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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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Please link to us or suggest links. Thanks. There are many good Zen and Buddhist site. These are just a few that I've rubbed shoulders with. Go to their links and you'll probably find whatever you're looking for. I add links here not and then but this whole page hasn't been updated in a long time. It's not really a problem. Things are pretty easy to find on the web. Still, anyone who wants to send in additions, subtractions, or corrections to this list is encouraged to do so. - DC Buddhist groups and teachers in Shunryu Suzuki's Lineage or closely related. The San Francisco Zen Center's Web Site which covers the City Center, Green Gulch Farm, and Tassajara. John
Tarrant's Pacific Zen Institute
SCBA website (Soto Zen Buddhist
Association of North America).
Zenshuji, the Soto
Zen temple in Japantown in LA Jisho Carey Warner's Stone Creek Zendo, P.O.Box 1053, Sebastopol, CA 95473 - phone 707-829-9808 - no web link that I can find. - DC Soto Zen Temples and Centers around the world The Chronicle Project - stories of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Dharma Net's Buddhist Info Web - one ton of links. Shambala Sun - extensive links, recently updated [6/2000] Tricycle:
the Buddhist Review
Buddha Net Education about Asia website - see article on Shunryu Suzuki written for them. The contemporary writer Thomas Moore as in Care of the Soul. Peter D. Junger's Samsara site and here's the link to his site's section on Buddha Dharma and here's the page on Rev. Koshin Ogui. This site is well worth looking into. Check out the Buddha Dharma links. There are many I didn't know of. And you may find other sections of his website of interest. - DC Early Tassajara Alumni - what's happening now - 7/07 New Links, Messages with links suggested 12-22-09 - As Christmas approaches, a few favorite Christians come to mind such as Brother David at Gratefulness.org
12-20-09 -
my name is alex lorch and i am one of two founding members of eyes of
compassion zen center in salinas, california. i began my residential zen
practice with a year and a half stint at green gulch from april 2008 to
october 2009. the other member, and resident priest/teacher, is shinko
rick slone. rick received dharma transmission from norman fischer in
march 2009 and initiated eyes of compassion in september. the center
works in very close partnership with the franciscan workers of junipero
serra (in fact, we all live in the same group house). we are all integral
in running dorothy's place, a soup kitchen and community center located on
soledad street, salinas' skidrow. the zen center offers free guest
student stays in additional to longer residential stays of anywhere from 3
months to 23 years and beyond. 12-19-09 - Mark Petchey is doing great considering severe brain damage. He's enjoying his life and is awfully good natured. Here's his website. Review the history on his cuke page. 12-18-09 - Enjoyed visiting Dragon Mountain Temple out on the valley floor in Crestone and Shumei next door to CZMC. 12-17-09 - Met a fascinating writer named Douglas Penick in Boulder. 12-16-09 - Remembering the Boulder Zen Center and their zendo in their Briar Rose Bed and Breakfast. 12-13-09 - Wish I had more time for TED.com. 12-13-09 - Wish I had more time for TED.com. 12-12-09 - While at Naropa, I was introduced to Shaking Medicine and Creative Therapy during a superlative Boulder conversation. 12-11-09 - Visited Naropa University where I'm on a waiting list for a Frederick Lenz Foundation Naropa fellowship grant to work on the Shunryu Suzuki oral history where it intersects with Chogyam Trungpa
click on thumbnail to enlarge 11-11-09 - Please help Steps To Marrow 11-05-09 -
Shores of Zen
- a new Zen website by
by Jiryu Mark 11-03-09 - Sarlo's Guru Rating Service - 1600 or so of them he says. It's dizzying to go through this site. So many humorous and conflicting thoughts come to mind. His opinions are interesting and don't overwhelm the data. 11-01-09 - Hoff Berg Garten - sort of like Country-place Mountain Garden Hoff means "court" but I think here it refers to it being in the country. Anyway, this place is next door to Dharma Sangha's German retreat, Johanneshof. (see - there's that "hof" again). See the nice photo of Robert. It's his place. He's a really sweet guy. Actually, here's the homepage. It's great - organic garden, native plants, sells seeds online. - dc10-24-09 - Mooji - the latest greatest Advaita Vedanta guru. I'm a sucker for this stuff. - dc 10-21-09 - The Zen Site 10-18-09 - From near Shunryu (and now Hoitsu) Suzuki's temple in Japan, comes Shizuoka Tea. Heard about it from SFZC alum Kirk Rhoads whose brother Kent now lives in Shizuoka and is gathering up these leaves for you.8-02-09 - The Worst Horse is cool. 8-05-09 - The Worst Horse is cool. - Thanks Howie 8-04-09 - Willem Malten has some new thoughts on his blog. 7-03-09 - Jacqueline Kramer's Hearth Foundation--a home for spiritual parenting and homemaking. 3-30-09 - Cool Inquiring Mind Blog 3-21-09 - Jerry Bolick's poems now on his blog.
3-01-09 - http://www.wildmushroomsonline.co.uk/ - my son Kelly is an amateur mycologist so when I got a request to link to this site in return for a link from it to cuke, I couldn't resist. - dc
2-18-09
2-12-09 - Under the whether or not but coming up to share son Clay's MySpace music link. Beware, death metal. He's the drummer. - dc 2-05-09 - Gloria Levine writes about Harambee Arts 1-23-09-Link to Eric’s blog from Israel 1-17-09 - The National Religious Campaign Against Torture reminds us that torture is a moral issue, enlists religious organizations to join in opposing torture and works toward a change of policy by the US government. 1-15-09 - The informative Free Speech TV 1-13-09 - Check out books and writing by old friend Jane Bay. It's funny but the term "old friend" seems to have worked better when we were younger. As we get older maybe it would be better to say "dear friend." 1-08-09 - David Cohen home site and this is his news site - the limping gazelle. 1-06-09 - Check out Willem Malten's blog 1-05-09 - HFA - the Humane Farming Association - founded by Brad Miller who many of us know from the SFZC years past. In the Fauna Ahimsa section which has more links about the HFA, origin of Ahimsa in Jainism and Buddhism, and more. 1-03-09 - Happy New Year to Jana Drakka. Check out this latest article on the work she does in the Tenderloin of SF from the San Francisco Street Sheet. Cuke's Jana page. 12-26-08 - Bend Zen Group - where dc and Katrinka will be Monday night. 12-25-08 - Check out Stephan Bodian's site for a dharmic Xmas best wishes titled Joy to the World. Don't know how long it will remain up front. 12-24-08 - check out Stephan Bodian's site for a dharmic Xmas best wishes titled Joy to the World. Don't know how long it will remain up front. 12-23-08 - Check out Shambhala SunSpace with neat links and spotlights - like a tip of the hat to cuke.com with a Teaching of the Day from Shunryu Suzuki - can't link to their individual pages - just search in their site search box for "shunryu." 12-01-08 - As the holiday season approaches, let's remember Koa Books, founded by our old friend Arnie Kotler, and let us likewise look at the Speir Publishing Bookstore to see if there might be an item or two or three that grabs our fancy. 11-25-08 - In keeping with the firmly established policy of enlightened nepotism, cuke.com proudly presents the website of Camille Koué, DC's niece. 11-14-08 - 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. 10-24-08 - The entire Shobogenzo and much more on the Talks page of Shasta Abby. This group offers a lot. Recently I heard that they went total dana, meaning that they're not charging for anything but relying on contributions. I also heard that this approach increased their income. Anyone who can corroborate this please let me know. Right now I don't have time to look into it. Too busy herding the cats. - dc 10-19-08 - Check out the One Drop Zendo site. Great photo of Shodo Harada whom I studied with in Japan and who was our constant benefactor. 8-10-08 - Welcome to Heart Like Water 6-28-08 - Hollow Bones - it's a dark web site. I can read it better by hitting Cntrl + a few times to zoom in. Interesting Rinzai Zen site. Thanks JS 6-19-08 - Check out Two Balding Fat Guys. See the one on bass - that's Paul who is to publish an upcoming venture of mine. Paul was chosen by the cuke board of directors after an exhausting search for the best in POD - print on demand. You'll be hearing more about this. Anyway - check out their songs. When I get around to it I'll start a Christian section on cuke and Two Balding Fat Guys will be there. - dc
(an old cover I like) Inquiring since 1983 Check it out. - dc
6-04-08 - Check out Clark Strand on bridging Buddhism and the Bible and on the World Wisdom site and here's an article by him on meditation with gurus. 5-16-08 - Here's another entry from Danny Fisher's blog - A gentle reminder from Tai Situ Rinpoche. - thanks to Anna Noe Bonas for sending these Fisher blogs 5-15-08 - Check out Danny Fisher's "blog of an American Buddhist Chaplain." His May 17th entry is an interview with James Zito, the producer/director of the documentary Compassion and Wisdom: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.
5-04-08 - In today's Report on Celebration of Philip Whalen at the SF Public Library, there were a number of links such as to the sites of John Sumser, PZI, Dharma Dog, Gary Gach, Steve Silverman, Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, Michael McClure and Ray Manzurek, Bill Berkson, Clark Coolidge, and Alastair Johnston. 5-08-08 - Also, in looking at one of a zillion links on Philip I was reminded of the web site of Miriam Bobkoff.
Kyoto Art and Antiques is having an open warehouse sale in Seattle, May 1-11. See the PDF flier for this auspicious event. Even if you don't want to buy anything, just go by and say hi to the charming proprietors who are old friends of mine. Also, their wares are superlative. Tell 'em cuke sent you. - dc 4-08-08 - When I first came to the SFZC back in '66, Daniel Eggink was still around. He had a shaved head (the first to do so) was one of the fascinating characters around that scene. Here's his website's bio page - from there one can explore. [more on this date in Others] - dc 3-25-08 - Oops, linked to the wrong Robert Adams site yesterday. That's the one he specifically doesn't recommend. Here are the suggested ones and Andrew Main's note on Adams. 3-24-08 - Robert Adams - an Advaita teacher - check out Robert Adams Infinity Institute - thanks Andrew - this was a mistake, not the site Andrew intended. See tomorrow's post on it. 2-27-08 - Met at a San Rafael coffee shop recently with Dr. Lew Lancaster who for decades was with and head of East Asian Studies (or something like that) at UC Berkeley, who knew Shunryu Suzuki who joined him for some class events, and who has been doing some highly impressive work in Buddhist archiving for quite some time. Check out Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. That's him in the image to the bottom left. Lew was president of the University of the West for a few years. Here's a bit about him on their website. (more on Lew later) 2-25-08 - Check out Urban Dharma and Kusala Bhikshu 2-22-08 - Ross's Bolleter's website-warpsmusic - Ross on cuke 2-01-08 - You may wish to sit online at the Treeleaf Zendo and read the Treeleaf Blog. 1-17-08 - Brad Warner - Brad's blog with Brad's books - yesterday's entry with cuke comment.
12-29-07 - Balaam's website:
Inspired by Tolstoy
12-16-07 - DC sez: Had a Port Townsend visit which included a stop at the
incredible
Phoenix Rising book store and more - buddhas, jizos, boddhisattvas,
crystals, tankas, incense, CDs. Katrinka and I spent a while looking
around and talking to Jill, the owner, who sends this message:
As
all the great teachers have taught through the ages first we learn to love and
honor ourselves, and then to extend that love and respect outwards to our
family, our community, and then to all our neighbors And then peace will prevail Also - take a look at Gloria Simeneaux's worthy and impressive Harambee Arts: Let's pull togetherTM. This is Gloria's new project to work with children in sub-Saharan Africa who have been traumatized by the AIDS epidemic, civil wars, famine and displacement. Gloria is the creator of Drawbridge, an arts program for homeless children. 10-16-07 - Was compelled to bring you more Alan Watts Theater animation from The guys who do South Park - see 10-14 in WHAT WAS NEW for first posting. 10-01-07 - Read Andrew Main's informative message about Karl Renz Advaita-like independent teacher - with more links and quotes and schedule of immanent Bay Area trip.
On this last day of September, cuke.com turns toward Cambridge to acknowledge with a deep bow the 50th anniversary of the Cambridge Buddhist Association (CBA). (read more on cuke) Read more in a profile of the CBA from the Pluralism Project. 9-24-07 - thanks Cheryl F for alerting us to THE LEAF, the log of Treeleaf Zendo where, among other things, you can sit online with a virtual community. Check it out. 9-08-07 - Thanks to Ken Ireland for sending Katrinka McKay (via the PZI Talk list) the wild and whacky Episode 6 of the Stuart Davis Show (Zen and the Zen of Zen) as found on YouTube, or check it out on the Stuart Davis Show, presented by Integral Naked, from the Integral Institute founded, I think, by Ken Wilber. 8-16-08 - Ekai Korematsu Osho is in Australia at Jikishoan.
Sunday, August 5, 2007 - Front page Atlanta Constitution Zen news from
8/03 -
Silence, please!
Monday, July 30 - Check out Bruce Lipton's Biology of Belief - thanks to Mary E. 7-23-07 - Swami Beyondananda Calls for Impeachment - Check out the Swami's wake-up-laughing website. 7-20-07 - IMPEACH 'EM BOTH NOW - with lots of links 7-19-07 - I know a cool thing to do on cuke - have a list of web sites of people associated with this site which is mainly people from back in the Shunryu Suzuki era, or at least for now, do a list of links relating to Early Tassajara Alumni which is what I'm working on - the Early Tassajara Alumni.
7-06-07 - check out
5-15-07 - Check this
out: 4-29-07 - www.shin-ibs.edu - website of The Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, CA The National Religious Campaign Against Torture. Nonesuch School, Sebastopol, CA - Clay's school
Niels Holm
suggests:
Papaji and Gangaji and Adyashanti - three Advaita teachers And then there's Stephan Bodian. The work of Robert A. Johnson and Ken Wilber and The Alphabet versus the Goddess Three builders: Hundertwasser and Gaudi and Rodia. Nanda Town and Mosaiyaco - Silas Holm's work DC turned Niels on to Bashar 4-04-07 - Check out U. G. Krishnamurti, no relation to J. Krishnamurti, though they both come from India and were sponsored by the Theosophical Society for a time.
3-30-07 - A Course In Miracles is, I bet, the most popular
channeled teaching of all time. I say that without really knowing but what
would compare? Many people I greatly respect have deeply studied ACIM. I
see it as a mind-only spiritual teaching that uses Biblical language and
emphasizes love and forgiveness. Not what some Buddhist web-surfers would
be interested in, but for some others this gift will be appreciated. There
are, of course, sites on the web that are easily accessed.
I get a daily email from
Joseph G Veit
with brief lessons from ACIM. I asked if I
could mention him here and he said, "I am happy to include anyone who
sends an email to
jveit@sbcglobal.net with a request to receive
the daily lessons." 3-25-07 - Here's Gary Gach's web site. 3-20-07 - Here's Adyashanti's home page. 3-19-07 - Link trading with Manyzone dot com's Buddhism pages.
And check out The
Meditation Spot - a good place to send those who inquire so they can
make up their own minds which way to go. Other links like this
requested. 2-26-07 - Spirituality and Practice - Resources for spiritual journeys just set up a new web site and emailed me to fix their links so I looked it over and thought I'd mention them again here. Squeaky wheel. See their review of Crooked Cucumber. SpiritualityandPractice.com is a multifaith website on ways to practice spirituality in everyday life. You'll find book, audio, and film reviews; ideas and links for 37 essential practices; e-courses; online practice circles; teacher profiles; inspirational quotes; video and audio clips; articles; daily celebrations; discussion guides; galleries and art meditations; blogs; and more." 2-23-07 - A World Without Armies - See What's New for this day for a bit about an evening AWWA meeting in Mill Valley. Talked that night also with Mel Van Dussen about his TV show, Present. Check out the show's web site. 2-12-07 - The Shambhala Shop and Vajradhatu Publications - from Chogyam Trungpa's sangha. 2-08-07 - some recent additions
Link to
Education about Asia's website and
Here's a link to Josh Wolf's home
page. Check it out and help Josh.
Josh is Liz Wolf's
son.
12-09-06
11-14-06 - Zsolt Suto in Romania sends the following message and fascinating suggested link about Alexander Csoma de Koros, a very early explorer into the depths of Tibetan Buddhism: With this short mail I wish to inform you about the new project I am working on/for. It is called Koros-Tibet project. The project's site is here: http://koros-tibet.ro/ - I warmly invite you to have a look at it where you will find a short description of what the project is about. 10-15-06 - Natalie Goldberg, Zen writer, student of Dainin Katagiri, and more. Check out her books and all. 10-08-06 - Check out Jane Bay dot com. 7-08-06 - Zen Doctor is a trip. God-u-Like - An Irreverent Look at the Faith Industry. http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ - for your artistic side. 6-16-06 - Backyard Zen is sorta weird. [now it's gone - 5/07] 2-17-06 Don't forget Many Rivers Books and Tea in Sebastopol, California. 2-3-06 - Check out the new one page web site for the DT Suzuki Documentary Project. The film, named A Zen Life, is by Michael Goldberg.
12-26-05 Check out Mark Foote's The Mudra of Zen. 10/16/05 - Go to David Cohen's site www.marindot.com/home. Why? It's cool and he's Darlene's brother and he helps me DC with computer and tech problems and he may very well be able to help you with yours. 7/22/05 - Check out Dharma Dog. 7/22/04 - Zen Room Practice Group, Cocoa, Florida 4/21/04 - I have been practicing Zen for many years, but informally. I have Zen list on Yahoo, called Zen Forum and it has over 300 members. I also have a website dedicated to action figures, http://www.actionheroes.homestead.co and I would be happy to exchange links with your site if you are interested. [Sure. - DC] 4/02/04 - www.sliceofjapan.com, comprises photographs taken during my three year residence in Japan from 1995-98. Thanks, Michael Thaler, a big fan of Thank You and OK! And thanks to Michael for these great photos. - DC 3/10/03 - check out www.buddhactivity.com 3-22-03 - Just got a note asking if I'd trade links with the following: http://www.psychiclight.com/. I said okay. I'm just doing it because more links helps both of us to be ranked higher on searches. So I think I'll start a link section which says "Links obtained in trade merely to boost search engine score." - DC 2/6/03 - Dr. George Marshall and his book, From a World of Madness to a World of Sanity: Guides for Action. 2/9/02 - Check out Rowena Pattee Kryder's web site at http://www.creative-harmonics.org 7/12/01 - from the Mountains &
Rivers Order This group led by Abbot John Daido Lori,
seems to have their act together. With Dharma Communications, they have
the same initials as me - coincidence? 3/20/2000 - Check out the Missouri Zen Center at www.missourizencenter.org 11/23/99--Today there's an interview with Edo Shimano Roshi conducted by DC on June 26, 1999 at Daibosatsu Zendo in the Catskills a couple of hours out of New York City. A beautiful Zen monastery modeled on traditional Zen monasteries. See the website of his group, the Zen Studies Society at http://www.daibosatsu.org/.--DC 11/04/99--From Jack Van Allen: Think you might have some fun with: http://www2.one.net.au/~lourie/ [link doesn't work] Indeed. It's called Dharma the Cat and it's cool--check it out. A great Buddhist link with other great links on it.--DC 10/30/99--updated 7/07 - Carl Bielefeldt is the old Suzuki student involved with this outfit. Carl Bielefeldt, Selected Publications - Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies
10/19/99--Crooked Cucumber is [was] published in
England by Thorsons, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. ISBN
07225238876 It's [was] available from www.fireandwater.com (the UK's Harper Collins website). Also, an additional new site Thorsons.com will be live in January. The book is also available on Amazon.co.uk 9/19/99--Have had some exchanges with poetess and dear friend Jane Hirshfield recently. Try this site and see all the books she's written, read her poems, get her as a guest speaker: Jane Hirshfield. Thanks Jane--Love, D 9/8/99--from Jim in Fort Worth: try this site--Maria Kannon Zen Center www.mkzc.org. Then go to Zen links then click the Texas link from geocities. [Messing around on these links there's lots of stuff on Texas Zen and good general Zen links. Ignore password if you get asked for one.--DC] Check out Paul Maxwell's NETWORKS column in the Cyberslice section of Tokyo's Asahi Evening News, August 2, 99. It's got some great links. I'll list them here. For more info go to his column. The BIN is part of a Web ring that allows you to drift along to a seemingly endless series or related sites. Some of these can be fun, like the Blue Iris Sangha in New Orleans http://home.bellsouth.net/p/pwp-blueirissangha The graphics are clean and fresh, and there is commentary in verse on a famous Zen koan: Tricycle is one of the best general-purpose, English-language magazines on Buddhism, and their homepage www.tricycle.com offers brief excerpts from the newsstand version (of course) for "Essential Buddhadharma (in under 10 minutes) try http://www.shambhala.org/heart/index.html http://quietmountain.com/buddhism.htm Photos both exotic and puzzling are on display at www.aroter.org/, as well as examples of tantric art. To really plunge into Tibetan Buddhist art, visit www.tibetart.com/ Women Active in Buddhism have a homepage at http://members.tripod.com/~Lhamo/ Not far from where I live, Jakusho Bill Kwong Roshi lives and teaches at Genjo-ji, Sonoma Mt. Zen Center, near Sonoma CA ( 6367 Sonoma Mt. Road). See their web site http://www.sirius.com/~smzc/genjoji.html for more info on them and for directions to get there.--DC Jack Elias' site - Finding True Magic Jack has integrated dharmic perspectives from 32 years of Buddhist practice and study into his 12 year career in the field of hypnotherapy as a teacher and counselor. Through his vocational school, the Institute for Therapeutic Learning, he certifies hypnotherapists in his unique blend of Eastern and Western perspectives and techniques called Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP. His book, Finding True Magic, is unique and innovative in the field of hypnotherapy.--from his website.
[Jack has a lot to offer us all. Please visit this old Suzuki-roshi student at his website and read his interview on this site with links to more. -- DC] Click here to find out about the writings on engaged Buddhism of Ken Knabb at his website called the Bureau of Public Secrets, http://www.bopsecrets.org "This website features selections from Ken Knabb’s Situationist International Anthology (translations from the notorious group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France) and from Public Secrets, the recent collection of Knabb’s own writings. New texts and updates are being added every few days." [This is a really big interesting site with a lot to look through.--DC] 7/5/1999--Greetings. Last night I found my computer on HotBot and it had performed a search for Crooked Cucumber. I had a friend over but he's not likely to have done that. I was slightly mystified but chose to direct my attention to the sites that came up. There were twenty sites listed. I thought they were interesting so here they are.. I'm going to put the appropriate ones here under LINKS.--DC [First there was this:] Search Partners
It also mentioned Lew's new CD of piano music LAKE OF NO SHORE. Check that out too. Lew and I are dharma brothers, who, along with Angie Runyon and Ed Brown, were ordained by Suzuki-roshi just before he died. He runs a successful software company in Sausalito now, plays music, and teaches Zen. ================== On Lew Richmond's site he had a link to BROADWAY BOOKS at http://www.broadwaybooks.com/ our publisher's web site and bookstore locator,. a link to Random House books. http://www.randomhouse.com/ seemed to work better. [It was a little slow for me. I want to go back and try it again. I need to try to maximize my computer's speed. Also, Lew's book had a lot more on it--go check it out. Guess I should feed them some more material.*] [There were some other sites which sold books. I should have a section for that on this site. Where to buy. I can't list every store in the country so I'm not sure, but it seems it would be good to put down the ones that come up on a search and the ones I read at or where I know the people there. ] There was Open
Secret Bookstore Online. http://www.opensecretbookstore.com/Store.html
A review of Crooked Cucumber was on the Spirituality and Health website. There was Page One Bookstore in Albuquerque where I read on March 18th. [I couldn't get on this one.] . Ibis Books is a Bookstore for the Spiritual Seeker. We carry books on Astrology, Buddhism, Druidry, Enochian, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Magick,Meditation, Qabalah, Runes, Sufism, Tantra, Taoism, Tarot, The Craft, Thelema and Zen. Books on Zen for the Spiritual Seeker--http://www.ibisbooks.com/Zen.mhtml. [And there was amazon.com] In the Whole Earth Magazine, the summer 1999 issue, there's a review of Crooked Cucumber by Katy Butler.[ It's short so I'll put it here: Buy their magazine. It still fills an important nitch.--DC] Shunryu Suzuki-roshi came to San Francisco from Japan in 1959 when he was 55, fulfilling a lifelong dream. Before he got here, Zen was an idea, not a practice. He made it stick. He taught Americans to sit zazen; founded Tassajara, the first Zen monastery where women practiced as (almost) equals; and forever altered our cultural landscape. Just how remains a mystery. In Japan, he was an ordinary country priest, in a dying religious tradition, with an almost moribund temple. He needed his American students as badly as they needed him. This subtle and generous biography, by a "loose cannon" among Suzuki's early students, helped me understand the forces that shaped Suzuki in Japan, and how, before he died of liver cancer in 1971, he transmitted to Americans something both within and beyond both cultures. The book snuck up on me, much like the Soto Zen tradition, which emphasizes zazen and the awareness of everyday things rather than dramatic breakthroughs. (As Suzuki's successor Richard Baker once said in a ceremony, "Walking with you in Buddha's gentle rain/Our robes are soaked through.") Crooked Cucumber is a deceptively unassuming introduction to Zen tradition and to Suzuki, mostly through his own words, liberally scattered through its pages ("Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink"). It made me want to sit again, to wholeheartedly live my life with all its difficulty, and more than that: to be flexible and kind. ALSO in the same recent summer '99 issue of Whole Earth Review was Patricia Holt's article "Book Brawl, Independent bookstores, the Internet, chain stores and discount houses duke it out." Makes you think. ================== The Zen Center of Chapel Hill.
{Me old buddies led by Zen teacher Pat Phelan. I gave a talk there
while on my tour and miss them already.] Chapel Hill (NC) Zen Center
is a Soto Zen meditation group in the lineage Link to Sedge Thompson's West Coast Live for many reasons. It's a great, satisfying, eclectic show with especially well-chosen musical guests. On May 15th, 1999 the live show was broadcast from the Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley. [I was on that show and so were Charlie Musselwhite, the Bobs, and an Australian woman named?* who wrote an interesting looking book on Japan called?* My wife, who speaks her mind, liked my interview, and I felt okay too, but, Michael Newell, a friend in prison who heard it, thought I was too speedy and didn't give Sedge Thompson enough room. Newell had kinder words for Crooked Cucumber. I'll print both here in time.* This show is available for download (15mb), or as a RealAudio stream at WHYY 90.9 FM. ================ ==================== Some Buddhist magazines listed in alphabetical order. They're all good: Shambhala Sun http://www.shambhalasun.com/ [more magazines to come] [This came up too:] Crooked Cucumber (frame navigation) 7/4/99--Subject Eureka! Hey David, I just found the link you're looking for. It is http//www.alanwatts.com/.-- Rich (RS) This is the site for the Alan Watts Electronic University. He's been called, along with D.T. Suzuki, "the great bridge." Mark Watts, Alan's eldest son, has shown his skill as an engineer in offering to the public his father's tapes and videos, did and still does the excellent tape archiving work of Suzuki-roshi lecture tapes for the SF Zen Center. "Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit..." Los Angeles Times. "Alan Watts is a great Bodhisattva."--Shunryu Suzuki. [more on Alan Watts* in time] I traded the great blues singer and fellow Sonoma County-ite, Charlie Musselwhite, a Crooked Cucumber for one of his new CD's, "Continental Drifter." It's gotten a lot of play in our house. Check him out at www.charlie-musselwhite.com. As I link more, I'll make link sections--this one would be under something like "Friends of cuke.com." need a zafu? http://www.dharmacrafts.com/ New Dimensions Radio --- New Dimensions Radio explores the social, political, scientific, environmental and spiritual frontiers, through radio and television interviews, with many of today's foremost social innovators, thinkers, scientists and creative artists. New Dimensions Radio is a creation of Michael and Justine Toms as is Spirit of the Times, Explorations in Contemporary Culture, a new radio series presented *live* on the Wisdom Network and *live* on the web. All you have to do is click over to Wisdom Radio at this URL [Not working anymore. Probably there's a new one]. The Wisdom Network also broadcasts "New Dimensions" dialogues both on radio and television. http://www.geocities.com/prssmd2002 - a reader sent in this site on Kriya Yoga fraud
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