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Notes
Index for book --- Names with links
For more on people mentioned herein, go to Names with Links
Unattributed notes by DC
Tassajara Stories
The Wind Bell publications of the SFZC - Tassajara excerpts
Cover - group photo - also in end matter with names p. 239
Front Matter
p.iv - Also by David Chadwick
Books and Audiobooks
Other Writings
Podcasts
Songs and albums
p.vii - Dedication - more on those the book is dedicated to
Epigraph
We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and we are not.
–Heraclitus
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Ephesus. He saw reality as being in a constant state of flux, governed by a principle he called Logos—a rational order underlying all change, sometimes likened to reason or divine order.
He believed that everything is in motion and nothing remains the same. He argued that opposites are necessary for harmony and transformation (life and death, day and night).
His philosophy contrasts with thinkers like Parmenides, who saw reality as unchanging. Heraclitus had a cryptic, poetic style, earning him the nickname The Obscure in later tradition.
Preface
p.xiii -Ālaya-vijñāna (आलयविज्ञान) is a key concept in Yogācāra Buddhism, referring to the “storehouse consciousness.” It is considered the deepest level of consciousness, where karmic seeds (or impressions) are stored and later ripen into experiences, thoughts, and perceptions.
Chapter One - Arriving
Capsized Boys (Summer, 1964)
p.3 - Ed Brown wrote:
Alan saved my life because
he was sensible enough to stay
with the canoe when we found
ourselves in the water alongside,
while I grew impatient after what
five ten fifteen minutes, and thinking
I was a strong swimmer, began swimming.
I was a strong swimmer but not with levis
and heavy hiking boots!
The Scouts (Spring, 1966)
p.7 (and other pages) Chew's Ridge should be Chews Ridge - it's on the Errata page now to fix ASAP
The Becks
p.10 - The first time Richard Baker brought Suzuki in - This wasn't the first time. Richard says the first time, they drove in, looked around, didn't meet anyone, and drove out. That's when SR danced in joy ahead of the car on the road at Black Butte Summit on the way out. I told Richard I'd get that fixed in subsequent printings and create a conversation between him and me in the 3rd book where it's corrected again.
Richard’s Fortune
p.10
The Horse Pasture
Ed and Bread
years later, Ed had lunch with Alan Hooker at the SFZC's Greens Restaurant
A note at the end of the book says that the detailed description of how Ed made the bread came from interviews with him and possibly from material he sent me. We've had so much communication it's hard to remember.
Monte Cristo
Cosmic Consciousness
Cleaning First
Haiku Zendo
Semi-Hippy
P.19 - Road Island should be Rhode Island - in Errata to fix ASAP
Draft Dodging
pp.20-23 - Richard Baker told me as I recall he stayed up all night, rolled in the dirt in a park (Central Park?). He was standing in his underwear being questioned by - maybe a psychiatrist or doctor and pointed over to the other guys in their underwear and said, "You're not going to let them hurt me are you?"
Surely more but I can't remember. I'll ask him in Germany. Anyway, he was successful and got an exemption.
The part where I'm sitting in the room with the rejects, like everything else in this story, is exactly what happened. There's a similar scene in Arlo Guthrie's Alices Restaurant.
Further comments on escaping the draft
Bush Street
Sokoji Days
p.25 - loading and unloading mail bags was actually for those who'd taken another civil service test so the manager was cheating a little when he'd get me to do it.
p. 26 - honorific roshi
The Watts letter saying we should call Suzuki "roshi" and not reverend or sensei came in the fall of 1966 while Suzuki was in Japan. Richard Baker says that he and some others started calling Suzuki "roshi" earlier than that when Don Allen returned from Japan and told them they should call Suzuki "roshi." Right now - 2025- that's what he remembers but he was doing the Wind Bells back then and the Watts letter and Suzuki's reaction was in the Wind Bell.
-----See Titles of Respect from Thank You and OK!
-----on the title roshi from Crooked Cucumber
p.36 - See my comments on the Sokoji zazen schedule
Inescapable Eyes
The Site
p. 30 - See the whole A SITE FOR A ZEN MEDITATION CENTER IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS brochure plus others and Suzuki's sumi circle on the poster for the fundraising art show Mike Dixon put together at the Fundraising Posters and Brochures page.
p.30 - Suzuki drawing the enso for Mike Dixon's art show fundraiser I wrote originally for the 2nd edition of Crooked Cucumber - available only in the audiobook and in German and on cuke.com. I just copied and pasted it in from there as I recall.
I don't know what happened to the enso Suzuki signed and gave me.
Crooked Cucumber mentions the fundraising benefits done by Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, and Ali Akbar Khan but this book does not. The sequel does though.
p.31 - "I had a little trust fund..." - Those were the days. Now days we get by and this book got written because of kind and generous donations to Cuke Archives.
A Conversation
Rockwell’s Performance (October 22, 1966)
Photo of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell speaking in San Francisco, Oct. 22, 1966. He co-opted the 'Black Power' with his 'White Power' slogan. He was shouted down by the crowd, and police escorted his sound truck away before Rockwell finished his speech.
Photo of the event - from here
Ominous Thumbtacks
p. 37 - Zenefit poster - see large here
p. 38 - "one call rule" - depending on the place and circumstances it can go from no calls to many. The one right that is most universal is the right to an attorney but usually there's the right to let someone know. Check it out online. Various posts on it.
p.41 - LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was made illegal in the mid-1960s, first in the U.S. and then internationally:
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California was the first U.S. state to ban it — effective October 6, 1966. The U.S. federal government classified LSD as a Schedule I controlled substance in 1968. Internationally, LSD was placed under the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances in 1971, making it illegal in most countries.
Kathy Cook
p.42 - "He told her Jungian psychology seemed much closer to the spirit of Zen than Freudian." - I remember Ken Wilber writing about who was closer. A summary of that.
Lost in the Wilderness
p.43 - Marin-an, Horse Grove Hermitage - Crooked Cucumber mistakenly called it Horse Pasture Hermitage. Corrected in 2nd edition.
p.44 - drink from the stream - this is before we were aware of Giardia. I continued drinking from the stream after I was aware when I was at Tassajara for a visit or ten days as a student.
Loring Palmer
The Deal
p.45 - benefits - Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, Ali Akbar Khan benefits in 67 - coming up next book - see posters and brochures from the fundraising efforts
p.46 - Richard Baker on the deal - Recently (August 2025), he said it was Bob and him alone.
"So we sat down finally just the two of us at his house, nobody else. There was no other place, there was no group of people or anything."
I'll stick with Anna's memory. She said it was the final deal was at the Japanese restaurant in SF on Van Ness. She said she didn't say anything so there's no significant difference. But Bob and Richard met a number of times, maybe again after the one Anna remembers but maybe it was before.
I'll grill Richard more on it in Germany.
Teamwork
El Camino – February 1967
p.48 - Gilroy, garlic capital of the world, no longer is a center for garlic growing but still is for processing, and in 2025 the Garlic Festival returned after a break of some years.
p.50 - Tassajara Lane - I made this up for clarity. I don't remember it having any name but for the book it needed a name to distinguish it from Tassajara Road.
Demolition Days
Acid Trip Anfänger
Ready or Not
Chapter Two – Preparing
The Vanguard (March 1967)
Bob and Sandy Watkins
p.61 - Bob Watkins read in a book by D.T. Suzuki there was a school of sitting. I never associated DTS with zazen and wondered where Bob read that and found there were many possible sources for that. Here's one.
“Believing that meditation was the principal means by which the Buddha himself gained enlightenment, the Chan, or Zen, sect has always emphasized zazen (sitting meditation) as its core experience.” source
Peter Schneider
Spring Arrivals
Many Changes
P. 68 - small creek - the creek running down with Tassajara Road has no name according to David Rogers who knows all the names. Sometime in the late seventies or so, it started being called Cabarga Creek. The name stuck. Tom Cabarga on how the small creek got its name.
The Essence of the Grain
Comments on Suzuki and brown rice
Bob Halpern
Ear Ache
Deadly Roofs
The Haramaki
Cool Lemonade
The Bishop
Food Tripping
p.76 - Fred Rohe New Age Natural Foods
Taizan Maezumi
The Bishop’s Disciples
Joshu Sasaki
The Koan
A Reading
The Pinwheel
p.87 - plans to build an observatory at Chews Ridge.
Mysterious Darkness
p.88 - Richard Baker said he'd met the same man with a peg leg
Tresidder Lecture
p.88 - Bob McKim obituary
Car Talk
p. 90 - Photo with Phillip, Shunryu, Mitsu, unknown, DC, Richard Baker taken behind Suzuki's cabin
The Chicken (May 1, 1967)
Exploding Streetlights
Sharing Tassajara
Nixed Nudity
The Legend
p.96 - the mural with the legend and other painted faux Indians
Old-Timers
P.99 - "They had it for a year and realized it was a mistake. We got it from them.” The Becks and Roscoes also got the Horse Pasture and the Pines in that deal for 150K. He ended up selling those three pieces for ten times that.
p. 99 - At the end of this chanter on the succession of owners of Tassajara, Robert Beck says, “I’d met Richard before, but I first met Suzuki Roshi up on the road a year ago. I was there waiting for them to come in—at the first place on the road from which one can almost see Tassajara—where Tassajara is a few thousand feet down and miles away—where you start to come down after you pass the Church Creek Road on your way in. There’s a place where you can pull out. That’s where he looked from."
I assumed Robert was talking about Hotel Point on Black Butte Summit. There's a great view toward the ocean. But just below it at the first switchback in the road, there's a more spacious pullout. One can walk a short ways from there to look further down into the mountain slopes where Tassajara lies at the very bottom. You can see a little further down from there than Hotel Point. Maybe that's where they looked from. It would have been a little more trouble but I don't think they were in any hurry.
Monterey Pop (June 18, 1967)
P.100 - thanks Stuart Lachs for the Monterey Pops story.
Poets Visit
P.101 basic facts from Wind Bell
P.101 - on the Poetry Conference
The Bauls
Basic facts from Wind Bell but not the poem
The Philosopher and the Gardener
Paul Lee quoted as calling founding of Zen Mt. Center, “an important event in the history of religion in America”
Full quote from Paul Lee in Crooked Cucumber, originally from the first, fall 1966, fundraising brochure.
Banana Split
Our New Friend (June 23, 1967
Chapter Three – Opening
Zenshinji Prep – July 3, 1967
p.107 - Zenshinji - the Japanese Zen name of the temple. Literally, Zen Mind Temple. On his 1966 trip to Japan, Suzuki had met with the abbot, told him about the plans to start a temple in the wilderness (at the time we were raising money to buy the Horse Pasture Richard Baker translated it Zen Heart-Mind Temple. It is the same character, shin, that is heart in the heart sutra. The kanji is said to represent a heart. By itself it can mean emotional or spiritual heart and is used in combination with other characters when it stands for the physical heart. It's also the same character used to translate mind in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. We don't say beginner's heart-mind. I think it's best to use mind for shin unless there's some contextual reason to use heart. But Baker would say Zen Heart-mind Temple and printed it that way in the Wind Bells.
I'll ask Baker if it's more formal than Zen Mountain Center or how we should consider those two names. Tassajara is more like a nickname I think though that's what it's generally called. It's an oversight that I didn't include that in the book and the meaning. I'll put it in the next book
Zenshinji kanji by Suzuki from Wind Bell
p.108 "These were gift from Shumucho, Soto Zen Headquarters, which were engraved with “for Zenshinji, in the time of Shunryu.” - Fall 67 WB Time Sounds p.9 for more on han, bells, drum and clarifies which were gifts.
from Wind Bell Fall 1967 Zen Mt. Center Report and more
cuke.com/pdf-2013/wind-bell/67-02-04.pdf
Another Gift
Planting a Seedling
No Big Deal
p.110 - Tibetan Learning Center replaced with "A Tibetan monastic community"
Geshe Wangyal established the monastery itself in 1958, in Washington, New Jersey.
• It was originally called Labsum Shedrub Ling (“Place of Study and Practice of the Three Vehicles”)—a traditional Tibetan monastic name.
• In 1975, it was incorporated as the Tibetan Learning Center, with a broader educational and public outreach mission.
Richard and Shunryu
Tangaryo Daze
p. 112 - Richard said tangaryo meant "waiting room" so surely either Suzuki or Kobun had told him that. That's what I've always heard. But I doubt it's the literal meaning. More on tangaryo
The Schedule
p. 116 - 'he turned to the book and read the title. “Buddhist Wisdom Books: The Diamond Sutra, the Heart Sutra. George Allen and Unwin Ltd.”'
Looks like the actual title in the 1958 edition was Buddhist Wisdom Books: Containing The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra. Originally I'd used the current title I got by a web search. - Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra. Then changed the title before the subtitle to Buddhist Wisdom Books: as per the 1958 edition bookcover on the cuke bibliography page. But then upon further inquiry it turned out the name on the title page was the actual title listed above
Taking Care
Don't remember the order or exact time when what work was done - it's all approximate
Ango Samu
p.119 Photo - Bob Halpern, Shunryu, Phillip tea break
Hard Practice
Suzuki the Alchemist
Peanut Allergy
First Sesshin
-----p. 123 - Kobun helped too. Mel Weitsman remembered it as Kobun leading it but others including me remember Maezumi who had more seniority and status. And Mel's memory was frequently off. But Kobun likely joined in on the zazen throughout the sesshin when he could.
Axes and Saws
A Scolding
"Don't forget why you came here." - thanks Stuart Lachs
Village Voice
pp. 125-6 - Jack Goddard "lived in Big Sur and in April had hiked in to do a story on what was going on at Tassajara."
Jack returned as a guest in the 2nd part of the guest season. He noted that Dan’s hair was gone as was that of a lot of us. He walked back and forth from his home in Big Sur by trail and not necessarily the shortest route. He was a loner and knew the woods well. It was somewhat dangerous for him because he had bleeding ulcers that would act up at times.
Here's the article from Wind Bell 67-02-3
Liz Wolf
p.127 - back trouble from carrying heavy pots while serving. Alan Winter had to leave Tassajara the next year because of the same problem. We were young and foolish and often had a poor sense of health and safety limits. Every time I read that I think how we shouldn't have allowed pots that full to be use. I don't remember this being a problem later on. I suppose we wised-up.
Bulgarian Salt Loaf
p.127 - "The zazen period at eleven was just ending. The brief noon service would start in a minute." - That first practice period there was a lot of experimenting with schedules. The zazen period could have started before or after eleven and thus service and lunch at various times. See first practice period schedules Bob Watkins saved (PDF one and two) both with zazen before 11am and one in A Brief History of Tassajara with no zazen before mid-day service.
Four and Nine
p. 129 Basic H® — a biodegradable cleaning concentrate made by Shaklee, often referred to as a kind of “soap” but actually a multipurpose cleaner. It’s been around since the 1960s, marketed as safe, natural, and environmentally friendly.
As referred to earlier, p.77, Maezumi's wife Charleen had introduced me to it. I got a gallon from a sales rep in Salinas and then I become an official Shaklee salesman under her--multi-level marketing like Amway--so I could get large drums of it wholesale for Tassajara.
In 1967, Shaklee opened a major research and development facility in Emeryville, California, right next to Berkeley and just across from San Francisco. I'd see it driving by. So one day I stopped and met with the director or something and told him they should make a bigger point in marketing their products that they're good for the environment. He said he'd look into it and thanked me. I drove on.
p.129 - "joined him under the covers." -- When Stuart Lachs told me this story, I thought it happened at Tassajara. But when I checked with him, he said it happened in the city. I left it anyway. The location is the least important part of the story. Lucky guy.
Kobun to the Narrows
p.129 - Kobun wore geta
p.130 - drink from the stream - this is before we were aware of Giardia. I continued drinking from the stream after I was aware when I was at Tassajara for a visit or ten days as a student.
A Late Call
Like a Rolling Stone
Second Sesshin Approaching
The Big Pain
p.135 - "Stepping into the hot water of the plunge, feeling it
reach higher and higher to the neck and then over the head."
I always noticed Japanese priests did not put their head under water. They also held their hands over their genitals.
Deflecting Angry Birds
Notable Visitations
p.138 - tarantulas--"but you can actually pick them up"
for the 2nd printing I hope to change that to "but I've seen people
pick them up --have them as pets."
They can bite though it's rare and can shoot sharp hairs from their abdomens out their back legs if threatened.
Sesshin Song
Mantric Awakening
p.141 - when Tim told me the mantra, he used "Parasamgate." That's the Sanskrit spelling and pronunciation. Back in 1967 we were only chanting the Heart Sutra in Japanese, thus "harasamgate." When we started chanting it in English in 1970, the Sanskrit pronunciation was used.
Japanese - gyate gyate hara gyate hara sō gyate bodhi sowaka
Sanskrit - gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā
See the chant card for the Heart Sutra we used at Sokoji
Shosan with Suzuki
Great Treasure
Chapter Four – Resuming
Noah the Noble
Dining Room
p. 150 - "One of the last things the dining room crew did at night was to turn the heat down low on the coffee machine." - But we couldn't turn it down too early because people, mainly guests, were still drinking coffee till 9 or 10 pm. So the fire watch started turning the heat down on the coffee machine - not the dining room staff. But often someone on the dining room staff would do it anyway because they were much more aware of it and less likely to forget. I know in my case, as head of the dining room, I always had the coffee machine in mind at least a little bit.
Fly Herding
Routines and Surprises
Dharma Combat
this account comes almost entirely from the Wind Bell
p.154 - Kwatz! - 喝 - this is an early rendering by translators from the Japanese katsu! which meant shout!. It in turn came from the Chinese hè pronounce like Huh! made famous by Linji (Rinzai) - cutting like a sword through delusion. It was a term known to most of us. When I heard it I thought of comedian Steve Allen on his early tonight type show suddenly and spontaneously running around the set and studio yelling "Schmock! Schmock!
p.154 - Another student asked, “Why did Suzuki Roshi come to San Francisco?” - this is a takeoff from the famous Zen koan "Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?"
The Clattering Generator
p.155 - Clarke Mason said the hand cranks were gone by the time he came. The generators had them when I arrived and I had to start one sometimes and well remember that singular experience but obviously, before Clarke came, they were replaced with electric starters like for cars.
Charlotte Selver
p.157 - Richard Baker's poem was edited for the book. It's slightly edited. Here's the poem in its entirety with another one as they appeared in the book.
The Levitskys
Other Guests
pp. 160-1 - Mr. Porter of the Watsonville Domino Club - At that time Porter was the most prominent name in Watsonville. The Porter Building is a city landmark. W.H. Porter was the president of the Pajaro Valley Bank and played a major role in the city’s early development. The Mr. Porter I knew was, I assume, his son.
Topless Vegetables label from crate
The Outside World
p.161 - Stuart Brand later said he regretted not trademarking "Whole Earth." I thought of that when sometime around the mid 1990s I was shopping at the Whole Earth Access store in San Rafael, part of a chain not owned by Brand, and stood next to Brand in the checkout line. I knew him well enough to say hello but didn't, allowing the serendipity of be moment to be undisturbed.-dc
The Roscoes
Robert Remembers
p.165 - “How much did you buy it for?” I asked.
“About $150,000” - that surely included the Horse Pasture and the Pines.
p.166 - closing of Fred Roscoe's Discovery Bookshop
The Zapper
Pecking Pigeons
Aphids and Ruthie
Esalen Institute
p.174 - a lifetime pass to Esalen. - I lost the wallet it was in in the 80s I think. I realized that when I stopped to get a bite to eat on the way to Tassajara. I called the theater and was told the throw wallets away. What a strange and disturbing response. I remember I didn't have any trouble getting to Tassajara but I don't know how. Years later when Steve Donovan was president of Esalen Institute, I told him about the happy receiving and sad loss of the card and he offered to give me another. I never took him up on it.
Barry and the Barb
Here's the article from Wind Bell 67-02-3--2nd one down - an article from the San Jose Mercury News is below it.
p.175 - New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community published in 1975 by Paul Kagen.It's on archive.com. His materials are at Archives at Yale. Read more.
Kobun Chino
p. 176 - "I found it curious he (Kobun) thought white noodles were healthy." - Udon noodles is what we were eating - the flat white wheat noodles. But I bet he thought soba - buckwheat noodles were healthy too. Chat GPT says: A monk from a Zen Buddhist tradition would most likely be referring to soba, which aligns with traditional shojin ryori (Buddhist vegetarian cuisine) and is considered a balanced, natural food.
Dealing with Demons
Bookmarked Path
p.183 - "The Way of Zazen by Rindo Fujimoto... was available only in Suzuki’s Sokoji office." - as far as I knew - and that's only for the West Coast. They would of course been available from Elsie Mitchell and the Cambridge Buddhist Association. Whole 25-page booklet
pp. 183-4 -"one thing that bothered me about Conze’s book on the Heart and Diamond sutras. Rather than buying copies of the book, we each got a cheap photocopied version." - I just guessed they were photocopied. Richard Baker now (25-08) says probably Henry did them. He meant Henry Louie who owned East-West Printers had been printing the Wind Bells for Zen Center and was friendly and helpful. So it looks like they were made with offset printing at East-West Printers. Baker also wrote that Conze was okay with us copying them, but now he realizes we should have bought the books.
-----Found this on Henry Louie, a mention in his brother-in-law's obit.
Three Scholars
Ernst Benz came in 68, not 67, I think.
Margot Patterson Doss
p. 186 - Don Allen - Don had me take out of Crooked Cucumber for the 2nd printing that he was an original board member of the ZC (not yet named SFZC) in 1962. He said Richard listed him without asking him.
Margo Doss gave Suzuki a Cymbidium orchid Philip Whalen remembered. That's interesting because Philip wasn't around Zen Center back then except for a few times. He knew Doss though so maybe she told him.
See SRC017 and SRC007photos of Suzuki with orchids.
Ruth Fuller Sasaki
this account comes almost entirely from the Wind Bell
Dorothy Schalk
pp. 188-9 - "Before Tassajara became an item, it looked like Suzuki would send Phillip to help with her group and Suzuki would be spending more time in New England, the home of transcendentalism. Now Schalk could see that wouldn’t happen any time soon. She was on her way to practice at a temple in Japan. Maybe she’d meet a priest there who would be their teacher." - She did. She met Kosho Uchiyama. See below.
-----The Valley Zendo is what I think of as what grew out of Dorothy Schalk's dream to create a practice place. I keep thinking Vermont because that's where she was but the land she bought was in Massachusetts. Here's a message from Gerald McFarland about Schalk, Suzuki, and the Valley Zendo
Diamond Sutra
After the Cadillac
Elsie Mitchell
Grand Occasion
pp.193-194 - Suzuki's letter to Elsie - 64-09-09
Landmarks on the Road
pp.197-199 - Also a note in the book's end matter - Thanks David Rogers for a detailed account of the road's landmarks and names which I combined with my memories, especially those with Fred Tuttle on the road.
pp.197-8 the Bathtub - After some years a tree fell on the tub and broke it and then a slide obliterated it so we could no longer identify that spot as “the Bathtub.”
The lookout tower at Chews Ridge - with Fred on the porch
Chapter Five – Continuing
Working with Stones (November 1967)
Building Walls
pp.203-205 As it says in a note in the end matter of the book, Walls - sources Paul Discoe's Zen Architecture and www.dirtcheapbuilder.com/...
p.204 - Geoffrey Barrett - structural engineer. We used him for building the Courtyard Cabin in 1975 and later at Green Gulch Farm. He was excellent at demonstrating something had the equivalent strength of the code specs. I learned that in building, the structural engineer is essential, the architect not always. Obituary for Geoffrey Barrett
p 204 - "Dodson agreed and gave Tassajara three years to complete construction of the new kitchen." ==check Zen Architecture - that's what it says as I recall
the photo of work on the kitchen is from 1968 summer
-----Wind Bell 67-02 - The present kitchen is located in what was once the staff kitchen and the proposed unit is more than twice as large. The students have already begun working on it and it must be finished by next May if Tassajara is to be reopened to guests, according to county health department requirements
DC - obviously the health department changed their requirement as well - it took four years
p. 205 Photo and another copy of the same Photo - Suzuki, Discoe, Phillip working on walls but it's in 1968, not 67.
Making Robes
p207 - Suzuki's belief that continuing to sit lotus will strengthen her knee is what he grew up with in Japan. Endure through pain--and he didn't distinguish between normal zazen pain and pain from an injury. Japanese baseball had the same approach --double down on it if you have an injury. Western sports medicine emphasizes resting what's damaged. I understand Japanese baseball has shifted toward Western sports science somewhat.
The Banker
Jane Runk
p.212 - Red plastic ball. Jane Schneider sees the red plastic ball for years and Richard Weekly, a poet in her recent time Northridge, LA group pointed out that all her paintings have a red ball in them.
A Danish Carpenter
Noh Answers
pp.216-217 - the Jellybean story was also told in Crooked Cucumber with me being the student who went to Suzuki. The reason I said it was me is that I had received an email from someone I picked up hitchhiking who said I'd told them that story and he thought I'd said it was me. After the book came out I realized it was Bob Halpern and not me and I wondered why I didn't realize that because it's not the sort of thing I'd do.
There's another story in book two I retell because of the same sort of reason. Someone told me I asked a question to visiting Roshis and it was a good story. Late Les Kaye told me it was he who asked the question. I felt bad about that one and corrected it (and the Jelly Bean Story) in the 2nd edition of Crooked Cucumber. Also it's told correctly in the next Tassajara Stories book. And I included it as a vignette in Zen Is Right Now. Here's an entry for it on cuke.com's Brief Memories.
All Shining
p. 219 - Photo - Bob Watkins with Suzuki break from stone work under the bridge over the small creek by the dorm
Evil Desire
p.220 - "but can you survive?" - told by Sterling Bunnell
Waterfall Descent
Rohatsu Sesshin
p.222 - Durand the ship captain wore battery operated heated socks and had condiments in his sleeve for meals. - Durand Kiefer sat at the Los Altos Haiku Zendo. He started a zendo dojo practice place of some sort I think at his home or adjoining his home on Bear Creek Road in Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz mountains. Gai-fu Feng was involved with it as a teacher. I remember Durand told me he'd created a nonprofit foundation for it and then his board took it away from him. I find on Wikipedia that Gai-fu Feng 'founded an intentional Taoist community called “Stillpoint” on Bear Creek Road in Los Gatos in 1966, and taught tai chi widely in the Bay Area (also at Esalen).' I guess that's the place Durand lost that he told me about. He was a character. He bought the material to make our oryoki (meal bowls sets) cloths. When we left Tassajara we washed, dried, and put away our oryoki clothes. Durand refused, saying he'd done his part by buying them.
Saying Goodbye
Cowtown Holidays
p.231 - Alden Truesdell - Here are over 600 lectures of his lectures or writings as sent by Warren Lynn - Spiriticity
p.229 - Geometry teacher Mr. Smith - I don't really remember his name but I remember him. Good natured guy. I remember him drawing a circle and dividing it into unequal pieces to make some point. He said, "Now here we have a piece of pie," and he drew a slice about 1/8 of it and said, "This is my serving." Then he drew a line creating a section of about 1/4 of the pie and said, "And this is my wife's helping."
Dawning of 1968
End Matter
Acknowledgements
Notes
p.239 group photo with names - follow the link to see it presented serval ways with and without names.
p. 242 - Poster with Suzuki enso, sumi circle, for benefit art show - see it better - The poster with enso