5-24-13 - Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

the 103rd anecdote - read

2013 Scan (getting the archive backlog on cuke to preserve and work with later anywhere)

# 63 - Remembering the Dragon - a short book on Shunryu Suzuki created by Gil Fronsdal for the 100th anniversary of Shunryu Suzuki's birth. Text only. $10 paper. order only from  SFZC Bookstore

A Message mainly to Californians from the National Religious Campaign Against Torture

This holiday weekend, we urge you to take a moment for California's youth. One final hurdle remains for passage of Senate Bill 61, a bill to limit the harmful practice of placing young people in solitary confinement in California. Thanks to your support, S.B. 61 passed through the Senate Appropriations Committee this past week, and the bill goes to the Senate floor on Tuesday for a vote.

Your support is needed in this final push for passage! Please take a moment this holiday weekend to express your support for S.B. 61 to your local Senator using the sample email we have prepared.

Fire Ants and a Dime - in DC Misc

5-24-13 - Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

the 102nd anecdote - notion

2013 Scan (getting the archive backlog on cuke to preserve and work with later anywhere)

# 59 - Paul Lee letter

# 60 - Narcissus

# 61 - Narcissus on Shunryu Suzuki

# 62 - Suzuki excerpt from New Gods in America

say hi in DC Misc

5-23-13 - Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

the 101st anecdote - loaves

2013 Scan (getting the archive backlog on cuke to work with later anywhere)

# 55 - Paul - awareness

# 56 - Pauline - dream

# 57 - Paul Lee letter - to Tokujun

# 58 - Phillip Wilson note

Esoteric local DC biz in the "too much info for most" category - lots

5-22-13 - Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

the 100th anecdote - self

2013 Scan # 51 - Ned Hoke letter

# 52 -  Niels Holm notes-1

# 53 - Niels Holm notes-2

# 54 - Notes-x

A reminder - while going through things here in Fort Worth and getting the home ready to sell, scanning a ton of material from Crooked Cucumber Archives backlog and backing it up redundantly - to work with and process into shinning form on cuke.com later. That next step will take time and can be done wherever there's electricity nearby. Thanks Warren Lynn for focused, intelligent, diligent work. A CCA gold star is awarded. - This note posted in What We're Doing.

Wrote a brief piece On the making of Music for a Comic Book Video for Santa Fe DJ/sampler/not-sure who got a box of these LPs to pass around to colleagues. Is that spelled right?

5-21-13 - Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

the 99th anecdote - tired

2013 Scan # 50 - Mel Weitsman notes - sideways

 # 51 - Matsu Zaki's intro on Suzuki in the earliest translation of Zen Mind Beginner's Mind.

 # 52 - Natalie Goldberg on Shunryu Suzuki in Writing Down the Bones.

Cruel and Usual Tax Collection including a link to a song by DC on the subject

The Guitar and the New World: A Fugitive History

reviewed by Taigen Dan Leighton

5-20-13 - Opps. Forgot Al Tribe's birthday two days ago. He was born on Shunryu Suzuki's birthday (5-18-1904) so we post-posted it there. Just like posted Mitsu's birthday a day late (4-23-1914).

Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

the 98th anecdote - use

2013 Scan # 47 - Dainin Katagiri on Suzuki

# 48 - Laura Kwong notes

# 49 - Loring Palmer on Suzuki and LSD

Jack Van Allen sent this 6th century Heart Sutra a while back. Linked to from the Heart Sutra page

Market Watch - College Grads Scammed

Photos of our Steinway which is now for sale.

5-19-13 - Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

the 97th anecdote - glasses

2013 Scan # 44 - Kaz Tanahashi - notes on war and teachings

# 45 - K. Kato book excerpt about Suzuki & Taro during the war

# 46 - Kobun Chino letter to Tokujun Grahame Petchey - 1-14-67

DC MIsc 3 launches with yoga update

5-18-13 - Happy Birthday Al Tribe, born on Shunryu Suzuki's birthday.

Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

the 96th anecdote - overlooked

2013 Scan # 41 - on Jean Ross

 # 42 - JJ Wilson notes - redo - too light (we're doing almost scanning every day now in Fort Worth. Will get back to the light ones. - DC)

 # 43 - On Maggie Kress' death

Cuke Heart Sutra Page started as a hub for posts of the last few days and whatever else comes up on the subject.

Here's a better presentation of the last link put up yesterday. Take Action Today to End Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention - an appeal from NRCAT - the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

5-17-13 - Can't get today's post ready till later. Below is the material gathered so far to work with. The subject is the Heart Sutra

Commentary by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

IN THE PRAJNA PARAMITA SUTRA the most important point, of course, is the idea of emptiness. Before we understand the idea of emptiness, everything seems to exist substantially. But after we realize the emptiness of things, everything becomes real—not substantial. When we realize that everything we see is a part of emptiness, we can have no attachment to any existence; we realize that everything is just a tentative form and color. Thus we realize the true meaning of each tentative existence. When we first hear that everything is a tentative existence, most of us are disappointed; but this disappointment comes from a wrong view of man and nature. It is because our way of observing things is deeply rooted in our self-centered ideas that we are disappointed when we find everything has only a tentative existence. But when we actually realize this truth, we will have no suffering. - http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/heart-sutra?page=0,3

Earlier post on Shunryu Suzuki's "translation" of the Heart Sutra.

Two links to the version Allen Ginsberg chanted:

http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Translations/Ginsburg_Heart_Sutra.html

http://www.rockument.com/Haight/Prajna.html

The version the Shambhala (Trungpa) sangha uses. (thanks Howie)

Forgot what the link below is.

http://org.salsalabs.com/o/2162/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13425

Later - DC

5-15-12 - Shunryu Suzuki “Translations” of the Heart Sutra. The basic English meaning printed beneath the Sino-Japanese on Sokoji chant cards. #2 - This one for the two sided chant card that was in use when I arrived at Sokoji in the late summer of 1966. - DC.

the 91st anecdote - blossoms

the 90th anecdote - garden

Going to start posting more scans per day to keep up with work on the backlog. Also adding relevant links.

2013 Scan # 22 - Interview notes with Dennis Samson - Dennis in brief memories

the 89th anecdote - feelings

2013 Scan # 20 - Letter from Shunryu Suzuki student from the war days, S. Asaoka

# 21 - Interview notes - Craig & Lew

Enjoy the annular eclipse today - if you're in Australia.

the 88th anecdote - tide

2013 Scan # 18 - Letter from Eric Storlie - too weak - redo

# 19 - Letter from Gary Snyder

Back in Fort Worth to keep going through stuff in Ahdel's home. Her older sister, my aunt Bruni (Brunhilda), who was upset that mother was dying and died before her, soon got word her cancer had spread, went into hospice, and passed on a few days ago two months after Ahdel did. She would have been 100 next month.  - More - dc

the 87th anecdote - chicken

2013 Scan # 17 - Diana Hart (Cheryl Hughs) interview notes

the 86th anecdote - wonderful

2013 Scan # 17 - Shunryu Suzuki in Dragon Thunder: My Life with Chogyam Trungpa by Diana Mukpo and Carolyn Ross Gimian. - Shambhala link - Amazon link

There are so many PDF scans this year of notes, interviews, photos, relevant material to go onto cuke already that we might have to increase the volume that go up daily or it will take years. Thinking about posting a bunch and then just introducing them little by little on What's New. And then there's integrating them into the site. Off to Fort Worth tomorrow with so much more to scan that it's being checked in as baggage. In the past one had to go to an archive to look for material but now it can all go on the Internet. In time I think artificial intelligence will organize it better. Planning for that would free me up to do more creative things - like finger painting and humming with the moon. - dc

One way diagnostics, medical costs will come down - thanks Gregory

the 85th anecdote - meat

Cheap Canadian electric car - thanks McIver

the 84th anecdote -question

the 82nd anecdote -arts

Join Karen Hamilton May 3, 4, and 5 for the 20th anniversary of Marin Open Studios. I will be showing paintings at Studio 333 in Sausalito. (333 Caledonia St.)

the 81st anecdote -disaster

What was new up to April this year