cuke.com
- an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew
him and anything else DC feels like - originally a site for
Crooked
Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki - not crookedcuke.com
cuke.com
- an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew
him and anything else DC feels like - originally a site for
Crooked
Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki - not crookedcuke.com
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Dairyu Michael Wenger
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On Sunday March 4th there will be a meeting to discuss future plans for Dragons Leap Zendo from 3-5 pm at CIIS, room 425, 1453 Mission st in San Francisco to bring everyone up to speed with what is going on. Starting today, Dairyu's artwork will be on display at San Francisco Zen Center for the next two weeks, in the dining hall. There will be a celebratory dinner at San Francisco Zen Center on Friday, March 9th.
2-18-12 - We've done it! We've found a home for Dragons Leap Meditation Center. 20th Avenue and Quintara. We will be moved in by March 1st and we expect to begin operating later in March or early April. It is just as we had envisioned it. A place for meditation, painting, and Dharma classes. Stay tuned for more information as it occurs. We will be starting a wishlist for what we need to operate. First things first: Zafus. If you or anyone you know has extras, please contact us. After nearly 40 years, the dragon is moving We could use help preparing for the move Sunday afternoon, February 19th and 26th, from 1-5 PM at 370 Page street we will ready the launch site Please call if you can help. Get number or email from cuke.com This has been a long time coming, and I appreciate all of your help and support. We are just beginning, so let's keep going! Michael Wenger On Wednesday a group visited the SF home Michael and Barbara Wenger have found for a home and zendo. Hoitsu (son of Shunryu) and Chitose Suzuki and a few SFZC and BZC luminaries. Thanks to Clare Hollander for the lift. Here are some photos of calligraphy created on the visit. Clare Hollander took there. Click thumbnails to enlarge
Hoitsu Suzuki above was first
See DC's attempt at calligraphy 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. Wenger art The Inklings of Michael Wenger Wenger art on cuke with a brief tribute to Michael by DC Books by Michael Wenger Wenger, Michael. Thirty-three Fingers: a Collection of Modern American Koans. Clear Glass, 1994. [Small, fun, refreshing--by a priest in Suzuki's lineage, dean of the studies center at SFZC.] ---- excerpt from this book on cuke.com - excerpt on SFZC web site.
cuke page for Branching Streams with more links
Michael has edited many issues of the Wind Bell and has many contributions to the Wind Bell through the years.
1999 letter of support from Michael Wenger for DC's Cucumber Project 1998 fundraising letter from Suzuki archiving sent by DC includes Wenger A question from Wenger about the position of tenken A notice for Michael's Zen film festival another note about Michael's Zen film festival
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Michael
arrived at Zen Center shortly after Shunryu Suzuki died but he has come to know
Suzuki well. He has edited many Suzuki lectures and for years was head of the
Zen Center's Study Center and archives. For years Michael was the person at Zen
Center whom I related to in working on the Shunryu Suzuki lectures and archives.
Ten years ago Michael oversaw the project to make archival reel-to-reel copies
and archival cassette copies of the Suzuki lecture tapes with Mark Watts as
engineer and Bill Redican as project manager. The next phase of that project was
for Bill to create the verbatim transcripts of those tapes. Michael was on the
committee of the Shunryu Suzuki Legacy Project in 2008 in which the archive was
further organized, digitalized, and made more available to students and the
public.
Dragon Leap Hermitage - coming soon
