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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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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 Today from 4 - 6pm at my mother, Ahdel Chadwick's, home in Fort Worth, TX, there will be a celebration of the life of Richard Whinery. See Richard Whinery Memorial Page with photos - dc 12-14-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #120 - precepts and driver. Bypassing voice messages II (and the irritating phone company prompts that follow). - in DC Misc 12-13-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #119
12-12-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #118 12-11-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #117 12-10-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #116 - the motto of Zen Center. DC Misc - Humiliation 12-09-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #115 - the motto of Zen Center. Lesa Lowitz - check her out and her husband Shogo's new book www.j-boysbook.com 12-08-11 - Happy Buddha's enlightenment day. Obituary for mother's mate, Richard Whinery - farewell Dick. We'll miss you. - dc 12-07-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #114 - Suzuki's golden rule. Arrived in Fort Worth. All is well. Worked on Dick's obit. 12-06-11 - RIP Richard Whinery, mother's mate of 23 years. Died yesterday afternoon at her home in Fort Worth. I was already packed because of something else that had come up all of a sudden - Katrinka and I were just getting ready to go to San Rafael to the Panama Hotel (where she works) for the night. And that's on the way to the airport which came in handy. 12-05-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #113 - Suzuki's golden rule. Cuke Skepticism on brain, mind, soul, reality, truth, etc, and what people today call skepticism 12-04-11 - 12-03-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #112. Check out Christopher's Black Tie Cinemas thing on YouTube - something he does with high school friends though it's extracurricular. The one called Laundry Room is downstairs. I don't know if it's appropriate for a thirteen year old to be killing his friends down there but who am I to judge? He is now working on an ad for a new venture of mine. And he's going to start a YouTube account for me so I can do important and profound videos. I got an email recently from a friend who was disgusted with the self promotion of another Zen friend who's blogging rather prominently and has a presence on Facebook and all and that for some whacky reason greatly reduced my hesitancy to promote myself. I thought, yes - I should promote myself more. I can see it now - videos, blogs, eventually statues and anthems. Oh yes and that reminds me. I'm urged to move my personal and non Zen stuff off somewhere else. I do think I'll do that to some extent. - dc
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Shunryu Suzuki page on Everyday Zen website. On their list of books
about Suzuki they
Include Here's Everyday Zen's teacher page with brief bios on founder Norman Fischer and others, mainly a bunch of old friends from the SFZC. 12-01-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #111. 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.
November 11-30-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #110. Back to Santa Rosa today down 97 to 5 to 20 to 101. 11-29-11 - Went to some great restaurants in Walla Walla with elder son Kelly who's in the wine biz and heard a lot of wine talk which was over my head - like being with friends speaking a foreign language I know some of but not enough to follow what they say. I had a lot of good strong tea and one pomegranate with a touch of some vinegar at the Jim German Bar where all was exceptional. - dc 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 In Walla Walla waiting for elder son Kelly to show up at the fabulous Marcus Whitman Hotel. Thanks Kelly! - dc 11-27-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - this was a mistake so there's no link now (#109-114 had to be redone). - dc Met with friends Cheryl and Madeline in Sisters, Oregon, yesterday, both with ties to the SFZC. Madeline's hubby Tom joined us. He'd been swimming. Turns out he holds world records, impressive for someone who's either 70 or almost 70. See some of his records at US Masters Swimming. Tom turned me on to Skeptoid - Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomenae. - dc 11-26-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - this was a mistake so there's no link now (#109-114 had to be redone). - dc Can't put a second item on today - being pulled into Minastirith. 11-25-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures -this was a mistake so there's no link now (#109-114 had to be redone). - dc NY Times review of The Better Angels of our Nature on the reduction of violence in modern times - as mentioned here on cuke 10-23-11. - thanks Gregory 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:
On the other hand, there's Robert Scheer's Thanks for What? on Truthdig and I'm grateful he wrote that.I'm also grateful right now to Adalie and Nick of Bellatazza coffee and tea shop in Bend, Oregon, for being open on Thanksgiving - till one. And I am indeed grateful that Seth and Christina have provided a friendly place to go to now and be grateful that Katrinka (Seth's mom) will be there by my side - or over on the couch. - dc 11-23-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - this was a mistake so there's no link now (#109-114 had to be redone). - dc The other day when visiting with Shin and Etsuko Yoshifuku (see 11-18-11 What's New) we spent a lot of time remembering friends and acquaintances we knew in Japan. Shin said the C&F Communications, a transpersonal psychology and at least back then 23 years ago, a translation house, is still going but the only website Yoshiko could find is this one in Japanese. And it's still being run by Tim and Yoshiko McLean who took it over back then when Shin and Etsuko moved to Hawaii to surf, raise their boys Zen and Ken and do other important things. Tim is also now the only certified facilitator of Byron Katie's The Work in Japan. Read his brief statement on the Katie site to see the range of what he has to offer and contact him there if you wish to follow up. For instance he does workshops for therapists and leads pilgrimages on the famous Shikoku route. I didn't know him well but we met a few times around the office there. He'd gone to UC Santa Cruz where past wife experience Elin remembered him from. He'd also been a monk at Hoshinji in Obama for some time. 11-22-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - this was a mistake so there's no link now (#109-114 had to be redone). - dc National Religious Campaign Against Torture. Like to plug these folks now and then. That way I can feel like I'm doing something to reduce torture and can then spend the rest of the day ignoring the suffering of others. - dc I like the Keiser Report such as this one sent by Eric Arnow. Don't really know anything about economics but that doesn't stop me from putting up stuff about Buddhism either. - dc 11-21-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - this was a mistake so there's no link now (#109-114 had to be redone). - dc
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 11-20-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - #108 - also obscure Off to Bend, Oregon today to visit with Katrinka's son Seth and daughter-in-law Christina and to say hello to some other friends in the area and maybe see son Kelly half way to his hangout of Spokane, WA. We'll be staying tonight in a motel in Klamath Falls (Originally called Linkville when George Nurse founded the town in 1867, after the Link River on whose falls the City sits). - dc 11-19-11 - Ken Kappel's UseForeclosureLaw is a thorough website and book. Met him at Occupy Santa Rosa. Before he gave younger son Clay a ride back to Sebastopol, he told me all sorts of awful stuff like how when one gets foreclosed on the recent laws make it where the bank gets reimbursed, not the homeowner, and then the bank can also write it off and then they can extract the former homeowner's gold teeth and sell their vital organs and put their children in coal mines to slave away for the 1%. It was maddening. Glad my field is emptiness - I'll have to leave the phenomenal problems to folks like him. - dc 11-18-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - #107 - rather obscure. Going to visit Shin and Etsuko Yoshifuku in Berkeley today. Shin is Japan's preeminent writer and translator of books on transpersonal psychology. As I remember, he told me the first book he translated was Be Here Now. Shin and Etsuko were wonderful and helpful Tokyo friends when I was first in Japan in 1988. I stayed in the translation office. It was called C&F Communications. Etsuko is here studying the Rosen Method of bodywork with Marian Rosen who I think she said is 97 like my mother. Seventeen years ago, Shin was kind enough to send this blurb for Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan - "A unique unromanticized view of Japan and Japanese and American Zen. One leaves this book with a sense of our shared humanity and a confidence that we can work it out. No collection of contemporary books on Zen or Japan should be without THANK YOU AND OK!" 11-17-11 -
Home report - While preparing for Katrinka's arrival, had a kitty litter replacement injury, not an ordinary on-job occurrence. While kneeling and getting the litter box in place, my toes in sandals pressed straight down to the floor. When I shifted my weight to stand, I went back a bit too far causing buttocks to press on heels full body weight and the big toe nail on the right foot was stuck in the rubbery sandal material and couldn't slide back causing it to bear all the weight so the nail started to pull out but thank goodness just broke off a third of the way down producing a moment of intense pain leading to dizziness which soon subsided to be replaced by a feeling of warmth enveloping the traumatized toe then soothed by oozing blood. Later seeing the dried blood on toe Katrinka bandaged the wound. The pressure of sheets on toe top were too much and I had to keep my right foot above the covers till time to turn on my side and snooze away the night as the toe healed in the dark. 11-16-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - #106. - Oh, this is a good one, pardon my discrimination. - d Fatal Crossroads: The Untold Story of the Malmedy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge by Danny Parker (our Zen buddy). Amazon link. Read more about the book and Danny here at Bruce's Browser including Kirkus' starred review. Danny has been working on this book for years and years. He did interviews in German and English. Danny was recently ordained as a priest by Edward Brown. 11-15-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - #105. Just went to the annual IHS (the Institute for Historical Study) dinner. It's an organization out of Berkeley that can be very helpful for independent historians like me. They're my fiscal sponsor which means if one wants a tax deduction for a generous gift to the vital work I do, the donation should be made through the IHS. At the dinner, Richard Herr, Professor Emeritus of History, UC Berkeley, gave a talk on The Rise and Decline of the Homogeneous Society, which means like everyone has to be the same and speak the same language and keep immigrants out and such. I was tired and he kept me awake. Anyways, thanks IHS! And don't forget to Donate - dc 11-14-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - #104. Kyoto Journal - the great magazine now only on the web. Marijuana user persecution - arrests skyrocket in CA. Why? Cause it's easy and they're powerless - mainly black. 11-13-11 - Interesting almost effortless way to support Occupy Wall Street sort of thing. No Zen today. 11-12-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - #103. One can read into A Handbook for the Recently Enlightened by Duncan Barford here on Google Books. He and Alan Chapman used to have the Open Enlightenment website which now is just a page linking to their other sites such as Alan's videos. Now wasn't that 11-11-11 etc event yesterday exciting? Just a warmup for all the fireworks in 2012 which some say actually happened on October 28th, 2011. And what a day that was. - dc 11-11-11 - Three double hockey sticks to use the phrase of the 9-11 torpedoes leading Egypt to close the pyramids. Here's a site with suggestions on how to interpret the significance of this date. There's a movie from the director of Saw II, III, and IV. And soon for those in my time zone it's going to be 11.11.11 11.11.11 which occurs only once in 100 years according to this page of the UK Mail Online. Here's the official cuke reaction to this event:
Other than that, here's Brother David Steindl-Rast on Gratefulness dot org being grateful for the unique wonder of every day, every moment. - thanks Danny 11-10-11 - Berkeley Zen Center photo collection Note on this photo album and abbot Mel Weitsman's visit to Rinsoin from BZC site. Stand By Me sung around the world - for Gregory before surgery 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. For Katrinka in Baja - Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band - Across the Rolling Hills.Peter Rowan band plays Vulture Peak with some of the Heart Sutra thrown in.
11-08-11 - ZEN MONSTER LAUNCHES 3RD ISSUE
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The release party for Zen Monster was at the Brooklyn Zen Center. 11-07-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - #102. Michael Hofmann is a sumi-e artist who returned this year from 38 years in Japan. He moved to Sonoma County where I live and we met at PZI's Monday evening sitting. We had some Kyoto friends in common. Here's his website. Wonderful. Here's an article from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat last March. And below is Daruma (Bodhidharma).
11-06-11 - A day of rest - sort of - Katrinka flies to La Paz, Baja, tomorrow. Gone for ten days. Whoa is me. We went to a coffee shop and she had to meet someone and couldn't wait and my shirt was on inside out so I left it that way and thought that if I were a famous movie star that might start a new fad so I left it that way the rest of the day and pretended paparazzi were immortalizing my fashion statement. - dc 11-05-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures - #101. Here is the beginning of his lectures on the San Do Kai. Buddhism Now Blog - thanks Howie 11-04-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #100. Remember, this means this is the 100th lecture in which he used this phrase one or more times. Buck - a film about a man who works with horses. He says that a lot of times when he's helping people with horse problems, he's really helping the horses with people problems. I found myself reflecting on how he's also showing us how to better relate to each other. He was severely abused as a kid and became a gentle soul and a wise man. - dc 11-03-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #99. Refuge--the Journeys (a Buddhist film) - Nine or ten years ago a man named John Halpern came to what was once my back yard and interviewed me for a film named Refuge. He couldn't find me when it was finished in 2004 and I'd moved. Now he's trying to make it into a feature length film, from its present less than an hour length. So he's got a Facebook page and is raising money and having screenings.REFUGE ~ THE JOURNEYS Kickstarter Promo on YouTube with some brief excerpts starting with the Dalai Lama and later John Halpern encouraging us to support the next phase of this film. Here's a
2004 review from the Buddhist Channel. Incidentally, I shudder to think of what else I might have said. Why'd I do that? Oh well. - dc 11-02-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #98. Was reminded today of Tibet House Parenting story from the Onion explains all our problems - supposedly from a local (Santa Rosa, CA) group's study. 11-01-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #97 - Was a mistake so there's nothing there now. - dc 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. October 10-31-11 - Went to Oakland's Kojin-an yesterday Sunday for zazen and service and had tea with the folks there afterwards. This is Gengo Akiba Roshi's temple next to the home of him and wife Yoshi of Yoshi's Jazz Clubs and Restaurants in Oakland and SF. Kojin-an is a beautiful place, good people. - dc Went with friend artists sculptor blacksmith Andrew A to another Occupy Santa Rosa event on Saturday for a while and was impressed with the vibes. Not much anger. The media has a tendency to paint the crowd as unclear of purpose unemployed hippies. There is surely that but also there are plenty of employed and concerned about an imbalance that's causing a lot of grief. - dc
Got this graphic from Crooks and Liars. 10-30-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #96. 10-29-11 - Marathon of organizing email addresses. Forgot about cuke. This is the beginning of a fundraising drive so that we may provide you with more and better of the what we do here and so we can wrap up this work in the next three years - by the time I'm 70. We will be encouraging you to give till it feels good. - dc 10-28-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #95. Jack Elias' Rebel Buddha tells a Tassajara story that includes yours truly - dc (blushing) BBC - The world at seven billion - What's your number? - thanks JV 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
10-26-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #94.
All three poetry books by Beclee
10-25-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #93. Someone sent me this Just for Laughs Gags, a Canadian show with no dialogue or monologue, and for a while I couldn't stop Googling for more. All my names and email addresses are a mess, in different programs, and I've got to get as complete a list as possible to use in a fundraising drive for cuke. Any advice of best way to do this gratefully accepted. Love, dc [dchad@cuke.com] 10-24-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #92. Victor Wooten - I Saw God - thanks JV The Occupy Wall St. etc movement explained - thanks JV 10-23-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #91. Believe it or not - the world is becoming, humanity is becoming less violent - say three studies. 10-22-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #90. Judith Kennan Photography - Good stuff. Met Judith when she was in charge of construction projects at Tassajara. - dc
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 Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study - BBC article on this trend which could have catastrophic implications for meditation halls everywhere.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 10-19-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #89.
MK sent this from wherever he was - Nevada City? We had that sign here for Occupy Santa Rosa too. My favorite sign was a kid riding on his father's shoulders holding up a sign that read "My arms are tired." 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 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 Jenny Wunderly's wonderlious Art keeps coming. Check out her website. Search for Jenny Wunderly Art on Facebook. Climate change 'grave threat' to security and health - BBC - nothing new but since it poses such a threat to our ability to meditate serenely, it's worth occasional reminders.Hoping to get a new, simplified home page and approach to this stuff up tomorrow, the idea being to divide the site between Suzuki and other. Not sure how well it will work, there's so much gray area. We'll see. - dc 10-17-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #88. Ken Knabb of the incredible BOP Secrets on The Awakening in America (about the Occupy movement). Also, see Ken's cuke interview. While in Chicago a young woman approached me with info about the Mercy Home and what they're doing for some young people there with parent or no parent problems. I couldn't give money so I told her I'd mention this on cuke. Check 'em out. 10-16-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #87. Joined in on Occupy Santa Rosa yesterday. Check out some photos of son Clay, friends, and me and see links to articles on the local, nationwide, and worldwide event. - dc Put the prior and the following in the CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism section. Engaged Buddhism dc definition: Any social, political, environmental, etc stuff I'm bothered about. Differs according to person. Your engaged Buddhism might be opposite from mine. We might nullify each other. Thanks. - dc 10-15-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #86. 10-14-11 - Got carried away today delivering food to the PZI sesshin and working with Howie on barn improvement. 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 India slide show coming up at the SFZC's City Center on Friday October 21st at 7:30 pm with Shindo Gita Gayatri, Peter Oppenheimer, and David Chadwick which is me. See my India Trip Notes written earlier this year. - dc Oh yes, hope to get to the first step of site reorganization later today. Will start with a new home page.- dc 10-12-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #85.
A couple of talks DC gave in Chicago recently can be found on this page of the the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate site - Sept. 25 - Comments on Suzuki Roshi and Sept. 26 - Zen in Japan and America. I take it all back. - dc Site reconstruction coming this way soon. 10-11-11 - Looking forward to this day next month. It's a full moon tonight. Just saw 127 Hours, one moral of which is to always carry a sharp knife. My favorite part is what he did before leaving the place where he was stuck for 127 hours, after he'd unstuck himself. In the commentary director Danny Boyle said this part especially follows the book, what actually happened, closely. He quickly wrapped what was left of his arm, slinged it, gathered what he needed, took a few steps, turned back around, snapped a photo, paused and said "Thank you." Upgraded the video section of shunryusuzuki.com - added another format to each selection so if one doesn't work the other should. 10-10-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #84. Freedom Songs, part I - College - in DC Writings 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 Check out the Poetry Foundation's page on Tomas Tranströmer, the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for literature. Don't miss the poems from links at the bottom. Trey cool. He is indeed a transformer. - dc 10-08-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #83. From the MPP (Marijuana Policy Project): Department of Justice Takes Steps to Subsidize California Gangs; Threatens to Shut Down Medical Marijuana DispensariesFBI: 750,000 People Arrested for Simple Marijuana Possession in 2010. And for What? - It is time we stop spending billions of dollars ruining people’s lives in a vain attempt to prevent them from using a plant that humans have used safely for thousands of years.Tell Obama to keep his word on medical marijuana DC note: Haven't had any pot for years but continue to oppose persecution of those who do. 10-07-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #82. On the subject of torture: Check out National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) website. Support hunger striking prisoners and send a message to Gov. Jerry Brown from NRCAT. Join NRCAT on Facebook: www.facebook.com/nrcat and Twitter: www.twitter.com/nrcattweets End Prolonged Solitary Confinement - an issue NRCAT focuses on. Read the New Yorker article, Hellhole - The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? - thanks Janie Okamura10-06-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #81. A video on Evolutionary Enlightenment - from Bro Lor 10-05-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #80.
The audio of this classic narrative on the F word has been around longer than the Internet. I see in the credits of this video that it's a Monty Python production narrated by Steve Leyland. Don't know what the "Thanks to Lyris" means. I hardly ever use cuss words in my own writing, as I am watched over by my late maternal grandmother, but I am capable of appreciating profanity if used appropriately - as in this case. Thanks Howie for the reminder. - dc 10-04-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #79.
10-03-11 - Interview with Jack Tjeerdsma 10-02-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #78. 10-01-11 - Sat at the Russian River Zendo in Guerneville, CA today and heard a talk by Tony Patchell. Hadn't seen him since Darlene died while I was in India. Then got my dear little Netbook back fixed by the good folks at the CRC. Two sectors had gone bad on the hard drive. They were decommissioned and two spars moved into play. All is back to normal. September 9-30-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #77.
Our friend Father Steve Frost paints the Light and the Lonely. 9-29-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #76. Wow. Occupy together. - thanks Howie. Democracy Now on the Wall St. protests - thanks Taigen Noah Fischer was there in NYC where they're going to see that Wall Street redistributes the wealth more fairly. Hope they don't forget you. My wonderful little Netbook wouldn't start starting on 9-27. It's at the Santa Rosa CRC now - good place to get those things fixed here. Think I'll go back tomorrow and get a headset at their regular Saturday sale of used gear. Got back from Chicago yesterday. The last night there on the way home from the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, asked my friend Laurel to drop me off at the Green Mill at Broadway and Lawrence where I heard great gypsy-like swing till one A.M.. Here's their page for that show. Check out Green Mill history on that site. Oh, and since I was early, walked down the street looking for a place to eat and read and ran into a place called The Annoyance Theater and Bar. Grabbed some somosas to go at the next door Indian restaurant, got some lemonade and saw three 20 minute comedy plays for five bucks. After the music was over took a bus to my host home a couple miles down the street. Chicago was great. But more on the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate which opened to bring me there later. - dc 9-26-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #75. Chris Boys meets a scorpion on Arunachala. DC remaining Chicago schedule with the Ancient Dragon Zen
folks. Here's
the page on their site for my visit. 9-25-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #74.
View from the tower of the Hancock Building in Chicago where I visited with a good family on the 86th floor today. Wow. It's a beautiful city. Traffic's not so bad due to three levels of streets and the L. I'm down there in a coffee shop somewhere and must catch an L at some point tonight - L for elevated. - dc 9-24-11 - SHUNRYU SUZUKI LINEAGE kanji by Taigen Dan Leighton to go with the Shunryu Suzuki lineage from Dogen romanized.
9-22-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #73. death by spontaneous combustion? - a curious BBC reportWikipedia on the subject including possible explanations And then there's the rainbow body in Tibetan lore. When in Hyde Park Eric Shutt took me by Elijah Muhammad's former home now occupied by Louis Farrakhan, then by the former home of Muhammad Ali and then to the nearby home of President Obama and family. We parked, walked up to the corner of the lot, the front sidewalk was close, and after a couple of minutes, a Secret Serviceman on the other side yelled at us to go away. Here's a photo of Obama's home from when he was just a senator and they put out their trash in front and one could walk by.
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 9-22-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #72. Amory Lovins' response to Stewart Brand's new pro nuclear power position. For earlier links on this subject including a talk by Brand, go back to 4-24-11 through 4-29-11 in Current Events/Engaged Buddhism. After sitting and meeting with some people at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago, walked with hosts Eric and Laurel to dinner at a nearby restaurant, Medici. A sign there caught my attention and gave me an idea. As we walked away, I told them that I had a plan to do an event called "Let's do something unlawful and dangerous and get away with it." An announcement would go out and the group size would be fifty. We are to gather at Medici Restaurant near the U of C. When everyone had arrived and been sent to the second floor which is to be reserved for this exciting event, I'd walk upstairs point to the sign that read "Occupancy by more than 50 persons unlawful and dangerous" and then announce that the event had concluded. I'm confident we could pull this off before the restaurant caught on to this daring escapade. - dc 9-21-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #71. In the SFO airport on the way to Chicago walking to the gate I saw a restaurant sign that read "Sushi and Noodle." I imagined going in with a friend, one of us ordering sushi and the other, noodle. When our orders arrive, his plate is full of sushi and my plate has one noodle. When I protest, the waiter scolds my understanding of English and suggests that the next time I order noodles which is right next to noodle on the menu. Now I'm waiting to be picked up to go to the Rockefeller Chapel of U of C where we'll sit and chat about ultimate reality. - dc 9-20-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #70. Off to Chicago at noon thirty to the Ancient Dragon Zen den - dc Praying for donations to support this work. What work? Well, in Chicago, when I have time, I plan to focus on the most tedious work which is transcribing from audio Got lots of it to do including notes and interviews. And I think I'll write about the long hot summer in Mississippi and what occurred around all that.
9-19-11 - An Interview with Catrina Boni, widow of Bob Boni, early photographer for the SFZC.
The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #69. Reminder: Going to Chicago Sept. 20-29th to the Ancient Dragon Zen cave. - dc Thinking about how to present what I'm doing and want to do that might be considered worthy of donations. I don't think most prospective donors would be so interested in all the stuff written about Mexico and South America but I like doing that and can't work on Suzuki stuff all the time. But just yesterday I interviewed Catrina Boni and put that up today. There's a long interview just done with Jack Tjeerdsma that I've got to transcribe and enter (and there's tons of other stuff to transcribe and enter). I'm working with a kind helper trying to improve the listenability of some Suzuki lecture audio files, some so they can be transcribed for the first time. Getting ready to go through Windbells, just made sure my set was complete, to find Suzuki Roshi lectures not in the transcript collection on shunryusuzuki.com - will have to retype them. Sent an email to Gloria Discoe who did that with the last 60 or so entered on disc three years ago, mostly from the set of lectures Suzuki gave at Los Altos that were used for Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. There's more, much more, but that's enough to mention for now. But first have got to fix the shut-off for the water tank today before leaving for Chicago. -dc 9-18-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #68. Just thought of this poem today. - dc Hands By Robinson Jeffers Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near Tassajara Rick Levine reports that this poem was a favorite of Lloyd Reynolds, calligraphy teacher to Rick, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, David Schneider? and others at Reed College. 9-17-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #67. Real Cream in Rio - Part Six, the final chapter. [formerly called "Seeking a Refrigerator Repairman in Rio which was sort of awkward and tended to make people think it was a notice, typical for the Internet, put up by someone who was seeking what the notice said. Lots of crazy comments by others and me on the Brad Warner did a video interview with me. Like I said there, I see why I don't have a blog. - dc No time today to think about how to encourage donations 9-16-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #66. Brad Warner did a video interview with me while I was with him in Akron a few days ago. - dc Going to Chicago Sept. 20-29th to the Ancient Dragon Zen cave. Pondering further on how to support mind, body, and duty to others enough to get through this. I could sell things including my labor and that's possible but I'll also seek donations. Maybe offer rewards for donations. This here cuke.com is really the reward for what it's worth - this stuff that's put here and on shunryusuzuki.com and zmbm.net. But I could offer another little book of vignettes about Suzuki Roshi to those who gave over a certain amount. I'm also thinking about doing something called Notes on Crooked Cucumber and could offer that though that's going to take longer. More later. 9-15-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #65. Starting to think about fundraising and how to encourage more noble donations to cuke.com, shunryusuzuki.com, etc. Think I'll put something on here daily about it for a while. Thanks. - dc 9-14-11 - Art Now! Waking up to Formless Forms | with Jean-Paul Bourdier & Trinh T. Minh-ha. Sept 24th at Santa Rosa Creek Zendo - Check it out Thanks to Brad Warner for showing me around Kent and Kent State. - dc 9-13-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #64. Getting ready to print up my boarding pass for return from Akron to SF, CLE to SFO. Two days ago, at the Cleveland airport on the way home from this family event, my 97 year old mother, having been pushed up to the front of the security line in a wheelchair (only for the airport) was asked if she had any metal in her body and she said no. Gee, I remember her orthopedic surgeon showing her and me and my orthopedic surgeon cousin Phil a big piece of metal he'd put in her hip - looked like a trailer hitch with a spike coming out of it. But she forgot and as a result had to get a pat down and had to go through more extensive scanning. She does have a suspicious look about her and better safe than sorry. A tip of the hat to our nation's security team. At least she didn't say, "Well, I'm not very likely to be carrying a bomb on the plane," or something like that like Nancy Wilson Ross did years ago when John Bailes was with her. They pulled elderly sophisticate Nancy into a room for interrogation and she missed her flight. - dc
9-12-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #63. Had a great time talking with Brad Warner at a coffee shop in Akron last night. Have mentioned his books before here. Won't look for past links. Here's his Hardcore Zen blog with the latest being the Dharma of George Carlin whom I've also referred to on cuke and there's Louis CK too, another of my favorites. - dc.
9-11-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures #62. On 9-11 ten years ago a TV crew in the public square in Sebastopol asking people what they had to say about the morning's mayhem. I was there walking my Boxer Lola and said to the woman with the microphone I thought we should reflect on cause and effect. My prayer today is that people and their representatives stop using violence to make points, influence others, and solve problems. Would love to get a photo of mother on the dance floor last night - she was there with her cane off and on for several hours. The dance floor was my cousin's tennis court with a tent over it. 180 guests to celebrate a wedding. - dc 9-10-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #61. At a family event in Akron where Aunt Eleanor's family is centered. She's so youthful, 11 years younger than mother Ahdel who's 97 (see recent piece on her). I can't believe how sharp my 98 year old aunt Bruni (Brunhilda) is - reads science journals. Her name is almost the combo of her parents' and my mother's parents' names, Bruno and Hulda. In Germany I liked telling people that I was pure German on my mother's side. Her maiden name is Reich. Among the small square tiles in the Reich's entryway floor of their home built in the nineteen twenties were little swastikas. My grandfather worked at and inherited the Reich Bakery in Fort Worth. Germans are proud of their bread and so I'd proudly say I was descended from a line of German bakers. Her mother's maiden name was Smallfield. She taught society ladies fine embroidery and said she didn't believe the terrible things they were saying about that nice Mr. Hitler. It only occurred to me in recent years that my mother's parents may have felt a great shame for what German's had done to their once proud heritage. - dc 9-09-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #60. Akron is cool, overcast. - dc 9-08-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #59. Up in the air. - dc 9-07-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #58. Getting ready to go to Cleveland, Akron for six days for a family thing - mother's little sis and family are Akron based. - dc 9-06-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #57. Real Cream in Rio - Part Five 9-05-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #56. Interview with Peter Levitt - here is the link to a 16 minute conversation that was broadcast yesterday AM on CBC radio in Canada re Dogen, Shobogenzo, etc. Real Cream in Rio - Part IV Happy labor day. May we all have work and learn to enjoy life with less work, like serfs and natives. 9-04-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #55. Real Cream in Rio - Part Three Going to Akron this month the 8th through the 13th for a family event but I'll have some time - and Chicago to hang with the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate folks and their teacher, Taigen Dan Leighton, featured prominently on this site. Here's their page for that trip and dates of a couple of talks I'll be giving. If you want to contact me about any of this, just write to dchad@cuke.com. 9-03-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #54. A reader comments on giving up worldly desires and DC comments on that. In DC Misc 9-02-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #53. From nobeliefs.com: From asiteaboutnothing.net: Discovering E-Prime (PDF) Thanks Anderew A 9-01-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #52. Soy Info Center - Bill Shurtleff's life work, bigger than the universe. Check out his History of Erewon on the Free Online Books page. - and check out the real paper books on tofu, tempeh, miso. August 8-30 -11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #51. 8-29 -11 - Michael Wenger making a dragon's leap out of the City Center. Location sought for his new residence and practice place. See SFZC article on this. Go to Michael Wenger's cuke link page How to Decide by Not Deciding - Colleen Morton Busch who wrote Fire Monks on the Huff Post. Posted on Tassajara Fire page. 8-28-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #50. 8-27-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #49. Check out the incredible art of our new friend Khalila Friedman. - in cuke the arts, art art. Congratulations Jill and Riley (1st cousin once removed) 8-26-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #48. Organizing thousands of files in a bunch of different computers and hard drives so by the time I'm finished, they will all be uniform and I'll know what I have where and nothing will ever again get lost or misplaced or out of order and everything will be at right angles and shiny and clean. - dc What's really behind all those cat videos on the Internet? The shocking truth. - thanks Howie Klein 8-25-11 - On Taigen's Peace and Justice page - These three short talks by FDR are inspiring examples of Presidential leadership, well worth watching now 8-24-11 - Using the tub but have to take out boards on other side of wall to fix tiny leak in overflow. Need an access there anyway. Been sort of fluish or bugbit or sluggish or something. Nice sleeping, lying around. Reading. Movies. - dc 8-23-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #47. Expanded DC note on Shunryu Suzuki's definition of Sangha in yesterday's quote. As predicated, Mother had some comments and corrections on the tribute I wrote for her on the 13th of this month. And naturally dc had to add to that. 8-22-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #46 with a note of resistance from DC. Oh heck. The brilliant plan to insulate the tub carried out carelessly. Noticed after connecting plumbing it wasn't seated right on rigid piece. And the pipes barely fit. Tub wobbly. Might have to start over. The horror. The horror. 8-21-11 - Congratulations to Al Tribe who was also ordained as a Soto Zen priest by Lew Richmond, head teacher of the Vimala Sangha on Saturday. Just learned that. Been sort of out of touch. Having trouble with this tub plumbing. Gas to stove top now not leaking. 8-20-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #45 Congratulations to Peter Coyote who was ordained as a Soto Zen priest today by Lew Richmond, head teacher of the Vimala Sangha Meanwhile, couldn't go to the above because of unfinished projects that must get done before Katrinka returns tomorrow night. Maybe she'll stay away one more night. Hint hint. The gas connection to the new stove top leaks. Hans and Andrew will advise on that when the former comes to put in two windows in downstairs barn tomorrow. Thought it smelled, tested with soapy spray, didn't see bubbles so lit a match and a small ribbon of flame enveloped the pipe. Paul Disco taught me that trick forty years ago. Shut it off. Went to tub drain work. Complications. Stuffed insulation around the tub, cut rigid piece to go under it - so it holds heat better. Why don't they insulate tubs? This one's going to be maxed out with insulation. Got circuits that weren't working working. They were working. It was me that was broken. No problem there. Enough. Bed. - dc 8-19-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #44 Installing a bigger bathtub so drain must be redone. Into walls and ceiling below. Why did that circuit break and why can't it go on again? Can't see anything I did to cause that. Life if full of mysteries. - dc 8-18-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #43 Real Cream in Rio - Part Two 8-17-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #42 Sugoi Sekai [Wonderful World] - interesting stuff from a veteran of Japan and Zen and more. - Thanks MK 8-16-11 - First Part of the lecture from which yesterday's most important point came from - for clarification. Tozen Akiyama Roshi dharma talk on New Year, not timely I guess, but it's the first of a number of his short talks published by the Milwaukee Zen Center years ago in their newsletter. 8-15-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #41 Jeff Myers Art - and here's another link to the same site. Wow. Jeff practices with John Tarrant. Talked to him and his wife Sonja at the annual (I guess) PZI (Pacific Zen Inst) summer party. He's got a great big beautiful piece behind the altar (sort of) these days at the PZI Santa Rosa Zendo. 8-14-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #40 Seeking a Refrigerator Repairman in Rio - Part One - [renamed Real Cream in Rio] China Galland - her website - has done noble work with a cemetery in Texas. See this video clip from YouTube from which you can see other YouTube videos she's got there. 8-13-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #39
Can gaming make a better world? - Ted Talk - thanks Sami Takanen who also pointed out the audio file mix-up on shunryusuzuki.com - see 8-09-11 8-12-11 - The phrase “most important” as found in Shunryu Suzuki lectures. #38 More Better - in which I comment on Jiryu's Are Zen People Better? in his No Zen in the West blog which referred to something I'd written in my a brief review of Fire Monks which I'd written after he'd written Why I won't read Fire Monks. - DC
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What Was New
2011.from July 1st
1-05-12
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The
word of the year this year in Japan was
12-15-11
- New on the Chronicles of CTR (Chronicles of Chogyam
Trungpa Rinpoche) formerly the
Chronicles Project..jpg)
On December 18th at noon at Green Gulch
Farm, Muir Beach, CA, Ren
Getsu--Beclee Newcomer Wilson, author of Tassajara Wind will be
reading from her latest collection of poems, Winter Fruit.
Norman Fisher says of this collection, " A sweetness runs through these
quiet poems--sadness and the color of a garden, of a river rippling by, of
oak leaves and tree lichen. Things that are true, that last, that pass
away: "secrets too good to shout." 
Happy birthday
Katrinka, home today from a secret mission in Baja.
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.
I had
a great time in Chicago with the
Thoroughly
enjoyed our tour from Laurel with Taigen of the Chicago
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 
7-04-11 -
Happy birthday America and