
Out of Afghan!
Get a hit from
Nisargadatta
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When in
Colorado visit this Zen Boulder Colorado Bed and Breakfast
- the Briar Rose Bed and Breakfast.
It's beautiful, has a scrumptious breakfast, run by students of Zentatsu
Baker Roshi, and has a zendo. It's across the street from
Naropa University
Beltane Flowers
Elizabeth Tuomi Memorial Page
Kyoto Art and Antiques
Tell 'em cuke sent you. - dc
Need tech support? Try
David Cohen, Tech
God at Tech Light
who helps cuke.com out a lot. Thanks - DC
Check out Andy Ferguson's
South Mountain China tours
More on cuke on Andy
with it's fantastic videos of China and Chinese Zen
South Mountain China Zen Tours
2010 Report by fearless tour leader Andy Ferguson
Also check out Andy's momentous Zen's Chinese Heritage,
Wisdom Publications and there's a video on these
tours on the South Mt. site.
Andy Ferguson
cuke main page
defusermusic.com - a site for
the music of DC - the mediocre, the bad, and the awful
donate to cuke.com etc and help keep DC afloat. Mail a
tax deductible donation or use
PayPal or make a
direct contribution. Thanks gassho metta - dc
photo of this
bodhidharma by Doug McKechnie
Original site designed by Sheryl B at the end of 1998 and later redone by
The Empty Wig who made the above
banner. The work of both is still all over the site.
1-21-14 - Bob Gordon
plays his uke and tells stories of the rock stars at the Panama Hotel in
San Rafael, CA, on Wednesday Jan. 22nd. 
