12-31-14
- The first volume of the Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki,
which is on Zen and edited by
Richard Jaffee, was published by University of California Press
in November. Volume 2, which contains a selection of Suzuki's writings
on Pure Land Buddhism, edited by James Dobbins, will be published in
January. Richard is the general editor for the Selected Works, which will
be four volumes in total, as well as editor of the forthcoming one-volume
Suzuki Reader. The
link to the publisher's website.
Richard Jaffe cuke page
Shunryu
Suzuki answers a question on Christianity. - another excerpt from his
lectures. And today marks the half-way point in reading through the most
complete collection of them as presented on
shunryusuzuki.com.
Poor Nyoman. I did something inappropriate.
- more in Saunters
12-30-14
-
Remembering Myogen Steve Stuckey - That's a link to the SFZC memorial
page for Steve and announcement of a memorial ceremony tonight and
tomorrow for him. He was a dear friend and former chief abbot of the SF
Zen Center who died on New Year's Eve last year. His illness and death
came about quickly, disturbingly, a matter of a few months. He was
especially well loved and appreciated. He was also a strong supporter of
the work represented on this site and shunryusuzuki.com. He called me
right after becoming abbot in February of 2007 to offer his support and
set up a meeting. After a half year of this work being regarded as an
abbot's project, he came to agree with me that it's best for the cuke
archives etc to be independent of any connection to the SFZC other than as
a no strings contribution - as this work always has been. Everyone's
happier that way. Shunryusuzuki.com was in no small way an outcome of his
persistent encouragement and support. Right up to his illness I sent him
regular brief reports and Ccs of key interactions. His personal monthly
financial contribution was also significant. Our friendly and social
interactions were mainly in prior decades and I remember them fondly. He
had that quality Shunryu Suzuki had of being strict with himself in an
easy-going way - and tolerant of others. I miss him. - DC
Steve's cuke page
Interdependency excerpts from a Shunryu Suzuki
lecture.
Go to YouTube and check out Sasha Stevenson on How to Act Indonesian
- many great skits.
-
posted in
Saunters
12-29-14 -
What to do
about anger - A question and answer from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture.
The
shamanic origins of Christmas - was posted on a young Bali friend's
FaceBook page. I think they're making psychedelic mushrooms here illegal
starting in January. I remember them being sold in shakes to tourists
twenty-two years ago and I hear that still goes on. But no more. Bad law.
Harmful law. Religious persecution law. Not one that applies to me though.
- dc
-
posted in
Saunters
One way to look at the body with its nervous system and brain is as a
filter of awareness assisting us in our pretending. -
Kabumpkan
12-28-14
- A
curious beginning to this Shunryu Suzuki lecture
Some photos from our
trip to the Jimbaran fish market taken last February. Our landlords,
David and Widya, drove Katrinka and me and two others who were staying in
studios here - Lenli (sp?) and Grahame who took the photos. Katrinka's got
some too. I got one off the web yesterday because Grahame's didn't show
the scale of the place. Katrinka has some deep in her photo files that
show that maybe which if so will add later. This is one of the things to
do we recommend to visitors. - dc
By Rebecca Solnit, Guardian UK - thanks Taigen
- posted in
Climate Change
12-27-14
-
Stealing your teacher's wife? - today's question and answer from a
Shunryu Suzuki lecture.
First piece of advice learned from visiting Malaysian woman
friend. When you go to the open markets, don't buy meat or fish with no
flies as it likely means that they've been doused with formaldehyde. But I
find it hard to believe they do that at the vast Jimbaran fish market
- photo off web to left. Seems it's all moving in and out too quick. -
posted in
Saunters
Further comment on yesterday's post on The Science Delusion by
Robert Sheldrake.
-
more in dc misc
12-26-14 - On
shunryusuzuki.com there
are now 143 suggested edited versions of the verbatim transcripts for
those who want an alternative to the raw material.
Read more
on this.
Heard a Ted Talk about The Science Delusion by Rupert Sheldrake
and thought it's about time. Then I discovered that it was yanked from the
Ted Talk list. Didn't surprised me. Read that as a Ted Talk it got 35,000
views and as a banned Ted Talk it's now been viewed by over half a
million. It's the sort of stuff I think when I watch the great science
shows I have linked to. Love em but to me they really buy into the
material realm as all there is unless there's more material realm. Not
saying I agree with anything in particular that Sheldrake says either. -
DC -
See
it on Rupert Sheldrakes site with relevant links and follow-up
On YouTube
Ted Talk Conversations on this - really interesting
- posted in
dc misc
Zen Freethinker Issue 35 - 1991
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
On Xmas we joined others for some dragon fruit smoothies and
more sips and nibbles at a lovely villa Suzanne Wilder was staying as a
guest. Check out her website and cookbooks at
Wilder by the Dozen. -
posted in
Saunters
12-25-14 - Please choose appropriate celebratory greeting from the list
below.
Happy Chanukah.
Happy Holidays.
Merry Christmas.
Merry War on Christmas
Selamat Hari Natal
Other.
That next to last one Indonesian. Above photo an Indonesian church.
Christmas is a national holiday in inclusive Indonesia. The beach was
crowded with locals in the water on the sand, shopping, coming, going,
motorbikes parked in packed rows. Searched for an image to show that but
only came up with those with Europeans or near empty ideal beach scenes
reminiscent of car ads with only one car on the road, even if it's in a
city. - posted in
Saunters
Christmas,
New Years, Beginner's Mind - today's excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki
shosan, question answer ceremony.
12-24-14
-
Fire Seeking Fire with a humorous interruption
- today's excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki
lecture.
Time to wrap presents.
- posted in
Saunters
Lists are a big deal on the Internet because people go to them and
thus advertising revenues go up for the sites that use them. Here's on
we enjoyed from the Huff Post - and we scored high -
Eight Things that Lead to a Lasting Marriage.
- dc - posted in
Misc
12-23-14
- River Network
- connecting people, saving rivers
Go to the online hub of a
network of more than 2,000 state, regional and local grassroots
organizations whose primary mission is protecting our most vital natural
resource – water.
Anything else you're
interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and
drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. ~Carl Sagan
Here's their
Donate page
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Docho
Roshi, who are you? - today's excerpt from shosan, a
question and answer ceremony with Shunryu Suzuki.
Feelin good these days. The low energy coughing
thing has mostly disappeared since acupuncture and Chinese medicine (see
Saunters 12-09-14). I do not know
if that's why or it was gonna go away anyway. I did appreciate my Aussie
friend's treatment. He said exactly what I thought - that if I go to a
hospital they'll just give me antibiotics which won't do anything but
increase my resistance to them. So that was good but pricey. I knew I had
to find a cheap local source for next time. Bali Bill drew me a map to
where there are a number of Chinese herb shops. He said it always works
for him. Walks in, says "hati" for liver or whatever and a short eighty
year old woman gives him a mix of herbs that costs a few bucks. -
posted in
Saunters
12-22-14 -
Things as
they are as it is - today's excerpts with comment from a Shunryu
Suzuki lectures
Photo is some sort of
procession with a lot of older women from Sokoji I guess or the
Japanese-American community anyway. There's Bill Kwong, Grahame Petchey,
Phillip Wilson in back and maybe Pauline Petchey in front of Phillip-
in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive -
Click on thumbnail to enlarge. - DC
The heavy hand of religious police in Aceh (The furthest NW province
of Indonesia, quite far from Bali - 3600 Kilometers/ 2200 miles) -
Aljazeera
- posted in
Saunters
12-21-14 -
Remembering
Kyogen Carlson who died on September 18th of this year. Just
learned. He was co-founder and co-abbot of Dharma Rain Center in Portland
with his wife Gyokuko. Gyate gyate paragyate parasam gyate bodhi svaha!
- posted in Sangha News
Today's excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture. -
Buddha Buddha Buddha Buddha
Incidentally, about yesterday's post on horrific trash
on the beach here in Bali, that's not where we are in Sanur, that's over
on the west side of the southern peninsula. Not sure how far the trash
extends west. There were little tiny white specs in the ocean water here
recently and I wondered if they were plastic or from flowers or what and
Katrinka went in (we go separately to have someone with our stuff) and
she concluded after closer inspection than I did that they were fish
eggs. She snorkled and said there were also lots of tiny new fishies in
the water.
- posted in
Saunters
12-20-14 -
Unfathomable Depths: Drawing Wisdom for Today from a
Classical Zen Poem
By Sekkei
Harada
Translated by: Daigaku
Rumme
Simon and Shuster page
Amazon page
Today's excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture. -
The
Four Noble Truths in an unusual order.
Once again ---
The
Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shores
Mountains
of Trash Wash Ashore in Kuta in Seasonal Blight on Bali’s Shores
- thanks
Katrinka - posted in
Saunters
12-19-14
- What do you
mean by making your best effort on each instant? - Today's excerpt
from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture.
As for the photo, that's Ryogen Yoshimura, Jean Ross, Shunryu Suzuki,
Dan Welch, Peter Schneider at Tassajara around 1970.
- SR0112 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive -
Click on thumbnail to enlarge.
Fight for New Indonesia- thanks Brian Victoria
- posted in
Saunters
12-18-14
-
Shunryu Suzuki's use of the word "should."
- with some excerpts from Shunryu Suzuki lectures.
That's Dainin Katagiri in front follow by Shunryu Suzuki
and then Togen Sumi I think, bishop of Soto Zen in US (for Japanese
Americans) and priest of Zenshuji in LA. Not sure who's next back there -
Peter Schneider maybe or Jerome Peterson. But on the left there seems to
be a priest in brocade. Could that be Tatsugami? - in the old Tassajara
zendo. Some ceremony. SR0086 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive -
Click on thumbnail to enlarge.
Zen Freethinker Issue 34 - 1991
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Back to a Burmese Prison by Choice - to teach meditation - NYTimes
- thanks Doug Reville -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
David Padwa on Shunryu Suzuki's
funeral.
12-17-14 - Today's excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture -
Shunryu Suzuki tells a story about Ian Kishizawa, Suzuki's second
teacher. This is from the end of a lecture entered into the archive a
couple of years ago. Just realized it was a story about Kishizawa while
reading through Suzuki transcripts. Transcriber couldn't understand Suzuki
saying "Kishizawa" and had written "Komozawa??" and in preparing for the
archive I had just looked it over quickly and not realized what was there.
- DC
It's
Galungan in Bali, a holiday of the victory of dharma over adharma or
not-dharma. I hear it as the victory of good over evil. Things are quiet.
Stores are closed. Katrinka sent Ketut home to be with his family which he
was eager to do, said to skip cleaning etc here today. For more on
Galungan go to this page
on Wikipedia.
Click on the thumbnail to see the penjor lining a road - and notice
that it' a well-maintained road.
Penjor
explained at Indo dot com
- posted in
Saunters
Highly recommend
Your Inner Fish,
a PBS documentary in three parts - our inner fish, our inner
reptile, and our inner monkey. Only part I wanted to add something was
when he talked about the weakness of the human spine which evolved from
spines that were horizontal. The host goes to a massive
human skeleton collection in Cleveland to make his point. I thought
that a lot of Cleveland's back problems might come from sitting in
chairs and being overweight and wondered how other cultures like natives
who can squat all day would compare. - posted in
Misc
David Padwa wrote in
response to DC queries about his genealogy and relationship with Richard
Baker
12-16-14
- Creating edible yards
Permablitz Bali: Making Circles of Seeds and Friends - article in
The Indonesian Expat
Permablitz Bali - on
Facebook -
and a really nice
YouTube video on Permablitz Bali - with a few of our friends in there.
Good people - orang baik.
- posted in
Saunters
Today's excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture -
Statement at end of Sesshin
with an important correction to the transcript and a couple of comments
from DC.
Excellent site for David Padwa's Incident at Lukla
- Hapax Press - adding
to his cuke page along with some brief
comments from him on his Buddhist history and one from me that he's been
an important benefactor to us all.
12-15-14
- More on David Padwa whose novel,
Incident at Lukla, was featured
yesterday.
His Amazon Bio
and curriculum vitae neither of which mention some details that would be
interesting to cuke readers. (More to come).
and this errata:
Padwa not Padua as I kept writing it. Have fixed a few places on cuke.
In the Acknowledgments under Sources the name of David Padwa was
misspelled as David Padua. My apologies. - DC - See
End Matter
of Crooked Cucumber. - Posted in
Errata for Crooked
Cucumber.
SFZC Zen in America
fundraising brochure for Tassajara which went out early? in 67 and
listed previous donors with David Padwa's name spelled Padua. Also in the
Fall 67 Wind Bell the
same list repeats this error. Too late to fix those.
Today's excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture - What does meditate
mean?
The six Lotus
Sutra lectures from February of 1968, sources for yesterday and today's
excerpts, were included in the archive by DC in 2012 and only now
getting to fixing some glitches in scanning and OCR and a few
corrections here and there. Corrected versions should be on
shunryusuzuki.com in a while. - DC
Went to a
birthday party for a Javanese friend today and after we sang my least
favorite song, Happy Birthday to You, learned the beginning of what they
sing in Indonesian. Could only remember the first line when I repeated it
to Nyoman driver who sang it for me then stopped and said he forgot the
rest. Here's a
YouTube video of a rather elaborate group karaoke presentation of two
Indonesian birthday songs (I found a third elsewhere). The first is the
one they sang today - Selamat Ulang tahun - congratulations repeat
year - that's the most common happy birthday greeting, the only one I've
heard except in those two other songs.
- posted in
Saunters
12-14-14
- Just learned David Padwa has a novel out - Incident at
Lukla.
Here's
the Amazon link
Here's
the audio book link from Audible - with David Padwa narrating.
More on David Padwa later - maybe tomorrow.
Today's excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture. Hint: It's at the
point he realizes how much it's boring his audience. Suzuki's lecturing on
the Lotus Sutra which he did three times in 68 and 69, a number of
lectures each time. A lot of it was him reading from the sutra which was
full of hyperbolic description and lists and he's explaining the meaning
of terms and names of Buddhas and so forth. It seriously bored almost
everyone. In the fall 68 series, I went to him and urged him to stop.
Offered alternatives like having us read the sutra in study and then
meeting with him to discuss it so he didn't have to slowly read it to us.
I was persistent but unsuccessful.
Reader in UK wants to get an eBook of Crooked Cucumber and the the
online dealers won't let 'em by it there. Any suggestions? Thanks. - Contact DC
Coconut syrup is heavenly like maple syrup. Me must be strong.
- posted in
Saunters
12-13-14 - Have been looking forward to writing this date. - dc
Was
making my usual morning black tea with local fresh ginger and vanilla when
I noticed that I'd picked up and started grating something that looked
like ginger but wasn't. It was harder. I realized it was nutmeg. Put it
back and got the ginger. That little bit of nutmeg added another subtle
and pleasant flavor that I've been including since then.
That's vanilla in the photo. We get it without the flower and slice it
finely at an angle to open it up to release the flavor.
- posted in
Saunters
Some people
believe in evil spirits, you know [laughs]. But no evil spirit can exist
in the same way forever. They are changing. Whatever existences may be,
they are changing. There is nothing that does not change. To believe in
some permanent one deity is also based on the idea of existence. That is
not spiritual life. It is another form of material life.
- Shunryu Suzuki (edited by DC) from 68-01-11B in
shunryusuzuki.com - That file
name will change to 68-01-11-B. -
Suzuki Lecture
page on cuke.
Since I'm reading through Suzuki's lectures, thought
I'd post quotes here regularly. Will start a page for them tomorrow. -
DC
12-12-14 - Andrew Main sent comments on photo posted 12-10-14 below. So
now there's a page for it
here with his comments. I really must get to work on this sort of
thing. - dc -
On
medical treatment here in Bali - a warning post on Lonely Planet from
four years ago and our experience so far.
Have not gone to see the
famous local medicine man in the photo. -dc
Shunryu Suzuki said you can't eat and talk at the same time. - more in
DC on SR
12-11-14 -
Katherine Cook -
Summers by Lake
Water
Tassajara
25 Year Anniversary Book
published 1992
These two files are included at the bottom of
the new presentation of
all the Wind Bells
1961-2012
with links to the Shunryu Suzuki lectures from these Wind Bells.
Tea as good as
and in ways better than water says new study - BBC Health - Couldn't
count all the times people have told me I had to drink water to hydrate,
that tea didn't count. - DC - posted in
Misc
Frances Thompson remembered on SFZC's Sangha News
Frances
Thompson memorial page
Mailed our War on Xmas presents today to US Xpress with the postage
being roughly twice the cost of the presents. Funky little post office
with crappy art on walls for sale, map of the world, travel niche in
front unmanned with broachers on the floor. A young woman helped me wrap
everything or rather I helped her while a guy behind her watched TV the
whole time laughing occasionally. Had to date the customs forms 11-12-14
rather than the US and don't know who else method of month-day-year. Ah
- what a relief. Katrinka asked me what I'd like for Xmas and I
responded as I always would have had I thought of it, "For it to be
over." --- Just kidding darling.
- posted in Saunters
12-10-14 -
Click
to enlarge today's photo. SR0172 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - Chosen at random. Another from
some ceremony at the Japanese Tea Garden it seems. Suzuki on the left and
Grahame Petchey behind him to the right. I wonder if we'll get to figuring
out whom the others are. Early sixties.
Zen Freethinker Issue 33 - 1991
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends or Zen Freethinker
Issue 32 - 1990 or 91 - missing. Since it's in-between those two
publications, not sure which name was used or which year. Still wonder if
it can be true that the SFZC library collection was thrown away by a
librarian unaware of its significance. Got an email saying that a while
back. - DC
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Reading
through the verbatim and early transcripts of Shunryu Suzuki lectures
(available on
shunryusuzuki.com), just
passed the quarter mark. Try to do at least 1% of them a day. Reading
slowly. Getting to the end of 67.
- more in DC on SR
Got a couple
of mango juices (manga) for Katrinka and me today to go with the bakso
(meat and flour ball soup) at a stall by the beach. That was our lunch.
About two dollars each. Didn't have to pay the juice lady because a month
ago I'd given her a fifty thousand Rupia bill (about $4) - enough to cover
a few drinks. She didn't have change so I said I'd take it in future
drinks. - posted in
Saunters and
zc stories
12-09-14 -
Click
to enlarge today's photo. SR0172 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - Chosen at random. This looks like
Suzuki bowing in fancy robes at a ceremony at the Japanese Tea Garden in
Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Don't know who any of those folks are.
I don't think he was wild about doing public ceremonies like that or going
to ecumenical meetings, but if the Japanese congregation wasn't urging him
to do something then the zazen students would.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2012 Wind Bell volume
42, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 111 of 111 selections
This is the last Wind Bell and the last Shunryu
Suzuki lecture from the Wind Bells, the 111th we've presented here on
cuke.com one by one. The last Wind Bell was published in 2012, five years
after the prior one which was to be the last one. Now one must go online
to SFZC.org
and get the digitized Sangha E Newsletter. But all those Wind Bells are
here, as linked to above, for you to glean through as you wish. Next maybe
we should list all of their table of contents in one file, on one page, so
you can zip through and see what might be of interest. Wonder if we could
make links from the contents. - DC
Chart -
Shunryu Suzuki
Lecture Transcript Categories and Info updated again. This time
indicating suggested minimally edited versions with
this color or a color close
to that. There are no links to lectures on this page so you'd have to go
to
shunryusuzuki.com and search
for that lecture and go to the More files to get the minimally edited
version. We are working on a more obvious presentation. Someday it will
all be smooth as silk - probably just before all digital media is lost in
woldwide chaos brought on by the folks who were vying for power and
profit. Until then it's digitize and archive like there's no tomorrow!
Next chapter - print it all up on acid free paper and carve in stone. - dc
- posted in What We're Doing (where is
posted less about that than on this page).
Niel deGrass Tyson's Cosmos was wonderful. He's my favorite
materialist. He made an excellent pitch on the threat of climate change
from the halls of extinction - and that on a show on Fox TV, the home of
climate change denial. There were the five great extinctions so far with
names above their hallway entrance and then one unnamed. Pointed out the
unusual agreement of evidence pouring in from various and legion
scientific sources - biological, geological, meteorological, and so
forth. He said that his time climate change is clearly caused by people
and that not only do we know the cause, we know what to do and have the
means to do what's necessary - but we lack the will. He pointed out the
seemingly unstoppable march of short term profit. He said he didn't
think it could make us go extinct (which some scientists including
Hawking would argue with), but do we really want to leave this
comfortable zone we've been living in? Too late for that probably. Now
it's just how much can we slow it down.
Here's an LA Times article on his "powerful scientific case." Check
him out on YouTube and the Internet elsewhere.
- posted in
Climate Change
Got acupuncture and some Chinese Herbs today from an Aussie tennis
partner practitioner of Chinese medicine. In addition he grilled me for
half an hour on my condition which is like some sort of low level bug
tiredness and sporadic coughing for a couple of months. His conclusion
from our talk and his observation of me on the tennis court is that I have
no structural problem, just functional, no dangerous condition or disease,
just a temporarily weakened immune system and a body that's fighting
something that uses up a lot of energy. Said I'm basically healthy and
will slowly get over it which is what seems to have been happening anyway.
But I hope the acupuncture and herbs give
a boost as he predicts. Oh yes - He approved of the meditation, yoga, and
diet but was concerned when I'd told him I still work for many hours every
day, what seems to Katrinka like all the time. Told him I vary postures
but at least half is sitting cross-legged. I know the warnings of "the
chair kills." He told me to get up from sitting every fifteen minutes or
so and stretch and walk around. I think I'll use my phone
as a timer to help out with that.
- posted in
Saunters
12-08-14 -
Happy Buddha's Enlightenment Day - in the Japanese tradition anyway.
Who da buddha you da buddha da who da buddha.
- Kabumpkan
Interview with Dennis Samson
stared in 2002 and finished with him on a two hour plus call yesterday.
Click
on image to enlarge a photo of a nice Xmas gift from these parts.
On a boat ride I saw a really huge lizard crawl from under a house and
slide into a canal in Bangkok and I was shocked at how big it was. I
didn't know such an animal existed.
That photo
from this page. --------------------- more in
Saunters
12-07-14 -
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2007 Wind Bell volume
41, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 110 of 111 selections
Point
Lobos: An Illustrated Walker’s Handbook
-
with art by Frances Thompson
- thanks Steve Tipton
Frances
Thompson memorial page
As a new and impressionable student,
in the fall of 1966 I heard Suzuki-roshi give a lecture at Sokoji in which
he said that once the eyes of Buddhism are on you, you can't get away from
them. This was a talk that struck a strange cord in me since it so
perfectly paralleled the school song of the University of Texas,
The Eyes of Texas,
sung to the tune of I've Been Working on the Railroad.
- more in
DC on SR.
At Warung Annapurna (restaurant) ("pay as you feel") last night
showed nurse practitioner Kim my red bump described yesterday and she
agreed yes maybe a spider. We got to talking about things that bite etc.
Well, she has a house further inland with a yard and more fields around
and her main concern is cobras in the garden, on the porch, where the car
gets parked, and, yes, in the house.
- more in
Saunters
12-06-14
- Click
to enlarge today's photo. SR0007 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - Chosen at random. This is the 1970
lay ordination. Gotta get to naming all these folks in all these photos.
Will name one here. That's
Carl Bielefeldt on
the left with the tie on.
Twelve points on the torture report due to US Congress -
from Huff Post -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Shunryu Suzuki is sometimes quoted as saying that Japanese Zen had
grown moss on its branches. I heard this quote at an event in 2009
centering on the 50th anniversary of Suzuki's coming to America. The
speaker compared that quote using Suzuki's most quoted phrase, beginner's
mind, saying that that's what he found here. There were Japanese priests
in the audience and I was embarrassed about this comment. - more in
DC on SR.
Something bit me on the inside of the left elbow. Got an inch
and a half long red bump. Spider I guess. That's what I'd think in the
US when some unexplained and larger than usual reddish sometimes itchy
bump appeared like in John Tarrants' barn where we lived for nine years
- thanks John! Also, Tassajara I bet has more spiders and as many
scorpions and Japan surely has more centipedes. We don't have black
widows here and I used to find them everywhere I've lived in the US.
Flys don't bother me but mosquitoes - I tell them - stay away or risk
capital punishment. Katrinka saw a sea snake snorkling the other day -
one of the most poisonous animals there is. Didn't scare her. It's
almost impossible for them to bite you with their little tiny mouths.
- posted in
Saunters
12-03-14
- Click
to enlarge today's photo. SR0007 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - Chosen at random.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2006 Wind Bell volume 40, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 109 of 111 selections
When Shunryu Suzuki arrived at Tassajara - dc -
posted in Tassajara
Stories
Walking down a dark street toward the beach the other night as it's
not much longer to go that way home, ritzy area with high walls on both
sides. Katrinka almost tripped on something. Oh - a black snake about two
and a half feet long. It was dead. Maybe a car ran over it. Later she
looked it up, said it was a non poisonous garden snake. Remember? "If it
was a snake it would have bit you!" Well it was a snake and it didn't bite
her. So there.
- dc - posted in
Saunters
12-04-14 - Shunryu Suzuki died on this day in 1971 forty-three years
ago.
The last chapter of Crooked Cucumber -
Ch. 19 -
Final Season - in the Notes on Crooked Cucumber section with almost no
notes as yet. The whole site is filled with them. Maybe they'll just crawl
over there at some point and set themselves in the proper places. - dc
click
on thumbnail to enlarge Tassajara photo from Frances Thompson's
wall and go here to
see the backside with the names.
posting on the
Frances
Thompson memorial page and on the
photo page too
Nanao Sakaki and Allen Ginsberg on
KGNU Boulder 1982
Part One
and
Part Two
- thanks Howie Klein and John Kinney.
Solar and Wind Energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels -
NY Times.
I'm seeing more and more info that indicates we
could stop pumping all that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere if we cared
to. I don't want to disappoint or inconvenience all the people making
money that way, but maybe we could buy them off and tell them oh come on,
we're just trying to keep the biosphere habitable for you and your
offspring.
-
posted in
Climate Change
It's been a year in Asia now. Hmm. Wonder how much longer we'll be
here. Don't really feel like going anywhere - even around here.
-
posted in
Saunters
12-03-14
- Summer Cattle by Frances Thompson. She wrote:
Near Olema, Marin
County, these Black Angus cattle stand in a row under the shade of big
live oaks. While I was working, sitting on the pasture grass in the field,
a calf sneaked up and ran off with a paint rag.
posting on the
Frances
Thompson memorial page
thanks Molly
Brian Howlett
artist and Zen guy wrote wonder who makes fat pants which
the SFZC's then Karin Gjording's Alaya Stitchery used to make - maybe
stopped before Karin got it. I think we were making them before Alaya
even.
Paul Reps
turned us on to them and Richard Baker promoted the idea. The were
popular in the early years of his abbotship.
Here's how to make
them! - posted in
zc stories - I know it's not
a story but rather than put it in
misc thought this was a bit of ZC history I didn't want buried.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2005 Wind Bell volume 39, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 108 of 111 selections
From what I gather reading emails from SF Bay area, they and Sanur
have similar weather now - cool and rainy though what's considered cool
here and there aren't the same. - posted in
Saunters
12-02-14
-
Click on thumbnail to enlarge
Back side o
DC lay rakusu with kanji written by Suzuki received at the lay
ordination at SFZC, August 25, 1970 for a number of people - like 20 or
more. Reading from the right is the robe chant, then the date, gotta ask
about the next line, then his name Zenshin Shunryu some title, and mine Kisan
Zenyu koji (lay person).
Robe chant
on this page of short verses from the Austin ZC.
The first lay ordination was 1962 for about 13 students. Suzuki was a little
discouraged with the follow-up on ordinations and waited a while to do
more. There was a kids lay ordination in the summer of 1970 at Tassajara
and this one in August. There was a third in 1971 for a bunch. In
time will get these details more nailed down including priest ordinations
- mine Nov. 1971. - dc
The
Rakusu and the Precepts by
Kuden Paul Boyle (from Chaple Hill ZC site) - with a nice photo of
him in a similar rakusu - blue - though mine was smaller. People always
remark on how small it is. I sewed it and maybe got some help.
Click on thumbnail to enlarge
posted in Lineage
and DC-SR
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 30, 31 - 1990
- thanks Joel Weishaus for scanning and sending this one in
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
A big reason climate change isn’t a priority:
The apocalypse
I
enjoyed reading how the Book of Revelations was a social political
treatise on the times it was written, not a prophesy of future events. A
lot of early works weren't preserved because so many thought the end was
near. Even though the end does look near to me, I preserve
anyway. Mentioned recently like St. Francis saying he'd keep hoeing.
Another image is the guy who put his car up on blocks and disconnected
the battery etc in preparation for his part in human extinction in On
the Beach. Just seems like good form. - DC
-
posted in
Climate Change
We both took some worm medicine - two big pills - didn't notice
anything - cause nurse practitioner Kim said it's good to do now and then
in the tropics and she said worms could be at the bottom of my lingering
malaise (which isn't stopping me from working or doing yoga or playing
tennis but is sort of like feeling like I just woke up and am not getting
out so much except got to now cause Internet is down around here and want
to upload so you can read this. - posted in
Saunters
12-01-14
- Obituary for Francis
Thompson from her niece Molly Tenenbaum who also sent this photo and
wrote:
This photo
was taken on a beautiful sunny day last September, 2014, on a walk at
Crissy Field, a park in San Francisco by the bay. You can see she's
wearing her binoculars. We had just seen a long-billed curlew, which she
was excited about.
posting on the
Frances
Thompson memorial page
And just learned that SFZC and then Austin Zen friend Jim Jordan,
husband of Barbara Kohn, died on June 5th. He and I also are both
alums of Pascal Hi School in Fort Worth, TX. Farewell Jim.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2005 Wind Bell volume 39, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 107 of 111 selections
Obama shops at Independent bookstore on
Small Business Saturday.
Indie Store
Finder --------------- on Indie
Bound dot org
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
When we finally get what we've longed for, we enjoy it best if we
simultaneously let it go. - Kabumpakan - posted in
dc misc 4
There's a restaurant we eat at once a month or so at the beach that
hangs Coleman Lanterns on poles stuck in the sand as it's getting dark,
the same type that we put out at Tassajara with the same faint odor of
kerosene smoke reminding me of why I've lobbied for dim, downward shining
electric lights to replace them at Tassajara. - posted in
Saunters
November
11-30-14 - RIP Frances Thompson who just passed away. Frances
was an early student of Suzuki Roshi, the 2nd tenzo at Tassajara, the
illustrator of the first Tassajara Bread Book. She lived many recent years
off Panoramic Hgwy above Muir Woods and then moved to SF where she's been
some years. More at Frances
Thompson Memorial Page.
DC
Sandokai Study - PDF posted in
Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
- Created this line by line study in the summer of 1970 while Suzuki Roshi
was giving the lectures on it. Before each lecture would go
over it briefly with him. When posted earlier wrote that Yoshimura Sensei
did the kanji but didn't look close enough. Those are my kanji (as were
the ones on the blackboard on the altar when Suzuki gave the lectures).
Yoshimura did the kanji for the Genjo Koan and Fukanzazengi studies done
in the summer of 74 and 75 with Trudy Hartman typing my work up - a big
job. Will post those also someday if I find them. - DC
Chart -
Shunryu Suzuki
Lecture Transcript Categories and Info updated.
Finally some heavy rain now and then for a week or so here in
Sanur. Two powerful rolling thunderclaps woke me out of bed at 12:30
last night to go sit on the porch and soak up the torrents gushing, deep
pooling, flashings distant and close enough to explode as if on the roof
and shake me in my seat. The SF Bay Area has little of this. Got some in
Texas in recent years. I'd do the same - sit outside and just love it.
Remember a family reunion in Ohio a bunch of us sitting on a back porch
screened in on three sides bombarded for hours by Thor. Driving from the
Bay Area to New Mexico and Texas and back, how often I was gratefully
blessed with thunderstorms within a majestic panorama. Recall putting
the car over to stand on a hill in a vast barren plain witnessing a
lightning show over the ridges and peaks far way on a continuous 360
celestial degrees stage. But it's not
all wham bang here. There have been some lovely drizzles. Stood in one
earlier today while the sun, almost overhead, shone brightly on me. - posted in
Saunters
11-29-14 -
Pope Francis has
called for an interfaith dialogue to counter fanaticism and
fundamentalism. Good for the Pope. - dc
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
An interesting note - to me anyway on lineage. Valorie Beer has found that
Dainin Katagiri and Shunryu Suzuki lineages depart as far back as
Keizan.
The Suzuki lineage follows Gasan Joseki after Keizan, and Kataigiri
follows Meiho Sotetsu after Keizan. This brings to mind the thought that
there should be a lineage page on cuke where such info can be gathered -
including writings on not getting too caught up on the validity or
importance of it all. Will make this this first such post there and as I
stumble on related material will add. Alright - here's the new
Lineage page
with some additional links. More to come. - dc
Short Takes & Outtakes: Short Stories of a Father and Son -
yet another book by Fil Lewitt and his father Al
click on thumbnail to enlarge
Fill's cuke page with a new bio
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2004 Wind Bell volume 38, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 106 of 111 selections
An English language usage common here in Bali and elsewhere in Asia, not
everywhere, is the word mister used before the first or given name and
miss in a woman's case - less. So now and then I'm Mr. David. This isn't
something to correct people on. It's widespread accepted usage including
with people who grow up with English as in India. I heard it a little
from Southerners further east than Fort Worth and from older black
people when I was a kid.
Here's a discussion saying it's still done in the South of the US. - posted in
Saunters
11-28-14 -
Juan Cole's Thanksgiving message from yesterday is a surprising
and stirring take on global warming and a call to action. To me, the fact
that major news outlets in the US rely on hacks rather than experts like
Juan Cole is a sad sign of the times. However, climate is not his area of
expertise. Check him out. - DC
- posted in
Climate Change
Click
to enlarge today's photo. SR0169 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - Chosen at random. Here Suzuki's
been at some ceremony, maybe at the Japanese tea garden in SF and he's
with maybe a member of the Japanese congregation at Sokoji or some person
from outside of that congregation who was at that ceremony. - dc
Shunryu Suzuki LECTURE:
REED COLLEGE, PORTLAND, OREGON on March 12, 1971 had bad error as mentiond
in the
One
Continuous Mistake post of 11-23. You can now read the whole corrected
lecture at
shunryusuzuki.com - it's easy
to find and the file name is 71-03-12.
Niels and me stealing food -
Mentioned in yesterday's Tassajara Stories post that Niels Holm and
I were principle culprits as far as food pilfering at Tassajara went,
leading to Tatsugami having a lock put on the door. Here's a glimpse at
us in the act. - in Tassajara Stories.
Back on
1-16-14
in Saunters 1 I wrote that back in 1992 no
one would call one year old Clay Clay. They tended to say clack or clang.
I had always said it must be because they had a word for "fight" that
sounded like that. But I wrote then that I couldn't find such a word and
maybe I remembered wrong. But now I've found it. Kelahi means to fight,
quarrel. And that sounds a lot like "Clay." Just wanted to clear this
important point up. - posted in
Saunters
11-27-14 - Thanks! And happy Thanksgiving. Regardless of any
controversy the origins of this day's celebration, it ranks at the top of
the cuke pantheon of holidays. The turkeys are thankful that they're
hard to eat here in Bali today due to Bird Flu scare I guess. We hear
they're not letting them be imported at present - the type that are ready
to put in the oven. We heard of some available for about 150 bucks. No
thanks.
- posted in
Saunters
Thanks to Niel
deGrasse Tyson with Chris Hayes on Climate Change -
posted in
Climate Change
Thanks to
Craig's Oryoki Meal
- in Tassajara Stories
Thanks to Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2004 Wind Bell volume 38, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 105 of 111 selections
11-26-14 -
Taking the High
Road, Long Road In -
by Katharine Cook -
on a recent week at Tassajara
Had to check Chew's Ridge which one drives over going to Tassajara
elevation for this. I'd always said 5000 feet but it's 4708.
Got that here. - dc
Adding
the
Akazienzendo in Berlin
to the page with dharma groups
in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage. The teacher there is Bernd Bender (in
the photo) who translated Crooked Cucumber into German. He was at the
SFZC for years. - DC
From
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness -
Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Sandokai
Transliteration of Sandokai - with Chinese reading that the Japanese
is based on
- posted in the
Branching Streams page and
Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
The latest
from Zsolt Suto in
CIRCLES OF SILENCE - music with
Tibetan Singing Bowls for relaxation, inner exploration & meditation -
listen to it online and
download for free here.
He sends this
"With love, all my best wishes" -
posted in cuke-the-arts-music
Talking to a friendly Muslim woman with hijab at the
beach yesterday watching the Sunrise. She was here for a three day
conference on computer information something. She on the faculty of what
she called the top technical school in Indonesia. At some point I
mentioned that I had not been a supporter of US military policies but had
concentrated more on anti-nuclear weapons activity. "Cinta damai," she
said (C = ch) - Love, peace. - posted in
Saunters
11-25-14
-
Jays and Pigeons at
Tassajara (The latter have
been replaced by Steller's Jays, pictured here). - in Tassajara
Stories
From
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness -
Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Sandokai
Translation of Sandokai
- posted in the
Branching Streams page and
Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
Karen Armstrong on her new book about the history of violence and
religion right up to today. - from Salon.com - thanks
Brit Pyland -
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Speaking of birds, there are wonderful birds here in Bali, especially
the ones who sing in the morning, giving a pleasant treble to the
background roosters' crowing. I've been a bit coughy and coldy and
sleeping irregularly. Woke at three and by four ended corpsus meditation
to sit on the porch and listen to the early birds and course in the
wisdom gone beyond. Then walked to the beach before dawn and they
serenaded me from the tree tops. I don't see a lot of pretty birds like
some places - Perth was amazing with lovely colorful parrots I guess and
those dominant ravens and back swans. But the singing of these guys is
sweet and sufficient. - posted in
Saunters
11-24-14 -
Brian Fikes
on his Work
with Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
Did an image search for Brian Fikes and then tried his name with the
word Zen after it and a lot of photos of Suzuki came up and ZC and off
cuke. So I took this one which was on the SFZC site. It's not a thumbnail
as the resolution was low. - DC
Harambee Arts - Just got a year end letter from Gloria Simoneaux
about how this wonderful project is doing and of course needing more
funding. Check it out at the web
site or on their
Facebook page
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2003 Wind Bell volume 37, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 104 of 111 selections
Strawberries and Soap
- in Tassajara Stories
11-23-14 - From
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness -
Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Sandokai
Lineage Chart from the book
- posted in the
Branching Streams page and
Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
That book and project by John Sheehy prompts this post on
mistakes in Shunryu Suzuki lectures.
Reading through all of Suzuki's lectures now and we're
making little changes and corrections on
shunryusuzuki.com on the
default transcripts which can be downloaded and printed. Some really
embarrassing mistakes have been in there for years. Found another really
big one today. - read more in
One
Continuous Mistake
I've got the weirdest problem with my antique Front Page
2002 (which is what I use to make cuke) giving me an System Exception
Access Violation message ever since the last MS update. So far I have
figured out how to get around it but it's definitely in the way. Pray for
me. - posted in
dc misc 4
11-22-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2002 Wind Bell volume 36, issue
2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 103 of 111 selections
The
Diamond Sutra at Tassajara (in Suzuki Stories) - That's not the
Diamond Sutra at Tassajara but an old Diamond Sutra scroll image that was
posted on cuke long ago for no particular reason. I know that it's said
that the Diamond Sutra is the earliest printed text we know of. Maybe this
is that though it looks hand-writen.
Winding up this series with this image and a
few insignificant words.
Sneezing and coughing, reading and writing. Been a little like this for
over a month. Katrinka finally made me take some cough medicine and
antibiotics which she got without prescription. I said it won't help but I
know a doctor in the US would say good to knock out opportunistic
bacteria. Upload and nap. - posted in
Saunters
11-21-14 - From
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness -
Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Sandokai
Michael Wenger's Introduction - posted in the
Branching Streams page and
Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
Palliative Care Social Worker at UCSF looking for a place
to live. She's an old friend though she's pretty young. contact DC. - posted in
Announcements
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 29
- 1989
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
A footnote on Einstein's ideas on religion. I remember his
writings on this being criticized as naive and suggestions that he
should stick to science. I think they hold up quite well when matched
with the Perennial Philosophy as opposed to superstitious literalism. As
with his science, his instincts on religion are impressive. He also had
a sense of humility and the limits of our ability to comprehend such
matters. He believed in a cosmos of laws and knew the laws of science
were not in accord with common sense and surely knew that the laws of
spirit were also beyond figuring out with our normal thinking or
imagination. He said he didn't get his science that way or with math
even as I understand it. Don't know how he did it. Maybe inspiration as
with Tesla who said that the idea for the motor just occurred to him all
at once, not as a result of logical process. But it all had to check out
however it came to him. And really Buddhism is that way to. As Buddha
said, Don't take my word for it. Inquire for yourself. - or something
like that. Here's more from Stanford (not easy):
Einstein's Philosophy of Science - posted in
dc misc 4
There's supposed to be some rain tomorrow morning and chances
every day for over a week. Hope so. The island needs it. I think it rains
less here in the most densely populated south. If so I bet that would be
due to all the cement and asphalt creating a sort of heat shield that the
clouds with rain tend to go around. I remember hearing that had happened
to the Fort Worth Dallas area where I come from. I love rain, love sitting
on the porch reading and working while it comes down around me. Hope it
doesn't tease and depart. - posted in
Saunters
11-20-14
-
Einstein's religous ideas - Wikipedia - great stuff - thanks Gene
Whitman for reminding me. I remember reading Einstein's
Ideas and Opinions when I was a teenager. Quite resonant with how I
was raised - body and mind are one, no personal god, transcendental. We
didn't have the science stuff down like him and were basically into a mind
only approach, but I've always thought, like he says, there's no possible
conflict between scientific and spiritual truth. "Science without
religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Of course he was no
fan of organized religion as he'd known it but he found plenty to praise
in the Torah, Bible, New Testament, and even mentioned Buddhism. - dc
While we're on the subject of body and mind as one, I'll link to a past
post that includes an experience from the catacombs of my past called
Mind And?
Body?
That's the tail end of a real equation in the photo - something that
applies only to the speed of light.
posted in
dc misc 4
Awakening
through Service: A Yearlong Exploration of Zen Practice, Community
Service and Fellowship at the SFZC City Center -
posted in Announcements
Palliative Care Social Worker at UCSF looking for a place to live.
She's an old friend though she's pretty young. contact DC. -
posted in Announcements
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2002 Wind Bell volume 36, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 102 of 111 selections
Earth Dance - Bali as seen through the lives of four generations of
Bali women. This book made me realize how little I see and know about what
goes on around here. I had seen Bali Hindu caste system as Margaret Mead
had as "caste light." Reminds me of asking driver friend Ketut if there
were really four different levels of politeness in Balinese language. We
speak Indonesian which doesn't have that, at least not what we speak. He
said yes there are different levels for people with different caste
status. I asked him if he used all those levels in his Balinese, "Tentu
saja (of course)," he replied. He only speaks about Hinduism to me in
terms of obligations ceremonial and financial. But they do hold together
as a culture and a people. You don't hear people talking about wanting to
get out, go to America, Australia, etc like elsewhere. I asked a Java
friend if he was considered a bule (foreigner) like me. "Yes yes," he said
laughing. - posted in
Saunters
11-19-14
- Jim Jordan (not the one from the SFZC now in Austin) is an old Zennie
who needs to sell his copy of this book. It's a rare edition.
The Wooden Fish, Basic Sutras & Gathas of
Rinzai Zen Paperback –
1961
by Kanetsuki Gutetsu and Gary
Snyder
Amazon link with a copy for sale for $1500
Gary Snyder
cuke page
Jim writes:
Though I have a lot of memories, I
haven't been connected to any formal Zen Buddhist practice for a
few decades. I live a reclusive life in a rural place (Columbia River
Gorge) where gardening is my great joy. As a volunteer I work in Aging
Advocacy and I try to help seniors understand and resolve the complexities
of Medicare, Medicaid and the food stamp program. I'm a very low (poverty
level) disabled senior myself so I've learned a lot about these programs.
My
attempt to sell The Wooden Fish is happening because I have some serious
and costly dental work I need done and Medicare doesn't cover dental
procedures.
Contact DC. - posted in
Announcements
Shunryu Suzuki mentions of the Diamond Sutra in his lectures -
not many - Another entry in the ongoing The Diamond Sutra at
Tassajara.
Had some Jackfruit in KL that was sumptuous. Wai Leng
said you've got to get it at just the right stage. Want to look for it
here. But an interesting note for those afar is that of all the fruit
available here, when it comes to juice, we often opt for good old
watermelon. - posted in
Saunters
11-18-14
- From Huff Post: California Attorney General Kamala Harris says
legalized marijuana is inevitable and wisely adds the details must
be worked out first.
Meanwhile - 'California Gov. Jerry Brown, also a Democrat, has
expressed strong misgivings about legalizing marijuana. On
NBC’s Meet The Press in March, Brown asked, “How many people can get
stoned and still have a great state or a great nation?"' I'd say another
question is How many people can you persecute and imprison for
making an unapproved choice and still be a great state or a great nation?
Earlier Brown said he opposed legalizing marijuana because it makes people
less alert. If the decision is to persecute and imprison people for
practices that decrease alertness, then there should be studies to
determine what makes people less alert in order to determine whom to go
after. Alcohol, TV, overeating, prescription drugs, too little or too much
sleep may rank high. As a former Jesuit seminarian, Brown has been
associated with an organization that persecuted harmless people for
practices not in accord with the reigning power's idea of what makes a
great society. Surely they thought they were doing the right thing as
surely he thinks he has the right position. I think he should reconsider
the implications. - DC (Drug and alcohol free [except for
tea and chocolate] for coming up on a decade, supporting the approach of
harm reduction, and wishing for a world free of the most sinister
addiction: persecution.)
- posted in
Harm Reduction - ten
years of posting on this subject.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2001 Wind Bell volume 35, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 101 of 111 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives - Since we just broke up an early lecture, 64-03-00
into two entries, So, every entry from then to now was numbered one short
and we just skipped #100. - DC
The
Diamond Sutra at Tassajara (in Suzuki Stories) -
continued from yesterday and the day before and the day before that
Somewhere deep in crowded Denpasar, got Katrinka and me a humble
24" flat screen TV for her birthday in addition to other offerings. Also
got an HDMI cable so we could connect our computers. My PC has an HDMI
out, but naturally the superior Mac needs an expensive adaptor. Nyoman
drove on us past so many more big buildings, shops, signs, on streets
small and large, past the shiny new mixed with the old, past statues and
rubble to park in a lot on a busy street opposite a Mac store. I'd been
there before to get that creature out of her Macbook Pro (stuck DVD
disc). Katrinka looked at the two way flood of vehicles and decided to
wait with Nyoman for me to cross the busy undivided street. On returning
with the expensive adaptor which she said was a third of what it would
have cost in the US, remarked on how cooperative the drivers of the
cars, trucks, busses, and many motorbikes were. I was an accepted part
of that mess. No one was honking or angry, they slowed to let me dash
past. Thanks people. - DC - posted in
Saunters
11-17-14
- Happy birthday Katrinka McKay, my love! - DC
Of course
we've been celebrating this most wonderful event for days, starting with a
dinner at Anapurna on Saturday night. This Monday morning she will awaken
to a kilo of marigolds which are used here extensively as offerings which
are offered at the many types of temples including the home temples and in
front of homes, stores, on dashboards. Anapurna had a kilo sprinkled
around on Saturday night. By the time most read this, Katrinka's birthday
here at
geographical coordinates of 8° 40' 30" S, 115° 15' 39" E will have passed.
From
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness -
Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Sandokai
Mel
Weitsman's Introduction - posted in the
Branching Streams page and
Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
The
Diamond Sutra at Tassajara (in Suzuki Stories) -
continued from yesterday and the day before
If the dioxins don't get you then the microbes will. Chatting
with Dr. Gene today at the beach about this and that, naturally hit on
trash and pollution in the water which he said must be the principal cause
of all the cancer and genealogical and other medical problems they have
here. I mentioned how I've had a low level bug, virus, cough for over a
month. He said, "Well Bali is paradise, paradise for microbes.
- posted in
Saunters
11-16-14
- That's the early edition of the Conze translation of the Diamond and
Heart Sutras studied during the first practice period at Tassajara.
- More in
The
Diamond Sutra at Tassajara (in Suzuki Stories) -
continued from yesterday.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2001 Wind Bell volume 35, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 99 of 111 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Just came back with Katrinka from an evening at the
Community Learning Center. Went a
long way past lots of metro south Bali with Ben from Anapurna who catered
and his Belgian mate Doani who's spent a lot of her life here. Reuben
Rosenberg from Italy who has also been here a long time debated the
Center's founder on whether religion was harmful or helpful. Reuben took
the former and French/Balinese David took the helpful, It was a science vs
religion spirit argument between friends. We'd not have gone if it were in
San Rafael but this sort of thing is a rarity here, it's neat to get out
and meet people, and we had a good thought-provoking time and loved the
food. - DC - posted in
Saunters
11-15-14
-
Diamond Sutra's short Chapter seventeen - all the chapters are short.
My kind of sutra. This is a recent translation in ordinary English by Alex
Johnson. - more at
The
Diamond Sutra at Tassajara (in Suzuki Stories)
Sari Hati School
for children and adults with mental disabilities fundraiser in Ubud on
November 28th. Sari is essence and hati is heart. If you're in
Indonesia, drop by.
Click on image to read poster.
- posted in
Saunters
The G20 is holding talks in Brisbane, Australia the host. The
subject is growth and let's get serious and not screw around with a lot of
nice empty talk and create jobs and growth. No climate stuff on the
agenda. To me the human race is committing suicide or at least the forces
that support world suicide are winning. -- more in Species
Threats in the
World Suicide Club News.
11-14-14 - The Solutions Project
- Taigen Dan Leighton sent this link with the following note:
Thanks to Peter
Coyote for telling me about this state by state project, sponsored by
actor Mark Ruffalo and others, including Stanford researchers. This
wonderful website shows how "The World Can Transition to 100% Clean,
Renewable Energy Starting Today." It includes an amazing state by state
map showing how each state in the U.S. already has the renewable, clean
energy resources that could take care of all its energy needs, without
relying on any of the fossil fuels or nuclear power that are devastating
our planet.
Check it out. - posted in
Climate Change
and
Taigen's Peace and
Justice page
-
Click to enlarge today's photo. SR0174 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive. This is a really old one. I think I'd have to ask Bill Kwong
about these. Gotta get to this. I could maybe isolate those to ask Bill
about and do it from the other side of the world. - DC
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2000 Wind Bell volume 34,
issue 2a.
Last
issue was misnumbered as 2 instead of 1 - dc
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 98 of 111 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Sometimes it seemed as if how long a person stayed was in inverse
proportion to how determined they were when they arrived. Back in 70
I was visiting the City Center from Tassajara and was hanging out in the
entranceway with Bob Halpern who'd been given the task of greeter, a
role that didn't exist before or after his stint. I enjoyed watching him
relate to those who came to knock on the door. Sometimes I'd cringe at
the way he'd toy with people's assumptions. One memory in particular
sticks in mind. - continued in
ZC Stories
Thirty years ago when Aussie Kim was newly married to her Bali
husband, the women in her house had her fold her sarong in the wrong
direction so that other women at the temple would laugh and point at her.
Outsider. They can be equally hard on a woman who has married out of caste
either up or down. Kim says they won't let anyone starve but don't like
them to get too high either.
- posted in
Saunters
11-13-14 - An
excerpt on Shunryu Suzuki from
The Zen Master in America: Dressing the Donkey
with Bells and Scarves (2006) by Stuart Lachs
with a few minor corrections at the bottom of
Stuart Lachs cuke page.
From
today's SFZC Sangha News:
SF Launch Party for Jane Hirshfield’s New Chapbook.
The book, called minus
/ myness and published by Missing Links Press
click on image to enlarge
Obituary for Dennis Rodriguez
Volunteers Needed to Transcribe Zenkei Blanche Hartman’s Oral History.
Cuke interview with
US to defend solitary confinement use before UN
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Ibu Kat is the pen name of a woman who writes a weekly column in the Bali
Advertiser.
Here's last year's article on water. Ibu means mother and is used for
any woman and Katrinka also uses Kat here.
- posted in
Saunters
11-12-14
- Ken Knabb (Bureau of Public Secrets) will have a table at the
Howard
Zinn Bookfair, as will more than 70 other radical groups and
publishers: Get the lowdown on
Ken's cuke page
Farewell Dennis Rodriguez who died on Nov. 10th at
Summit Hospital in San Francisco after having a heart attack and surgery.
Dennis was born in 1947 and was around the SFZC from the seventies as I
recall and was well-liked, a quiet person. Taigen Dan Leighton wrote that
Dennis was "a genuinely good fellow and clear friendly spirit, a
significant presence in my early years at SF Zen Center." - DC
Gabor Terebess writes: I am so happy to see your
Kishizawa page!!! Maybe you remember Suzuki-roshi's most beautiful
memories about his master, Kishizawa (though he doesn't say his name);
here is the original lecture
from your fantastic website (On
my site I put the Hungarian version of the above text translated
from ZMBM).
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 2000 Wind Bell volume 34,
issue 2.
Misnumbered, should be #1. Next issue is 2A. - dc
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 97 of 111 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Brought the Suzuki posts page up to
date.
How Dry We Are (in Bali) and Indonesia's
plans to double tourism causing water crisis. -
in Saunters
11-11-14
- Terebess site
page for Kojun Noiri, has photos and info on Kishizawa Ian, Noiri's
master and Shunryu Suzuki's 2nd teacher.
Cuke page for Ian Kishizawa -
just starting.
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 28
- 1988
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
When Shunryu Suzuki would arrive at Tassajara, he'd go straight to
the zendo and offer incense. Once when I drove him in from the city, we
walked into the zendo and up to the altar, I lit a stick of incense and
held it vertical before him. He took it and, before he placed it in the
bowl of ash, turned to me and said, "Many temple have burned down from
one stick of incense." Then he offered it, bowed three times to the
floor on the bowing mat, and we departed that building that burned down
a decade later - though probably not from a single stick of incense. -
DC in Brief Memories
Before Katrinka got hooked up with Aussie Kim nurse practitioner, local
Bali doctor told her they don't normally prescribe blood pressure medicine
for people over sixty, but since she's a foreigner he'll make an
exception. She just wanted more of the same mild dose she's been taking
for years. Not the first time we've heard about people of such age being
thought of us as too old to worry about. An old man going blind got his
eyes fixed by a European eye doc with a team doing a lot of quick
operations on people here. The old man's son wasn't doing anything about
it, thought that's what happens to old people.
- posted in
Saunters
11-10-14
- The Farmer's Yard
Permaculture Hostel in Canggu, Bali (YouTube Video)- An excellent
homemade video of some really good stuff happening in Bali got from bud
Kris's Facebook page - he's involved. At the end his brother Ben gives a
quick plug for our favorite and nearby restaurant, Anapurna. They are both
born and raised here by Bali father (excellent guitarist) and Aussie mom
(Katrinka's nurse practitioner). We are fortunate to know these folks and
their friends.
DC - posted in
Saunters
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1999 Wind Bell volume 33,
issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 96 of 111 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Just noticed that the previously posted Suzuki lecture from Wind Bell
volume 32, issue 2, 1998, is a repeat of the lecture from Wind Bell volume
30, issue 1, 1996, surely unintentional. - DC
Watched the first episode of the new
Cosmos: a Space-time Odyssey with Neil deGrasse Tyson and loved it.
It was great. - more in
dc misc 4
11-09-14
- A
brief memory of Shunryu Suzuki from
Stuart
Lach's email of 1/28/03 re-linked to two days ago, a memory of from
Tassajara's first practice period in 1967. That letter has more memories
from then and some critical analysis of some traps we tend to fall into -
including Suzuki.
Created a Stuart Lachs cuke page
- lots more there and lots elsewhere on the web. A lot of stuff that
shouldn't be brushed aside I think. - DC
One day at Tassajara Howie Klein was standing on the bridge by the
dining room gazing out toward the creek. I walked up and said, "Nice
view," we should take a picture of it. "Yeah," he replied, "Have to come
back and see it sometime." - DC - posted with
Tassajara Stories
Here's an article link which sent by Wai Leng in KL to Katrinka via
Facebook by a Catholic priest about Japan's us and them mindset and how
they're somewhat doomed to fall behind the world of growth and progress
because their birth rate is negative and they are not open to immigration.
My view on this is the opposite. We can't continue to have a world economy
based on non stop growth - and survive or have any good quality of life.
Unrestricted development in Bali is sure not pretty. Is it anywhere? Short
term profit rules over long term goals. I say cheer the Japanese on and
join them in zero population growth and let's figure out how to live on
this earth in more of a steady state way or some way that is sustainable.
Many knowledgeable observers think that's impossible and that we're
doomed. Just look at almost everything said by any politician or economist
or pundit on TV and it's growth good, no growth bad, more growth better.
To me that's insane. I think we're basically a psycho planet, and that's
the dangerous type of homicidal psycho. But I love us and I am grateful to
have had this visit. - dc
- posted in
Saunters and -
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
11-08-14 -
Click to enlarge today's photo. SR0150 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive. That's Shunryu looks like at the old Sokoji during some big
ceremony with his ceremonial hat on doing something at an altar.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1999 Wind Bell volume 33,
issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 95 of 111 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Just noticed that the previously posted Suzuki lecture from Wind Bell
volume 32, issue 2, 1998, is a repeat of the lecture from Wind Bell volume
30, issue 1, 1996, surely unintentional. - DC
Learning to
Unplug - a Green Gulch Story
“I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take
off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at
the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I ain’t a gonna kill nobody.
Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns."
~ Woody Guthrie
As Juan Cole points out
in this brief post,
"war is good for the arms industry, which funds a lot of congressional
campaigns."
(especially those which recently won.)
-
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Terebess wrote: I spent my holidays in Bali in 2004 with my wife and
our two sons. At that time I wrote some Hungarian haiku, a Canadian poet
translated them
into English.
- posted in
Saunters
11-07-14 - Gabor Terebess is a dharma heir of Hakusan Kojun Noiri
with an extensive Hungarian Zen web site. Noiri was a dharma heir of Ian
Kishizawa whom Shunryu Suzuki's studied with. We're going to be linking to
some of the many pages on Terebess' site
relevant to cuke material. Here's the
Zen Index. Here's his
page for Shunryu
Suzuki with lots of links to cuke and shunryusuzuki.com and sfzc.org.
Have linked previously to Kojun Noiri page from
here on cuke.
Here's Gabor Terebess' page
for photos of him and non English text. Lots of other links there but
that's enough for now. - thanks Peter Ford for reminding me
of Terebess - dc
Emailing Terebess about a few subjects, read
Stuart
Lachs' letter posted on cuke again. Check it out. I do
sympathize with his comments toward the end about Shunryu Suzuki's
comments from Crooked Cucumber on meeting with Soen Nakagawa in the
summer of 1971. Here's the chapter he referred to -
19-Final
Season - it's right at the first. Am slipping a link in there to
this part of Stuart's letter - one of the only notes in the empty
note side of Notes on the book. - dc
Interview with Kartika Soekarno [Sukarno], daughter of the founder of the
modern Indonesian state. Here's the site for the
Kartika Soekarno
Foundation, mainly involved with children's issues. She's also
concerned with trash. Her foundation has sponsored the film, Trashed,
narrated by Jeremy Irons who got quite involved in the issue. Here's the
film's Facebook page.
Here's the film's web page. One
can find images of horrific trash on beaches on the Internet and we've
seen that happen when the currents bring it in from Java and Sumatra in
January, but the photos above are more representative. -
more in Saunters
11-06-14
-
An email with
memories of Phillip Wilson
click on photo to go to page with more photos of Phil and
Shunryu
-------------
from
cuke photo page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1998 Wind Bell volume 32,
issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 94 of 111 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Note that this is a repeat of the lecture from Wind Bell volume 30, issue
1, 1996, surely
unintentional.
Back to 111 selections as, in reading through Suzuki's lectures realized
that 64-03-00 from the March 1964 Wind Bell had two lectures in it run
together so we're separating them for the archive. - dc
Fascinating
research (thanks Gregory) on how magic mushrooms
affect the brain. As with the 10-28-14 link to the Tricycle interview with
Even Thompson, there's stuff on where consciousness is located. He said in
the body and not just the brain but this research is looking at networks
and networks of networks within the brain. I think a few things when I
read this. One is wow how good it is they're doing this research and how
if the human race survives we'll keep learning more and more about how
things work. And I think about how it's just evil bad wrong that it's
illegal to eat these mushrooms and that people are persecuted for it. And
I think how neat it is how the various sciences keep showing both he
interconnections and all that there is to be interconnected. I think about
how along the way there will surely be new discoveries and inventions
leading to more than mere weapons and consumer products. I look at my own
naive, dualistic ideas of what consciousness is and how it ultimately has
no location or substance, that it's one of the five skandas marked as
empty and toss it all away marveling at how mysterious everything is. -
posted in
dc misc 4
Love my morning tea which stretches into the afternoon, the first cups
made with dashes of local ginger and vanilla. A large wasp hovers in front
of the open door and I send it a message to please not enter as it might
get stuck and I'll have to get up to help it out. -
posted in
Saunters
11-05-14
-
Click to enlarge today's photo. SR0173 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive. That's Grahame Petchey and I bet it's
at Eiheiji in 1963 but it could be when he'd returned to US.
One reason I'm
posting these photos is to force myself to go through them and make notes
which can be done by anyone in shunryusuzuki.com - and to isolate those we
have questions about and try to get a few who were around then to fill in
some of the blanks. - DC
Bulgarian
Salt Loaf - a Tassajara Story - posted on the Index page of ZC
Stories.
Steve Tipton responds to Jeff Broadbent and DC's exchange
On Progress
East and West and Why
Steve's cuke page
and Jeff's cuke page
Kids and babies do so many things the same though they're from very
different cultures - especially notice the sounds - laughing, crying,
complaining, urging, enjoying and think, 'That could be a kid anywhere.'
And same with adults but less. Essentially we're all the same it seems.
Mooji says that all beings have the same basic thought: I am.
That's ancient wisdom and like the perennial core wisdom from the
ancients to us, it's not derived from speculation, rumination,
cogitation, or objective observation, but from alonely empirical inquiry
deep into the root of being and non being. Also - can't be proven except
by tapping that core. Can't prove that either.
- dc
Only that
which involves what isn't fundamentally real can be proven by the
scientific method. - Kabumpkan
- posted in
Saunters and dc misc 4
11-04-14 - A week ago or so Daya Goldschlag
sent an
email about Elizabeth Sawyer's recent shuso ceremony in Sonoma
County at the Back Porch Zendo.
Elizabeth Sawyer
Cheng
Hoon Teng Buddhist temple in Melaka (Malacca).
Amazing how many people walk around with smart phones talking, listening,
taking pictures, doing selfies. Walking into this longest running Buddhist
temple in Malaysia, not large, with some fine artwork and interesting
design. was struck by how few people were actually looking at it directly.
Most were looking at their phones. And the selfies with those extension
poles are everywhere happening. On a boat ride a man with family kept
lining up shots behind himself, sometimes sticking the phone on extender
in front of us. Something new. We didn't complain. We played with his kid
and he joined in. - posted in
Saunters
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1998 Wind Bell volume 32,
issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 93 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
11-03-14
- Quinn Mueller says "Help me help my mom."
SFZC alum Gail Mueller is in
need of help -
- posted in Ads
& Announcements and
Aluminati updates
Spokeswoman for death with dignity ends life
Santhara - a Jain ceremony
of death with dignity through ceasing to eat and drink - the natural,
traditional method that takes into account the importance of state of
mind, death as a transition.
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 27
- 1988
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Katrinka memory from Kuala Lumpur outdoor market - At a poultry stall
a woman chooses a live chicken that's taken to the back. Later passing
by, the woman receives the chicken dressed and ready to cook.
DC mall moment of discovery - Buying new glasses, readers, as had
right earpiece break on two pair, learn that the stronger they are, the
closer one has to hold reading material. I'd thought that the ones I had
were too weak. Nope, too strong. Man told me to stick with the 2.75s.
- posted in
Saunters
11-02-14 -
On Progress
East and West and Why - Jeff Broadbent comments quite
intelligently on DC's speculations posted 10-30 below and on Saunters
- but now am posting this in
Comments and linking from here at
What's New, Saunters, and
Engaged Buddhism
and on Jeff's cuke page
That's John Calvin. I think he's partly responsible for climate change. -
dc
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1997 Wind Bell volume 31,
issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 92 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Back at what we think of as home and now next door to the two bedroom
apartment we had to vacate for three months because sad, sweet drunken
blind Phillip and his pregnant Bali wife Rini had dibs. Over the phone
from London he begged landlady Widya to let Rini stay as the place she was
going fell through but Widya held true. Good old Nyoman picked up Katrinka
and me at friend Alice's where we spent the night after landing. He took
us to get some essentials for the larder, helped us reload the new place
with our stuff. We walked to the beach, rows of parked motorbikes, bought
a loaf of excellent whole wheat and a mango tart at Luhtus, went to eat at
Sand on sand. The sun had descended, Mount Agung floated in pint light
above a cloud bank.
The high tide water and shore were full of locals, more than most Sundays.
Before my mix juice arrived I stripped to underwear, joined them. The
water was slightly warm. The moon up top waxing gibbous. Later in shorts
and shirt at the table, a high huge black kite danced beneath clouds
illuminated by the hidden moon. - posted in
Saunters,
11-01-14 -
The End of a (Zen) Buddhist Myth - In this response Brian Victoria
writes, "I have done my best to keep the focus of this article on
the "big questions" rather than a seemingly petty debate with Jundo Cohen
on the minutiae of translations." - another article on Zen and war by
Brian on Sweeping Zen.
-
posted in the Brian Victoria
cuke page
Chart -
Shunryu Suzuki
Lecture Transcript Categories and Info - Nov. 1, 2014 - by
DC
posted in
Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
Flew back
to Denpasar today after a most interesting nine days in Malaysia. Our
hosts there, as I've mentioned, are Malay Chinese, engaged Buddhists whom
we met through Alan Senauke of the Berkeley Zen Center and the Buddhist
Peace Fellowship. I've mentioned the mix of people and how friendly and
easy to be with they are, and how neat the dress of the Moslem and Hindu
women is - like having paintings floating around. Haven't mentioned before
the growing conservatism of the Muslim government. - more in
Saunters
October
10-31-14
-
Click to enlarge today's photo. SRC0045 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive
Picking these at random. Reminds me how
much work there is to do with them in terms of notes.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1997 Wind Bell volume 31,
issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 91 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Adding note to Index posted yesterday which identifies which
lectures contain which key words and names saying that some of the lecture
file names in the archive on
shunryusuzuki.com have changed.
Will post a chart tomorrow that indicates those changes. - dc
The Malaysian flag has a moon, sun or star, and red and white stripes,
the latter resembling the flag of the US which makes me do occasional
double-takes and then go oh yeah. Must look that up. A rickshaw driver who
drove us around an area of Melaka (Malacca) - small enough for us to have
walked but still we enjoyed his guidance and banter - took us to a Melaka
(sp?) tree that he said the city and state was/were named after. He said
that Malaysia comes from Malay and Asia. Took a boat ride on the river in
the center of town and saw a small crocodile. At our small hotel in the
historic district, a hundred years ago a Chinese home, the receptionist
showed us a map of where to go in the area. The first thing he circled was
the Hard Rock Cafe. I said that that is the last place we'd want to go.
Actually it was. We had great salads there so big we just ate the
leftovers for lunch on the train on the way back to KL And the to-go
containers are so good we're bringing them back to Bali.
Taking the commuter train at the KL station had to make sure not to board
a pink car - for women only. - posted in
Saunters
Velvet Top Mushroom - Kelly Chadwick with an edible fungi
- posting in family
10-30-14 -
An Index
of the 2004 collection of Shunryu Suzuki Lectures - Created by
Shinshu Roberts (SFZC link) pictured on the
left. She's the co-founder (with Daijaku Kinst) of the Ocean Gate Zen
Center located in Capitola, CA. Here's a
Sweeping Zen
interview with her.
This index was of greater use for searching before the searchability we
have now with the Internet. But some may want to access it here or print
it up as it does show the information in a unique way - for instance,
showing topics and subjects mentioned by Shunryu Suzuki in his lectures
and where they can be found. It would be good for someone to update the
index by including all the additions to the Suzuki lecture archive since
2004 which can be accessed at
shunryusuzuki.com. - DC
Posting this index on a new page named
Documents relating
to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
No link between tough penalties and drug use -
report - BBC from
England
-
Engaged
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Talking with Wai Leng, our hostess in KL of Chinese ancestry, she agreed
with my layman's take on the progress in SE Asia coming mainly from the
Chinese due to their Confusion culture and that's why Japan excels as
well. The emphasis on education, merit, progress, manners. There were
other conservative forces holding them back until the West ignited the
spark in the 2nd half of he 1800s. I suppose in the West it was some
chemistry of the Abrahamic tradition (Judism/Christian/Islam) and the
Greco-Roman getting things going till we had all these labor saving
devices and so forth leading to the massive transfer of carbon in the
ground to carbon in the air and our possible demise after untold
millennium of stability. It's sure been fun though feeling so superior and
getting to drive and fly around. Bet I can get some more educated comments
from some of our buds. I'll try. - posted in
Saunters
10-29-14
- Farewell Miriam Bobkoff who died on October 23rd.
- thanks Elizabeth Sawyer
The details of her passing the
most recent post on her Ocean in View blog
Miriam, madam librariam. Knew her at the SFZC but the strongest memories
are when she was working in the library in Santa Fe and I was doing
spelling and fact check for Thank You and OK there - downtown and in a
branch near where Elin and I were living July 92 - July 93. Always kind
and helpful. - DC
Miriam Bobkoff cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1996 Wind Bell volume 30,
issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 90 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Screwed up date and issue number for this series two days ago but it's
fixed now. Still it was the right lecture. - dc
Kuala Lumpur such a mix of people. A Philippine served us dinner at a
Japanese stall last night, a guy from Nepal rang us out at the grocery
store, a Mexican gave us directions near the Indonesian Embassy where we
met two Swedish women. 61 % Muslim - the women in hijab and soft material,
colors blending differently than the rainbow Indian Tamil sari both
flowing to the floor, Chinese in tee shirts and pants randomly selected
vibes closest to us slob Amecans. - posted in
Saunters
10-28-14 -
The Embodied Mind -
An interview with philosopher Evan Thompson - son of
William Irwin Thompson
- from Tricycle dot com - thanks Brit Pyland
I enjoy reading science stuff and sometimes science/religion stuff if
it gets beyond literalism which this does. None of it is how I see things
which is more like being underwater and whatever label I put on something
floats away or gets eaten by a passing fish. But I think there's value in
this sort of discussion - especially for people who can comprehend it. -
DC - posted in
Others
-
Click to enlarge today's photo. That's Silas Hoadley on the right. Is that
Mel Weitsman in back? Ken Strauss with the beard? Need to go through the
photos with some others. There are no notes with this one. - SRC0013 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive
East Coast
Ladies - in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Just some names with a few tiny notes scribbled on a piece of paper but
there could be, should be, maybe is a piece to be written there, a piece
of what made the quilt American Buddhism. Yvonne Rand has talked about
them. Incomplete of course. Ruth Fuller Sasaki isn't on the list. One
thing I mention to folks on this side of the world that's different about
a lot of the Buddhism in the West is how women do not take a back seat.
That goes back to early days. - DC
Couldn't get into the Indonesian Embassy today because I had
shorts on. Two European women with shorts on got in last time. Maybe the
sign wasn't up. A cab driver had baggy pants in his trunk he tried to sell
me for 20 ringgits. No way. Anyway, also no problem. Katrinka got both our
passports with the visas we wanted so we don't have to leave Bali for six
months which means I'll be able to plug away on all this nonsense with
fewer interruptions. Meanwhile, four more nights in Malaysia, two of them
in historic Malacca. Tonight spent some time with two little girls feeding
live crickets to the schools sugar glider. - posted in
Saunters
10-27-14 Narcissus Robert Quagliata's talk at the SFZC City Center this October 22nd.
- thanks M Katz
Narcissus Quagliata cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1996 Wind Bell volume 30,
issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 89 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
There seems to be an endless variety of Chinese food here in
Malaysia. Dinner tonight several firsts in a neighborhood place we
walked to. Must get Katrinka to describe it. Wai says that in America
she gets them to give her real Chinese food, not what they serve most
people. She says that two menu approach is common abroad. I was sort of
out of it from a cold treated with capsules of Chinese herbs from Wai's
mom's garden and the drive back on the toll road through verdant rain
forest and thought maybe couldn't eat much but ate a lot and drank many
little cups of smoky Bole (sp?) tea. And like the old jokes about how
you're hungry an hour later, I never feel too full or heavy after a
Chinese meal here. And the price was good - about seven bucks each. - posted in
Saunters
10-26-14 - New
to transcripts in progress -
A fragment from a shosan ceremony occurring at the end of a
fall-winter practice ceremony in which students are asking the abbot,
Shunryu Suzuki questions. It was found in the middle of audio file
68-02-00-G which was thought to be just a Togen Sumi lecture. This is only
the first pass. Am seeking ears of others to do a better job. Just go to
this link to read the very brief transcript in progress with question
marks for parts not understood. There's a link there to the audio. Send
suggested solutions - Contact DC. Thanks. - DC
Another
photo of Marian Derby Wisberg doing her Punch and Judy puppet show 1954 in
San Francisco.
posting on
Marian Derby Wisberg cuke page
Rode with Wai and kids a couple of hours north of KL to Ipoh,
Malaysia, where her mom lives and which she says is one of the top ten
cities in the world for US expats. All the way a divided four lane freeway
that goes from Singapore into Thailand - through lush greenery and
approaching Ipoh beautiful mountains jutting up with sheer cliffs and
caves. At lunch Wai said there's the best tofu in the world here - it's
the water - and her young son taught me thank you in Cantonese. Just say,
"Door chair" he advised, and drop the Rs. Now at another mall - chair by
outside glass wall, storm approaching, matcha latte, high winds. Love
monsoon season. - posted in
Saunters
Happy
birthday Camille Koue, excellent niece.
10-25-14
- Cindy Derby is Marian Derby's granddaughter, an artist and
puppeteer. Here's her site, Cindy
Derby dot com. And here's a page on it for something I didn't know
about Marian -
Marian Derby's puppet days.
That's Marian bottom left.
- thanks Steve Meek for sending this info and link
posting on
Marian Derby Wisberg cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1995 Wind Bell volume 29,
issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 88 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Dim Sum lunch at a fairly funky old place before venturing to the
new mall here way on the outskirts of massive KL. - more in
Saunters
10-24-14 - Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 26
- 1988
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Stephan Bodian has a new book out - Beyond Mindfulness -
Check it out on his website.
Went to the Indonesian Embassy in KL this morning and applied for six
month visas. Then walked to the
Petronas Twin
Towers and hung around that area till late, getting back to the school
where we stay twelve hours after we left. Walked in the park in front, had
tea and food, visited the aquarium with a tunnel surrounded by ocean life
- mantra rays and sharks overhead and to the sides. Saw a movie -
multiplex just like the states and everything at least that clean. Light
show with the fountains in the pond at night, locals crowded around to
enjoy it. An interesting mix of Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, Daoists, and
Christians and a colorful mix of women's wear. The scene reminded me of a
2/3 scale of Dubai at night in front of the Burj Khalifa - the tallest
building in the world. The Twin Towers were that until 2004. I walked
around them that year and things are much more built up, modernized,
malled and towered and posh now - the old neighborhood is gone. In fact, a
great deal of what we experience in KL is extensive malls with everything
American, European, Chinese, Japanese, Malay - anything to buy eat one
could want including great cheap local food. A little different from
Lembongan, the island we just came from, where I couldn't buy a pair of
reading glasses to replace either of the two pair that happened to break
there. Motorbikes for taxis and not that many of them. One extreme to the
other. - posted in
Saunters
10-23-14
- Here's the photo of Mitsu Suzuki, Shunryu's widow, by Barbara Wenger
that couldn't get to show up yesterday.
Click on the thumbnail to enlarge or just go to
Mitsu's cuke page to see it large.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1995 Wind Bell volume 29,
issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 87 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Katrinka got a
DVD stuck in her Mac which made it sound all the time like a little animal
is trying to get out. We were on that island and couldn't do anything
about it but returned yesterday, went to the Mac shop a long way across
busy Denpasar and they got the little animal out and I guess kept it as a
pet. Then we flew to Kuala Lumpur to get new visas for Indonesia. Tomorrow
morning to the embassy which will be closed in the afternoon I'm led to
understand as it's Friday and that's a Muslim holy day. And we're tired.
Nighty-night. - dc - posted in
Saunters
10-22-14 -
Barbara Wenger sent a photo of Mitsu Suzuki, Shunryu's widow, a color photo of Mitsu with
balloons at Green Gulch. Click on the
thumbnail to enlarge or just go to
Mitsu's cuke page. She sent another one two that I can see in my
computer but not online. Both photos posted or trying to post on
Mitsu's cuke page.
There are a few tickets left for the Nov. 5 Greens dinner and
event in San Francisco
celebrating twenty years of Community Grows founded by Barbara.
Explore Community Grows
posted in
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Buddhism/Current Events
For historical reasons and to honor the work of those who did the early
transcripts of Shunryu Suzuki lectures, transcripts of 75 of them have now
been entered onto
shunryusuzuki.com. They can be
found by clicking on Early Zen Center Transcripts in the Other Associated
File? window or by looking in More Files of a lecture. Next year, if I
don't get eaten by a shark, they will be featured one by one here on cuke.
But even then Peter Ford who entered them into the site would probably
carry on. He's been doing a ton of work on all this. Me too. More to come
on all this of course. - dc --- posting on
cuke's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture posts page
Speaking of sharks, ran into a fellow Texan today in Lembongan
when Katrinka and I were packing to leave. He has lived on the tiny island
of Ceningan that's between Lembongan and Nusa Penida. There's a little
bridge that goes over there that's so narrow that when motorbikes come by
one has to press against the side and pray. Anyway, he co-founded the
Aquatic Alliance - check it out.
And here's an article on him and and his co-founder Helen Mitchell and it
in the Indonesian Expat
called
Aquatic Alliance: Research & Conservation of Manta Rays in Nusa Lembongan
- but they're concerned with a wider sphere than just Manta Rays. He
mentioned that the shark population is way down and listed some types he
used to see more when diving - I forget the names but I remember he said
they weren't the type that bite.
- posted in
Saunters and in -
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
10-21-14
- Click on thumbnail to enlarge.
John Nelson, the USF Buddhism etc
prof whose Bali blog was featured yesterday wants to know who that is to
the left of Shunyryu Suzuki in this photo and also I'd like to know who
that is behind him. I keep thinking his name is Larry. The SFZC has used
this photo numerous times through the years. It has a number in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive but can't look for that now due to its rank on the priority
list.
Please send any answer to this query - Contact DC. Thanks, dc
posted on
cuke photos
page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1994 Wind Bell volume 28,
issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 86 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Fixed the bad link to the
Memorial Page - try
to check all the links when post but connection on this island so poor can
barely upload to begin with at times - at others it's fine. Yesterday
Katrinka and I walked to the village on the narrow, sandy, bumpy road past
thatch shanties, people carrying goods in baskets at the end of poles
balanced on their shoulders. Often looks like Baja California with cactus.
It's fairly dry here. Went forty minutes all the way to Warung 99 (Warung
is restaurant) where many of the boats from the big island of Bali come
in. Barefoot men and women wading through the water unloading boats. The
big stuff is tackled by groups of women - took eight to bring the large
coils of cable up the cement steps to load on the back of a truck. Tried
the one ATM and it was broken. - posted in
Saunters
10-20-14 - View (bigger than below) and read the two versions of the
the
Heart Sutra Chant card used at Sokoji in the sixties with Shunryu
Suzuki's minimal translation that ran below the kanji. I forgot this was
on cuke so am reposting. - dc
The one page two sided card.
Prof. John Nelson of USF
report and photos of a major cremation in Bali around this time last
year.
- posted in
Saunters and on
John Nelson's cuke page created
today.
10-19-14 -
- Click to enlarge today's photo, the sixth
of six in a folder marked stonework - at Tassajara. Maybe 67. Walls going
up on the kitchen - SRC0084 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - can't tell who's in it. - dc
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1993 Wind Bell volume 27,
issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 85 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Happy
Birthday Elin
Jeff Broadbent had a comment posted on NY Times dot com pertaining to
an article on space/time/Einstein and so forth.
posted on Jeff's cuke page
We're staying at the end of the road to the Mangroves by
the reef in Lembongan. Met a scuba diving teacher named Alberto from
Mexico who's friends with Adi who runs this place,
LOA, with his family.
Alberto said he's tried to get property down here but they don't want
any foreigners moving in. It's really low key. Sunday. Asked Katrinka to
take photos at the back with the falling in old thatch and other
makeshift huts, locals hanging out by some motor bikes banter kids
laughing one youngster naps. Electricity is out for a few quiet hours a
day. Sometimes when it's on staff/family/kids watching soaps or cartoons
on communal flat screen that was probably installed by owners with
guests in mind. That's the norm. Hey - they read my mind. It's off.
Wrong - electricity went off again. Now it's back - with Sponge Bob in
Indonesian. - posted in
Saunters
10-18-14
- Yesterday linked to Dairyu Michael Wenger's site,
Dragon's Leap. Today featuring
his book
49 Fingers, a collection of 49 American Koans,
written in traditional case, commentary, verse format alongside 22 of his
original brush works.
It is currently available at the San Francisco Zen Center's online
bookstore. You can purchase it at their website by clicking
here.
posted in
bibliography and Dairyu Michael Wenger cuke page
Christmas card from Marian
Derby and Jack Wisberg - undated but I'd say ten years ago or so -
the lack of scan of the other side makes me wonder if it was blank. - dc
- in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Marian Derby Wisberg cuke page
We went by fast boat with two outboard motors at 8am this
morning to snorkel
with really big Manta Rays off the coast of Nusa Penida, the big
island next to Lembongan. I read they get up to 22 ft. across but these
looked more like six to ten. Water was a little rough but surfer Adi whose
family runs the place we're staying led the way pointing at dark figures
approaching. They ride near the top, big mouths open for plankton. One
brushed gently by me. Awesome. Recalled Jake Fishman telling me once south
of Acapulco having one unexpectedly swoop right over him. Then to Crystal
Bay with colorful fish and huge colorful coral varied coral clusters. A
reverent sense of the vast majesty of life and the nameless wonder it
reflects. - posted in
Saunters - which is now called
Saunters 2 (from October 2014) and moved the rest to Saunters 1 cause the
file got too big. - DC
10-17-14 -
Dragon's Leap - Check out
Michael Wenger's site for his teaching, art, news, suggestions, and his
San Francisco Avenues group.
Posted in
Links and Dairyu
Michael Wenger cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1993 Wind Bell volume 27,
issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 84 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Went out this
morning at six in the kayak for floating zazen. Hours at the Zenbook.
Now later afternoon. Ocean breeze, kelapa muda - young coconut - as is -
drinking with straws from the severed top. Just tried it with a bit of
lemon first time. Good. Dogs here are nice, playful, romp in the
tidepools, sit at our feet - nothing to protect, no walls, almost no
doors. Local color - the staff, five, all family, watch Indonesian TV -
outnumbering the guests now just Katrinka and me as the day guests have
left to catch their boats. Little rat that lives under the deck just
grabbed a paper napkin and darted back in. - posted in
Saunters
10-16-14
-
Click to enlarge today's
photo, the fourth of Shunryu
Suzuki working with Bob Watkins at Tassajara in 1967 - SR0233 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes - but needs more notes. This is the fifth of six
stone work photos that will be posted.
That's Mike Daft in the middle of the photo. He was
a quiet, unassuming guy with a dry sense of humor. I wonder what happened
to him. I don't remember him beyond the first year or so of Tassajara.
Like many of those who'd been around longer, he called Suzuki, sensei, not
roshi. The only specific memory I have about Mike is that he told me that
once he was in Sokoji when no other students were around and Suzuki Sensei
and Okusan, his wife, were having an argument in the kitchen. Mike said
that Okusan got so frustrated she grabbed a big bunch of flowers out of a
vase and bashed her husband over the head with them. Mike tiptoed out,
deciding to talk to his teacher some other time. - posted in
posted on
Brief Memories
Updated the
Memorial Page a bit after putting
Rowena Pattee Kryder on it. Many names from the past not there. Just
started it a few years ago. Searched for "rip," "dead," "passed," and
"dies" in this year and last's What's New. Added about a half dozen,
among them Chris Pirsig who was mentioned recently. His brother sent
some comments and a correction adding to
the
page for the song for him. If you think of someone not there just
sent it - Contact DC. - DC
Had to get a motorbike ride into the village to upload. I
guess this is a village. Welcome to Bali Edo Deli. Didn't realize at first
that we've got the only guest cabin at LOA. Their main business is people
who come around to the mangrove area of Lembongan for a look, to have a
drink or a meal. That's how we came the first time. Our boat arrived at
ten in the morning and before it left at 3pm, we had a driver take us
around on the bumpy roads to see the seaweed farms and views. We stopped
here in the Mangroves for lunch, walked around, and found this place - the
only place here to stay we know of other than a homestay down a ways
across the road. Yesterday and today a group of about twenty Japanese
followed a guide down the beach to somewhere. Way off in the distance we
can see Bali's highest Mt. Agung beyond the snorkel boats and deep blue
water. - posted in
Saunters
10-15-14 -
Shunryu Suzuki student and visionary artist Rowena Pattee Kryder passed
away on October 11th. See note from her family and from Friends
of Rowena on the
Rowena Pattee Kryder page - thanks Paul Shippee
Farewell Rowena. See you in my visions. - DC
The Awakened
World International Film Festival October 27-30, Santa Barbara,
CA. - recommended by John Steiner - posted in
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Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1992 Wind Bell volume 26,
issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 83 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
For over a month now been putting beaucout time into reviewing and
organizing the history of work with Shunryu Suzuki transcripts and will
be posting this earlier work on cuke and shunryusuzuki.com and
systematically featuring it bit by bit on What's New. While preserving
this pioneering work and linking to the efforts of others, will continue
developing our presentation and expanding the archive of material
lightly edited for readability and your viewing and listening pleasure.
A special thanks to those who've helped recently, especially Peter Ford
in Tennessee who toils daily in the depths of the cuke mines. - DC -
posted in What We're Doing
Son Kelly's mom Daya Goldschlag used to kayak around the SF Bay all the
time. Katrinka's son Seth left us the inflatable kayak he brought and
today for the first time kayaked. Went out to where the boats bring folks
to snorkle and scuba and a skipper of one little rig, Maxi, suggested we
trade for a while. Climbed into his boat and he into mine. A nice
interlude talking with a Spaniard and a Jakartan who loaned me his mask
and snorkle so I could inspect the brightly colored fish below. Paddling
back came upon a snorkler the back of whose head, posterior, and heels
reminded me of Katrinka. It was she. Had wadded and swum out. Tried to tow
her back in but it was too hard so had to leave her out there with the
coral and starfish. - posted in
Saunters
10-14-14
-
Click to enlarge today's photo,
the third of Shunryu
Suzuki working with Bob Watkins at Tassajara in 1967 - Bob offstage to the
left SR0232 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes - but needs more notes. This is the forth of six
stone work photos that will be posted.
To find out more about Bob
or anyone mentioned on cuke, just put their name in the search box up top
on this page or on the home page and see what comes up.
cuke photos
page
Here's the
5th of five Gordon Geist light edits of Shunryu
Suzuki lectures that were missing from the
collection of now 51 of them from him on
shunryusuzuki.com. See post
below on 10-02-14 for the 1st and more info.
Lecture given on
70-05-10 -
was the source for the chapter of
Not Always So
called "Not Sticking to Enlightenment" on p. 131. -
the light edit
A page for that
lecture and click on Minimum Edit Transcript
--- posting on
cuke's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture posts page newly created today just for you
and so that the main
lecture page can be spiffy and unencumbered with all those notes.
Ride over with boxes of tile and a few other fureigners taking twice as
long as the fast boats. The Bay of Bali was fairly calm but after a wave
of dizzy hit when I wrote a note, put the pad away and stared at the sea
ahead. Lembongan, an island that's part of the Province of Bali. We're
staying at Loa Beach House
Mangroves - owned by Japanese which right now is all can get on that
site - look at the photos. The Internet here is okay. This is more like
the image one gets thinking of Bali. Walked out a couple hundred yards in
shallow warm sea in aqua shoes careful not to step on any coral or
starfish. - posted in
Saunters
A tennis story.
10-13-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1992 Wind Bell volume 26,
issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 82 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Click to enlarge today's photo of Bob Watkins at Tassajara in 1967
taken at the same time as the photo posted yesterday - Suzuki's head to
the right. SR0231 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes - but needs more notes. This is the third of six
stone work photos that will be posted.
cuke photos
page
Got everything packed up today for our landlords to store
down the street at the home while we're away for 18 days. Nice old Nyoman
was to come at five to truck it down but he arrived four hours early with
more boxes and was a great help getting everything ready - fitted stuff in
containers, taped boxes and wrote our names on them, and a lot more.
Tomorrow morning he'll drive us and other stuff to the 10am boat for
Lembongan. Have to wade into the water to get on it. I've watched people
boarding the early one when I've walked down there in the morning to have
tea at a little stand on the beach. Katrinka gave Nyoman some cheese and
homemade sambul which is what they call their salsa - but this is her
Mexicanish version.
Got a bunch of Suzuki lecture early edits to get together
before going to sleep - 85 or so of them the only edited versions we've
got. Now there are only the verbatim versions of these posted on
shunryusuzuki.com. Soon the
early edits will be there as well. And will feature them one by one here
on cuke when the Wind Bell lecture series is finished in a couple of
months.
Oh yes - the Internet might not be so good where we're
going for the next eight days. Hope I can upload. - dc -
posted in
Saunters
10-12-14 - From Hideko Oga: My friend, Rev. Akiyama sent me an e-mail but
he forgot the photo to attach. Then, he responded – ”I
sent you one of the most important Buddhist teachings in my last email,
‘Attachment is empty.' --- posted on
Tozen Akiyama's cuke page
Click to enlarge today's photo of Shunryu
Suzuki working with Bob Watkins at Tassajara in 1967. SR0230 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes - but needs more notes. This is the 2nd of six
stone work photos that will be posted.
To find out more about Bob
or anyone mentioned on cuke, just put their name in the search box up top
on this page or on the home page and see what comes up.
cuke photos
page
Here's the
4th of four Gordon Geist light edits of Shunryu
Suzuki lectures used in Not Always So that were missing from the
collection on
shunryusuzuki.com. See post
below on 10-02-14 for the 1st and more info. The 2nd one went up on the
4th and the third on the 8th.
Lecture given on
71-02-12-B -
was the source for the chapter of
Not Always So
called "Not Sticking to Enlightenment" on p. 131. -
the light edit
A page for that
lecture with links to other versions and audio.
--- posting on
cuke's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture posts page newly created today just for you
and so that the main
lecture page can be spiffy and unencumbered with all those notes.
On this day in 1903 my father, Kelroy Utley Chadwick, was born.
Here's
something I posted on him on Father's Day, 2007
Bule, or foreigners, sometimes warn that you can't trust locals in biz
deals but Widya, our landlady has twice returned a goodly sum of loot that
she said we'd overpaid for rent. They're very responsive as in having
ceiling fans installed when we asked and storing all our stuff in an
interim while we're gone for 18 days before returning with social and
cultural visas and moving back in next door. Then for six months we won't
have to leave. I promised Katrinka while we're gone I wouldn't work
over eight hours in a day. I think she's got an exaggerated idea about
that. - posted in
Saunters
10-11-14 -
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1991 Wind Bell volume 25, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 81 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize -
most deserving. All praise to them. - dc
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
“ZEN
AT WAR” BRIAN VICTORIA:
THROWING BOMBS AT KODO
– by Jundo Cohen in Sweeping Zen -
posted in the Brian Victoria
cuke page with a great photo of Brian and Kodo.
photo lifted from Sweeping Zen site
Gasoline here in Indonesia is subsidized and is about half
that in the US which is half that in Europe and in Indonesia it went up by
44% last year and is getting ready to go up by at least that much again
early next year. Taxis are pretty cheap now but transport and food prices
will rise. People will not be happy about that. Maybe mass transit will
improve and the plethora of vehicles will diminish, their sizes shrink.
Sunset time - outside it's glowing pink. - posted in
Saunters
10-10-14 - Here's the
3rd of four Gordon Geist light edits of Shunryu
Suzuki lectures used in Not Always So that were missing from the
collection on
shunryusuzuki.com. See post
below on 10-02-14 for the 1st and more info. The 2nd one went up on the
4th and the third on the 8th.
Lecture given on
70-03-15 -
was the source for the chapter of
Not Always So
called "Everyday Life is like a Movie" on p. 49. -
the light edit
A page for that
lecture with links to other versions and audio.
--- posting on
cuke's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture posts page newly created today just for you
and so that the main
lecture page can be spiffy and unencumbered with all those notes.
For the whole archive go to
shunryusuzuki.com
Gorden Geist memories
of SR - 15 years ago
Click to enlarge today's photo of Shunryu
Suzuki working with Phillip Wilson at Tassajara in 1967 or 68. SR00094 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes - but needs more notes. This is the first of six
stone work photos that will be posted.
cuke photos
page
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 25
- 1987
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Katrinka has found that hanging some charred bamboo helps
with the smell of things as it absorbs odors caused by dampness or making
bathrooms without the proper
traps to
create a barrier to noxious odors which are common here in Asia including
Japan. - posted in
Saunters
10-09-14 - Dennis McNally has a new book:
On Highway 61:
Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
That book hasn't made it yet to
Dennis' Amazon book page
Click to enlarge today's photo of Shunryu
Suzuki in monk's begging gear on one of his visits to Japan from the US.
That's Hoitsu his son to the left and maybe members of the Sokoji San
Francisco congregation to the right. SR0176 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes but needs more notes.
cuke photos
page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1991 Wind Bell volume 25, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 80 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Earliest
example of human art found in Indonesia - I guess the
word "human" is extra but it sounds better to me with it - dc- posted in
Saunters because it's
what's happening in these parts.
10-08-14
-
Click to enlarge today's photo of Shunryu
Suzuki in the background with the high ceremonial hat. Maybe that's
Maezumi to his right. SR0152 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes
cuke photos
page
Here's the 3rd of four Gordon Geist light edits of
Shunryu Suzuki lectures used in Not Always So that were missing from the
collection on
shunryusuzuki.com. See post
below on 10-02-14 for the 1st and more info. The 2nd one went up on the
4th.
Lecture given on
71-02-12 -
was the source for the chapter "Not Sticking to Enlightenment" on p. 131. -
the light edit
A page for that
lecture with links to other versions and audio.
--- posting on
cuke's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture page but for the whole archive go to
shunryusuzuki.com
Gorden Geist memories
of SR - 15 years ago
Jerry Bollick's blog and
poetry.
Jerry Bolick
on his history with the Buddhist Bookstore and Ananda
Claude Dalenberg
Just getting ready to watch the rising of a full moon in full eclipse.
Here's
a page for it for Denpasar. Lots of ceremonies going on. Fantastic
music and processions on the beach, one with a row of at least 100 women
dressed in beautiful traditional garb balancing tall baskets of offerings
on their heads followed by men in white playing dreamy gamelan music. They
came down the street to the beach onto the sand then down it the back up
to some temple.
- posted with representative photo in
Saunters
10-07-14 - Mark Foote writes: Here's
one for ya: a piece on Fuxi's poem (as translated by Andy Ferguson) that
I hope represents a coherent description of practice:
Zen Mudra - Fuxi
posting on
Others Contribute
Click to enlarge today's photo of Shunryu
Suzuki with Yvonne Rand in his study and meeting room at Page St. City
Center in SF. SR0002 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes
cuke photos
page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1990 Wind Bell volume 24, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 79 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Some drizzles this morning. First precipitation in a couple of months as I
recall. - posted in
Saunters
10-06-14 - Some early
pages of Snail Zen by Marian Derby - in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Marian Derby Wisberg cuke page
And just added this note to Marian's cuke page:
Massive correspondence between Fran and Marian is now in
the cuke archives - too much to process and post though someone else can
do it later. - DC
- Click to enlarge today's photo of a bunch
of us after some ceremony at Tassajara before or after the official posed
photo - probably after my shusho, head monk, ceremony in the spring of
1974. - DC Not from the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes though there is probably the same photo there. The
last
of four from Richard Baker scanned in Crestone, Colorado.
cuke photos
page
Chris Pirsig was a student at the San Francisco Zen Center who was
murdered in a random killing while he was walking down the Laguna Street
in 1979. I wrote a song after his funeral. Here's a page on Defuser Music
for that song with the words and a link to a recording I made at the time.
It's called
And
We'll Miss You.
- DC
10-05-14 - Here is
a link to the 4-minute trailer for
Painting Peace: The Art and Life of Kazuaki Tanahashi
Kazuaki Tanahashi cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1990 Wind Bell volume 24, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 78 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
A Gamelan medley
- posted in
Saunters
10-04-14
- Click to enlarge today's photo of Shunryu
Suzuki in front of his cabin at Tassajara. Not from the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes though there is probably the same photo there. This
is a cropped one I think - maybe from opening day. One
of four from Richard Baker scanned in Crestone, Colorado.
cuke photos
page
Here's the 2nd light edit of two (now four) Gordon Geist
light edits of Shunryu Suzuki lectures used in Not Always So that were missing from the
collection on
shunryusuzuki.com. See post
below on 10-02-14 for the 1st and more info.
69-06-22 -
Direct Experience of Reality -
the light edit
A page for that
lecture with links to other versions and audio.
--- posting on
cuke's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture page but for the whole archive go to
shunryusuzuki.com
Happy
Birthday to Kelly Chadwick, born this day 41 years ago at Green Gulch farm
in the little room above the kitchen at the top of the stairs. Thanks to
Daya Goldschlag for the enormous effort she made in giving birth. Check
out Kelly's biz, Spirit Pruners
- in Spokane, WA. - Good going Kelly. - your loving father, DC
- posted in
family
For the 2nd day in a row, there was several hours of traditional
Indonesian gamelan music coming from the school next door. Here's
a few minutes of
simple gamelan music with explanatory notes. What was coming from the
school was more complicated and varied with occasional vocals
- posted in
Saunters
10-03-14 - Join Barbara Wenger at the Nov. 5 Greens dinner and
event in San Francisco
celebrating twenty years of Community Grows.
Explore Community Grows
posted in
Ads and Announcements and Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Photo of folks at The Lighthouse
Bali, a substance abuse program center Katrinka has been involved
with. Click on thumbnail to see photo larger on Saunters page.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1989 Wind Bell volume 23, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 77 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Kazuaki Tanahashi answers question about character Shunryu Suzuki used
after his name in
calligraphy for Beginner's Mind posted yesterday.
叟
(pronounced "sō" meaning "Old Man."
Thanks Kaz - DC
Kazuaki Tanahashi cuke page
10-02-14
- Today's image is Shunryu Suzuki's calligraphy for Beginner's Mind that
was scanned from a first edition of Zen Mind,
Beginner's Mind.
click on thumbnail to see
it large and read more.
Going through what transcripts we have and making a chart.
Gordon Geist in Norway did a bunch of light edits of verbatim Shunryu
Suzuki lectures including all of the lectures that comprised Not Always
So, a collection of Suzuki's lectures edited by Edward Brown. Gordon
translated it into Norwegian as he did ZMBM. He did all that years ago. I
noticed in the chart that there were two (now four) Suzuki lectures that were part of
Not Always So that didn't have light edits by Gordon so I emailed him and
he sent them. I forwarded them to Peter Ford who operates
shunryusuzuki.com these days
and he included them there. So here's the first one:
69-03-09
- Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha -
the light edit
A page for that
lecture with links to other versions and audio.
--- posting on
cuke's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture page which is a big mess but there are lots of cool
links on it for enthusiasts. But it's not organized and much more complete
like
shunryusuzuki.com
USF John Nelson eight month Far West Passage Blog -
Bali page.
And be sure to see the post about his new book,
Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan,
at 9-29-14 below. - a
-
Saunters guest post
Thinking about ISIS or IS or ISIL in light of having just read Brian
Victoria's War on Zen --- (Brian
Victoria cuke page).
I have noticed certain unwholesome thoughts arising that
I don't think are helpful. So I'm making an effort to replace them with
the visualization of all the weapons disappearing. That won't be much help
to people who are being massacred but that's the best I can do now. When I
was in high school I'd say I'd let someone kill me before I'd fight back.
I never have been in a fight. I hit a kid once in the sixth grade just to
see what it was like and I still feel bad about it. A dear friend of mine
who shared my thoughts that Pres Reagan was causing a lot of suffering
said she wished he were dead and I said I don't think that's a good thing
to wish for anyone. So I have a history of pacifist leanings but also of
thoughts of extinction which I give in to at times but which once again
I'm wishing to extinguish. I do think that there is a general world-wide
tendency to use violence to solve problems. That seems to keep proving
that violence leads to violence. I also think that Gandhi's methods would
not have worked so well with ISIS or Sadam Husein or Hitler. We never know
what we're going to do until a moment arrives but we do take aim with
intentions and thought habits. There have been pilots who reported they
tried to shoot down a UFO and that their controls wouldn't work - so see -
there's proof positive that such technology can be developed here. That's
what I'm visualizing. - DC - posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
10-01-14
- Congratulations
to Chris Rand and Francesca Stauffacher on getting hitched. Chris is
the son of
Yvonne
Rand and recently departed
Kendrick Rand. I
remember Chris from 66 when I first arrived at Sokoji. He's the guy who
makes the Ten
Thousand Year Clocks.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1989 Wind Bell volume 23, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 76 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Some Bali observations
Humming kites, humming and whistling bamboo poles stuck in
rocks or sand at the windy beach. - more in
Saunters
September
9-30-14
- Click to enlarge today's
photo of Shunryu Suzuki in monk's begging gear taken in Japan at his
temple Rinsoin. Not from the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes though there is probably the same photo there. One
of four from Richard Baker scanned in Crestone, Colorado.
Thinking
of the following quote from Hamlet: ‘There are more things in
Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Got it
from
Falling Through the Ice: The Path of a Zen Methodist by John Hiestand
whose mom and sis sat with Shunryu Suzuki in Los Alto. More on that book
tomorrow.
Going to Mandiri bank to get an ATM card that a machine ate on
Sunday. - more in
Saunters
9-29-14
-
Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan
by John K. Nelson
Read about this book here or
here
John Nelson is Professor of East Asian religions in the Department of
Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco.
Here's
his faculty profile.
He gave a
talk recently at the SFZC City Center.
Click to enlarge today's
photo - not from the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes though there may be the same photo there. One of
four from Richard Baker scanned in Crestone, Colorado. Richard and
Virginia Baker with Shunryu Suzuki. Richard is departing for - will ask
him later. - DC
Will put it on the cuke photos
page
Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1988 Wind Bell volume 22, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 75 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
An Aussie and Brit term for drunk is "blind." Phillip,
the blind Brit next door, drinks Bintang, the local beer, rather
continuously with his assistant Nyoman. - more in
Saunters
9-28-14
- Mitsu Suzuki, Shunryu's widow, with DC back in April when Katrinka and I
visited with her. This was a couple of weeks before her 100th birthday.
That's her daughter Harumi in the background. Photo by
Katrinka McKay
click on thumbnail to enlarge or
just go to her cuke page.
See Saunters
page for April 7th and 8th for report on that visit with Mitsu Suzuki, AKA
Mrs. Suzuki, Suzuki Sensei, Okusan.
- this posted in -
Saunters too
Yes it's Mike Dixon in yesterday's photo. Adding it to
his cuke page. Check it out.
9-27-14
-
Click to enlarge today's
photo - SRC0080 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
Not sure who this is and it's not in the notes on
shunryusuzuki.com. I think maybe it's Mike Dixon. Will ask. - DC
Yes it's Mike Dixon. And don't know who the kid is.
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit,
What to Do When You're
Running Out of Time
- posted in
Climate Change - thanks Taigen
Rebecca Solnit dot net
Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1988 Wind Bell volume 22, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 74 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Putting more hours into current cuke project of getting the early
Shunryu Suzuki lecture transcripts ready to include in the archive and
feature one by one here on cuke. This is not the early Los Altos
transcripts which are already on cuke and shunryusuzuki.com. It's all
the ones that existed before the verbatim project at around the turn of
the century and were used in making the verbatim lectures checked
against the audio and then forgotten - except in cases where the audio
was lost in which case they were gone over and named unverbatim. The
verbatims and unverbatims are all featured on shunryusuzuki.com. There
are some of those early ones on the cuke lecture page from posts way
back, but most have been in storage and it's time they were recognized
again. Will start featuring them when done with featuring the Suzuki
lectures from the Windbells which are another batch of early
transcripts. So that's one thing that's happening at cuke industries
these days. - DC - posted on
What We're Doing
cuke lecture page and
shunryusuzuki.com
Continuing from yesterday, Seth also noted that women here still
can be seen carrying large loads on their heads - departing the market or
just going down a sidewalk. Also - families on motorbikes like yesterday a
daddy driving with mommy behind with baby and daughter behind her. - posted in
Saunters
9-26-14
- Click to enlarge today's photo - SRC0151
in the Shunryu Suzuki
photo archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 24
- 1987
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Common Misconceptions about Global Warming - from IFL Science {I
Fuckin Love Science] - Thanks Seth Eppes
- posted in
Climate Change
Katrinka's son Seth leaving today after two weeks climbed Mt. Agung
(not easy), loved the surfing, body-boarding, snorkeling (especially in
Lombongan), loved how friendly and polite the people were, noticed the
beautiful beach accented by the shiny, fit people from the personal
trainers conference, empty restaurants that somehow stay open, the dense
traffic flows well close together crossing passing etc harmonious where in
America that density in such small an infrastructure would have jams and
gunfights, says venders would do better if they didn't hassle people as
much, some could make a good living selling beach sun chairs in a vender
free zone, wonders why there are so few sea birds. -
Saunters
9-25-14 -
RIP Rudy Hurwich and condolences to his daughter Lynn.
Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1987 Wind Bell volume 21, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 73 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
The Rehearsal Room - Ran into
Richard and a friend of his in line at a store and turned them on to
Warung Kayu Api where they invited us out and then we turned them on to a
driver we like whom they were quite pleased with, commenting on what a
good driver he is. We agree, but to me that's the norm around here. It's
also the norm for bule or foreigners to get stopped if they're driving a
car or motorbike as mentioned several times before. Yesterday Seth was
going surfing with Scott who got pulled over by a cop for stopping at a
red light before turning left - they don't stop here. Cop wanted a million
rupia ($84) but settled for 200,000 cause that's all they had. Scott
called it getting a DWW - driving while white. - posted in
Saunters
9-24-14
- Donn Deangelo's Montage of
his Shunryu Suzuki photo with the Heart Sutra
Brian
Victoria's War on Zen - an article by Brian Victoria in Sweeping
Zen.
Brian
Victoria cuke page
I'm not a soda drinker but found it interesting to hear that
some soda drinkers here preferred the Cokes here to those in the US
because in the US they use corn syrup and here it's sugar. And then the
conversation went to how diet drinks are far worse than sugar sodas -
cause more weight gain and diabetes.
We drink fruit
juice here with no sugar both fresh and packaged and the latter, even
though it's all natural isn't supposed to be that good an idea. Mainly
eating the whole fruit is the thing to do. Plenty of that around here.
- posted in
Saunters
9-23-14 - Larry Cooper's film Tassajara 1968 now at
shunryusuzuki.com in low
resolution
(thanks Peter Ford)
for easier loading in addition to the bigger file that was there. Check it
out at this
link or at the site's
video page.
And
here's Larry's original note about the film on the cuke video page -
followed by a bit
written on it when it was first uploaded.
Click to enlarge today's photo - SRC0002 in
the Shunryu Suzuki
photo archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
photo by Rowena Kryder.
And please remember
Visionary Artist
Rowena needs our help -
Rowena Pattee Kryder page
Michael Katz at the New York City Climate March two days ago with
his sister Carol, and SFZC alum Dian Woodner ran into David
Zimmerman, Linda Ruth Cutts and Steve Weintraub and his sister, Teah
Strozer, Susan O'Connell, and
lively folk
from Brooklyn ZC. The Buddhists were crushed together in one place,
creating their own warmth and humidity. In typical fashion I didn't
stay in one spot, wandered around with Dian and Carol, saw the
wonderful Bread and Puppet floats and other great sights and sounds.
One thing I'll say New Yorkers are incredibly warm and friendly,
especially cops. Carol moved a wooden barricade to get through and a
cop came over to make sure she didn't get a splinter. A black guy
offered me his seat on the train coming in -- I must have crossed a
rubicon of dodderyness.
- posted in
cuke Sangha news and linked to from
Climate Change
Water
rafting today with Katrinka and her son Seth - class three, not
scary, lots of fun, and beautiful jungle.
Here's the site for the
folks who do it. One thing I thought about was how non-authoritarian our
raft captain was and same in other endeavors in SE Asia - gentle
reminders, no drama, smiles. -
Saunters
9-22-14 -
Yesterday's
climate rallies - BBC
300,000 in NYC - Huff Post
China
Co2 levels per captita exceed Europe with India not far behind - BBC
World sets carbon record - Huff Post
posted in
Climate Change
Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1987 Wind Bell volume 21, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 72 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Looking at a kids book with maps of the provinces and islands of
Indonesia. - posted in
dc misc 4
Oops. Forgot to post a photo.
9-21-14 - Logistics for
today's Climate March in NYC.
Say
hi for me. - dc
posted in
Climate Change
L
to R - Andrew Atkeison, Michael Stusser, Tozen Akiyama, and Zoshi Takayuki
in the Meditation Garden at Stusser's
Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary.
Tozen on cuke
Andrew Atkeison cuke page
Zoshi is a wood sculptor.
- dc
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 22
- 1987
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
It's getting warmer. - posted in
Saunters
9-20-14 - Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1986 Wind Bell volume 20, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 71 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Click
to enlarge today's photo - SR00094 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
Rowena Kryder bio
- books
by and about
And please remember
Visionary Artist
Rowena needs our help - -
Rowena Pattee Kryder page
When we
were departing Malaysia last time (where we went because we have to
leave Indonesia every two months) there was no one else in line so there
were two immigration officers to take care of us. I made some comment
about us being the only ones there and one of them said that's because
all the planes were grounded and none could take off till later that
day. I said, "Really?" He said, "No Just kidding," and laughed. I told
him he was the only immigration officer from any country that I'd ever
heard crack a joke. - posted in
Saunters
9-19-14 - Sorry I can't make the
People's Climate March
on September 21st in NYC.
Say hi for me. - DC -
posted in
Climate Change
In memoriam Niels Holm. Two photos by Gregory Johnson just taken in
Port Townsend, WA posted on the
Niels Holm
Memorial Page.
Here's
one. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge.
Look for his name on a
stone.
That's today's photo.
Talking to old-timers here and people who've lived in
third world countries there are those who contend not only that people
were happier before progress, but that they were wealthier. Our driver
Ketut tells me sometimes how troubled he is. He's got three properties to
make payments and build on, three vehicles to keep up, children to
educate. Seems to me that the world economic system tends to emphasize
short term profit for investors and maximum growth rather than emphasizing
the welfare and happiness of human beings or even the survival of the
human race. - posted in
Saunters
9-18-14 - From the SFZC
-
Everyday Enlightenment: Shunryu Suzuki’s Expression of Zen Practice
led by Abiding Abbot Rinso Ed Sattizahn
September 30 - December 6
Residential, commuter and online options available
- posted in Ads &
Announcements
Click
to enlarge today's photo - SR0175 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
Heard some good paranormal stories. - in Saunters
9-17-14
-
Click to enlarge today's photo - SR0151 in
the Shunryu Suzuki
photo archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1986 Wind Bell volume 20, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 70 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Tennis report - in Saunters
9-16-14 -
Having won the International Warren Harding Award for Most Boring Website
Presentation for cuke.com every year for over a decade, we've decided to
start including a thumbnail photo with each day's post (Click on it to
enlarge). Info presented with photos works better on websites. Research
has shown that info with a photo is remembered better - even if the photo
is unrelated. Haven't done this because 1 - It takes time, 2 - it makes
the file bigger and shower to load 3 - Didn't care - just want to keep
uploading stuff without any standards. But the vote of the steering
committee is to try to be more appealing. Dog photos would probably work
best, but we have all these low res photos of Shunryu Suzuki so we'll go
through them. This photo with notes
is here higher
res as SR0001 at
shunryusuzuki.com. - DC
- Posting this note on the cuke photos
page but not the following photo thumbnail posts.
Here's a more accurate version of
Shunryu
Suzuki lecture #12 on the Lotus Sutra from the fall of 1968. Lecture
name 68-10-00-K surely given later on in November but most of these
lectures weren't dated so they were named that way a while back. This will
be added to
shunryusuzuki.com where the
link to that
lecture is this. A text file of this PDF should replace the existing
work in progress. Not going to do that now though because Peter Ford who
manages the site is being inundated by me with emails about a transcript
project we're involved with.
Don't know why this transcript by the meticulous Brian Fikes is not in
the transcript archive. I found it about a year ago comparing old
transcript collections from the SFZC with what we've got now and included
it in a group to be scanned. There still might be some others that haven't
made it to the current so called complete archive. When I get back to the
States I plan to see that all those old transcripts are carefully checked
again to make sure there's not some other transcripts that could be added
- among tons of other archive stuff to go through in storage. - DC -
posting this in the
cuke Suzuki lecture section.
Two marriages. - in
Saunters - 2013-14 trip notes
9-15-14
- There will be a viewing of Rowena Pattee Kryder's art later this month
in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, USA.
Here's the invite.
And please remember
Visionary Artist
Rowena needs our help - -
Rowena Pattee Kryder page
And Rowena's situation makes me think of the
Zen Aluminati
- not forgetting those among us who are old, sick, lonely, forgotten.
The Zen of “The Zen of Steve Jobs” - Adding yet another to the
on the Kobun page in
the Kobun-Jobs-Zen area
On transport, posh mall, and recycling. - in
Saunters
A review of DC's first book from 1994, Thank You
and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
Zeleski in Publisher's
Weekly - light scan, good review
Thank You
and OK! home page
9-14-14 - Weird - Had today's cuke all ready to load but was so caught up
in working with the Suzuki transcripts forgot about it so what was for
this day will be for the next. - dc
9-13-14 - Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 21
- 1986
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? -
Most interesting from Steve Silberman, but the Tassajara connection
doesn't ring a bell. If you have any memories of this please write. -
posted that a couple of years ago (2-15-12). Adding it to the
on the Kobun page in
the Kobun-Jobs-Zen area.
A good article on global warming from the Houston Chron -
posted in
Climate Change
Incidentally, my 2nd cousin is about to become governor there. - DC -
posted in
dc misc 4
We don't worry about things getting stolen here like some countries.
It can happen though. - more in
Saunters
9-12-14 -
Mayumi Oda
Book Signing and Fundraiser for PZI
(Pacific Zen Institute) September 29 in Oakland
- posted in Ads
& Announcements
John
Sheehy (who's researching Reed/Zen/Lloyd Renolds) wrote after
reading yesterday's post from Gregory MacNaughton on Kobun Chino and
Steve Jobs and DC's piece on Kobun - some interesting stuff here. - dc
Read it on
the Kobun page in
the Kobun-Jobs-Zen area
Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1985 Wind Bell volume 19, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 69 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Happy
Birthday to my sister Susan. I hope that the very expensive gift I shipped
to you arrives today. - Your loving brother D.
Another Bali film
from 1932. Dua
Gadis Bali tempo dulu
[Two girls of the old days]
- posted in Saunters
9-11-14 - Posting better versions of her famous to us
photo of Shunryu Suzuki taken
by Rowena (Leary) Pattee Kryder - The original color and an uncropped
black and white. Posting on the Photos page at the bottom. wrote about -
it can be downloaded from
shunryusuzuki.com photo section in low or hi res. It's SRC0001 or in
BnW as SR0063. Including the story below of Layla and Jim Bockhorst saw it
when visiting Rowena and persuaded her to let the SFZC use it.
And please remember
Visionary Artist
Rowena needs our help - One of Suzuki
Roshi's early students, Rowena (Leary) Pattee Kryder is in poor
health and reaching out for assistance, both financial and help in finding
an assisted living facility. - thanks John Sheehy -
Rowena Pattee Kryder page
The Zen of Steve Jobs, Kobun Chino Otogawa and Japan
- thanks
Gregory MacNaughton who sent it as part of a discussion
with Reed Zen alumni. DC responded: I don't know about
Jobs sitting at the SFZC zendo, rather the Los Altos zendo. All I know
about Jobs and Tassajara is that Kobun brought him there one day to show
it to him. I mention more about Jobs and Kobun in a piece I wrote that's
at the top of the Kobun page. If anyone knows more, please let me know.
Kobun Chino cuke page
Was reminded in the Bali
Advertiser today how good the weather is here. It's been
perfect for months. Going to get a little hot now but never too hot for
too long I hear. I didn't expect it to be so good. An American who's been
here since the seventies said this is an unusually cool dry season. They
don't say winter and other seasons here - just wet and dry.
Another plus is being able to swim every day which I do quickly in ten
laps after yoga in the hotel pool next door which we can use. And a real
plus is not experiencing the excess of chlorine we get in the States due,
I'm sure, to overzealous health departments. No eye burn or even
irritating odor - just enough to keep it clear. And then there's the ocean
which is always just right.
But I spend a lot more time at this computer than anything else. Just did
days of maintenance. Nice place to do it though.
- posted in Saunters
Remembering those who died in Manhattan on 9-11-2001 and how our
government ignored the sympathy of the world instead deciding to fan the
flames of Jihad. - dc -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
9-10-14 - Brian Victoria:
The "Non-self"
as a Killer - an addenda in Sweeping Zen to his two part Zen
Masters on the Battlefield featured herein earlier.
Brian
Victoria cuke page
A review of DC's first book from 1994, Thank You
and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
Spokane
Spokesman
Thank You
and OK! home page
Birds in trouble
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
One product Katrinka has noticed in Asian countries is all the skin
lighteners, whitening creams, in the pharmacies and health and beauty
emporiums. Many dark women from Asia want to be lighter and many light
women from the West want to be darker.
- posted in Saunters
9-09-14 -
Joel Weishaus on meeting Soen Nakagawa
from Soen Nakagawa Roshi dot
com - Remembering Soen Nakagawa Roshi
Joel Weishaus cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1985 Wind Bell volume 19, issue 1.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 68 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
Greenhouse Gas rate accelerating
- posted in
Climate Change
A note from Katrinka to DC sister Susan who just returned to US
from visiting us.
- posted in Saunters
9-08-14 - Lew Richmond
writes:
I have been invited by
the new online magazine ContemplativeJournal.com to lead a 4-week online
class on Aging as a Spiritual Practice during October 2014. The class
will run for 4 weeks, will be fully interactive, with opportunity for
realtime discussion. In each class I will give a talk on a topic from my
book, teach a contemplative exercise from the book (or a new one), and
have Q & A and open discussion. The class will be recorded so people
who missed it can tune in any time. There will also be weekly readings
written especially for the class, a blog-type discussion forum, and
other features. I am excited about this opportunity to teach Aging as a
Spiritual Practice more widely in this way. For information or to
register click here:
Aging as a Spiritual Practice Online Class
Lew Richmond cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki on
paradox - an email and response about whether Suzuki really said that.
Subject: Suzuki quote and internet arguing
In the course of making
this page, realized that a special page
-
Shunryu Suzuki quotes and excerpts from lectures
and memories - would be useful so gathered put this exchange there and added
pre-existing links to other related material. Enjoy. - dc
New Galaxy Map Relocates The Milky Way To A Ginormous
Supercluster Called
Laniakea - Huff Post
DC Posted
this comment there - more in
dc misc 4
Check out this wonderful
film by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
Trance and Dance in
Bali - thanks Michael Katz (who worked with Gregory
Bateson and brought him to the SFZC where he spent a lot of time and
passed on)
- posted in
Saunters
9-07-14 -
Visionary Artist
Rowena needs our help
One of Suzuki
Roshi's early students, Rowena (Leary) Pattee Kryder is in poor
health and reaching out for assistance, both financial and help in finding
an assisted living facility. - thanks John Sheehy
- posted in Ads
& Announcements and
Aluminati updates
Rowena Pattee Kryder page
Coincidentally, the poor copy of the photo of Shunryu Suzuki that comes up
when you click on the link to A Short Talk During Zazen below in the Wind
Bell, is the photo that Rowena took that is mentioned on
her cuke page.
Shunryu Suzuki
lecture from the 1984 Wind Bell volume 18, issue 2.
In the new presentation of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the
SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the
complete Wind Bells with cover images added - also links to the page on
shunryusuzuki.com where audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version
can be found. Today featuring # 67 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans
from Cuke Archives
I'm no good at bargaining. Remember back in 88 in Thailand would walk
into store, choose what I wanted, indicate it to Kelly who was 14 then,
walk out and let him haggle. I remember saying I was looking for "pants"
and creating giggles because that's used for underwear in a lot of places
with trousers the English for what we call pants in US. Here in Bali to
keep in bartering shape I force myself to insist on a low price say with a
driver - and then after they agree, give more, maybe even what they
wanted. To get rid of mounting change today I asked if a cashier would
give me bills for it which they won't always do and when he did so, left
it as the tip. - DC
Today's movie:
Bamboo homes and the Green School - CBS report - thanks
Susan
- posted in
Saunters
9-06-14 - Brought the
Shunryu
Suzuki Index up to date on the right column where Suzuki or Suzuki
student or contact related posts from What's New are separately listed.
That way someone who wants to see that sort of post history can skip the
foreign country observation, bleeding heart liberal, and lizard people
posts. Repeating posts like all the Suzuki lectures and Wind Bells and
Ananda's newsletters aren't repeated - they're mentioned up top. So zip
down it back a few years and see what's been done. - DC
Moved this 9-07-14 to it's own page now linked from that right column
so the right column now is empty but for the links to the Suzuki/Suzuki
student or contact related history stuff for the last few years.
Starting a page for Steve Frost,
a Catholic priest friend and confidant who sent a
thought-provoking note on death and consciousness. Need the page to gather
past and present links from Steve. - DC
If you liked yesterday's link to the 1944 Bali film,
try out the 20s.
Wonder why they don't film men? Bali women, incidentally, aren't so
available for dating like in Thailand. I hear that if you see an unmarried
Indonesian woman and Western man here, it's likely she's from Java or
another part of Indonesia. This is a place for the women to date the local
men and there is that. That's definitely the way it was 22 years ago. And
now since Eat, Pray, Love, I understand the number of available Western
women has increased. - posted in
Saunters
9-05-14 -
Remembering Suzuki Roshi - A talk given by Rev.
Edward Brown, Rev.
Peter Schneider, and Rev.
Les Kaye in honor of the 50th anniversary
of Suzuki Roshi's arrival in America, on Saturday, May 23, 2009, at City
Center. (from the SFZC site)
- What's with them using the "Rev." ??? I searched the site and don't find
that usual. Some people like Myo Lehey use it. It was used along with
sensei for Shunryu Suzuki until Alan Watts' letter of 1966 said it wasn't
right and that we should use "roshi" for him. Go to
that story from Crooked Cucumber on
the Alan Watts page.
- posted in
Suzuki Stories
A review of DC's first book from 1994, Thank You
and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
Austin Daily
Texan review - on the front page of the paper. Penguin publicist had
forgotten to include location of booksigning that night. I went into the
paper office that day to promote the book and they showed me the review
and said they'd tried to find out where the event was but failed. There
were still a bunch of people who knew from other sources like my own mass
mailing. Am not eager to do that sort of promotion again. I like throwing
stuff up here on cuke for whomever stumbles upon it. Like you. - dc
Thank You
and OK! home page
Alister Crooke on ISIS part one and
Part Two
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
It's dangerous to generalize and to compare. I just know what I
experience and comparing my experience here in Bali now with 22 years ago,
everyone seems more sophisticated. Back then a young employee named Ketut
would come sit in my lap to talk to me. Employees would nap in the open
when there was nothing to do. They'd crowed before the TV to watch a Hindu
drama. It's like we're a little more the same now. Maybe the life here is
speeding up due to Western influence. Same in other countries around here
too. Of course I mainly deal with people who deal with foreigners so that
has to be taken into account. But I notice that sort of thing quite a bit.
Bali
before the Japanese occupation
- a year before - on Youtube - Even back then the
roads looked good. They're pretty good now too. - posted in
Saunters
9-04-14 - An intro to
Beginner's Mind Zen Center - in Northridge, LA (CA) - teachers Peter
and Jane Schneider - from the SFZC Sangha News.
Peter
and Jane Schneider cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1984 Wind Bell volume
18, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 66 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Open mike at Annapurna in Sanur with buffet pay
what you want. We've eaten there a number of times recently. They call it
soul food but that's Bali soul food, not US. High quality eats and music.
Cool people.
Here's
their Facebook page.
Talked with a Swede there last night who does some import
export. He mentioned getting about four thousand dollars worth of
something shipped to Bali. It was late so he went to the port at Surabaya
about 400 kilometers away. The first person he asked about it said that it
would be hard to find. He kept getting answers like that so he talked to
the dock captain who said he remembered that shipment and that the Swede
could have it for a 100 million rupiahs (about twice what it cost). He
gave up, said you have to go through a local company that will guarantee -
that shipping a container on your own is not a good idea. He said they see
it as a gift. Wherever you are, gotta learn the rules of the road.
- posted in
Saunters
9-03-14 -- Jeri Marlowe sent a copy of a letter she received from her
brother-in-law, Alan Marlowe, back in 1972. That letter is now posted near
the bottom of this new cuke page
created for Alan with links to other entries.
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 20
- 1986
Only these three issues missing:
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 18
- 1986
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 19
- 1986
Cloud Hidden Friends
Issue 32 - 1990 or 91 - missing (or Zen Freethinker)
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Escalation Follies
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
We're back in Bali with new visas so we can stay here for sixty days -
with a pesky renewal after thirty. Just more ways for them to squeeze
money out of us. When you arrive you have to pay $35 (just up from 25)
entrance fee - that's in US dollars. It's hard to get the thirty day
renewal for less than $60 and not worth the trouble usually to try to save
on that. Our Aussie friend Rosemary went to East Timor cause she has
in-laws there and immigration there wanted a US dollar entrance fee and
she had none but they had an ATM that had them and it ate her card. It
took her the rest of the day to get in. Monday in KL (Kuala Lumpur) we
went to high tea at a woman' house. She was giving an air conditioner to
the school where we stay. The couple who run the school and their kids
were there as was Wai who started the school and her young son. I wish I
could describe the treats. Mainly Chinese but some Malay and rose apple
slices from Australia that were so sweet and fragrant. And no tea - water
and fruit juice. Yum.
- posted in
Saunters
9-02-14 -
Brian Victoria page
on The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Check out the top piece -
Zen
Masters on the Battlefield (Part II).
Brian
Victoria cuke page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1983 Wind Bell volume
17, issue 2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 65 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
There is much variety of dress for Muslim women from
casual with no indication they're Muslim to full burka which I've only
seen in airports a few times.
What's
the difference between a hijab, niqab and burka?
- BBC. One thing I do notice is the contrast when a woman in Muslim swim
wear which covers most of the body and a man in swim trunks are on the
beach and in the water, frequently with children, a baby. And then there's
a scene like seen at Bali airport two women covered but for the eyes in
beautiful attire, both the same, light brown with dark brown accents, with
two men in tee shirts and Bermuda shorts.
- posted in
Saunters
Dr. Falota has spent nine years working on a
site on Chinese medicine. No links yet but a neat home page. He's an
old cukester who's spent years in China.
9-01-14 -
International Day Against Nuclear Tests Should Push Us All to Demand
Global Zero - posted in
Species Threats, Nuclear
A review and a flier for
DC's first book from 1994, Thank You
and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
Steinberg - Santa Fe
New Mexican
Spokane Public Library
announcement of reading and booksigning (Over a hundred people showed up
but Penguin had failed to get any copies there in time)
Thank You
and OK! home page
Kuala Lumpur - Here for a few days to renew Indonesian visa. All I know is
the great food, endless multistory shining malls with almost everything
imaginable - cool and good for walking around in, lots of traffic on
endless freeways, wonderful hosts. The radio station we're listening to
emphasizes promoting a moderate Malaysia. Compared to Bali it's like being
in Europe. It's also humid and never cool so get out early to stroll
around. Eleven years ago stayed in a backpacker place, went to the Reggie
Bar, and played pool with Africans, walked around the
Petronas Towers,
then the tallest buildings in the world. It's so cool this time can use
Indonesian here if they don't speak English which most do. Today needed an
ATM and was told to go to Petronas. Thought they meant the tall buildings
far away but that's the name of an oil company and they just meant a
nearby service station. At the station laughed at the sign above where
cars park to get water and air (for free). It reads Angin & Air. The Angin
means air and the Air means water. I think they should call air Water to
make it even.
Here are a few previous posts
from last March about our hosts and the school where we stay plus links to
photos of us and to their site,
Learning Beyond Schooling.
-
posted in
Saunters
August
8-31-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1983 Wind Bell volume
17, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 64 of 110 selections (approximately). -
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Gary
Snyder reading Riprap - thanks Brit Pyland - posted in
cuke-The-arts -
writing
Selamat Hari Merdeka – Malaysia Independence Day 2014
As they did with Indonesian Independence day recently,
Google featured a Malay artist to recognize this day.
Susan my sister flew back to Oakland after a great two weeks visiting us
in Bali and we flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for a few days. Have to
leave Bali every sixty days. We return Tuesday and get new Visas on
arrival. A savvy driver friend told us he knew someone who would fix it so
we didn't have to leave next time. I'll do that if immigration says it's
okay but not if it's a sneaky thing. In 2003 I had lunch one day in a
little corner Bangkok restaurant and was joined by a US guy from another
table who said he'd just gotten out of three days in jail for doing that
there and was being kicked out of the country. Didn't matter that the
place that stamped his passport was one of many that advertise
prominently. He said that there was no room to lie down in the jail cell
which was full of people of all ages including little children, unsanitary
conditions, food and water below his standards. Anyway, we're in KL now
staying in our engaged Buddhist friends' school in a suburb. It's
Independence day. We missed the parade. Had a great dim sum breakfast a
few blocks away though. - posted in
Saunters
8-30-14 - Two Reviews of
DC's first book from 1994, Thank You
and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
Tex Zen -
Amrita
Schlachter (RIP) in the Fort Worth Star Telegram
(DC home town paper)
Publisher's Weekly (An
occasional reader would get confused with the way the book jumped back and
forth in time)
Thank You
and OK! home page
A couple of days ago mentioned the ubiquitous bribe scene with motorbikes
and cops here in Bali. Lovely landlady Widya said that foreigners come
here and drive without licenses and disregard laws and sure it's wrong for
a motorcycle cop to take a bribe but it's a lot easier than having to go
pay a fine or meet a judge. She and her hubby David had an English school.
She said that it took them six months to get all the permits, that nine
different government agencies came to inspect, that immigration carefully
checked the teachers. There was too much bureaucracy but never a hint of a
bribe. And on the other other hand, a large new large local hotel was
built despite the ban (which I'm not at all clear on) on new hotels (which
are junking the place up). A newspaper report said that the police chief
went there to see what's up and said something like What can I do? They
had all the right permits. They also had a petition approving of the
construction signed by neighbors who said they never signed anything.
Adding up all the clues here. - DC - posted in
Saunters
8-29-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1978 Wind Bell volume
16, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 63 of 110 selections (approximately).
Just re-read
this story named
Loosing
Balance cut from Thank You and OK! which means it was written
over twenty years ago.
After reading the exciting story,
read comments in Saunters.
Thank You
and OK! home page
8-28-14 - A number of times I heard Shunryu Suzuki say that everyone is
doing their best. - posted in
DC
Brief Memories
Hear that doctor's can buy licenses here. Not corroborated. We wonder
about the new doctor who's set up shop nearby and stands out looking for
customers like shopkeepers and taxi drivers. He seems like a nice guy
though. - posted in
Saunters
8-27-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1976 Wind Bell volume
15, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 62 of 110 selections (approximately).
On the bicycle trip yesterday passed some
motorbiking tourists
who'd been stopped by police. That's a sort of tax on riding motorbikes
here. People I've talked to who ride those things around in the
countryside or anywhere say they carry 50,000 rupiah bills ($4.25) to give
to the cops who stop them so they can ride on. Doesn't matter what they
did, usually nothing.. Also rode by rice drying on
tarps on the roads. These were not heavily traveled roads but there were
some cars, motorbikes, trucks, and where there was rice drying the road
was reduced to one lane. Only a few dogs barked at us which was good. 22
years ago I think there would have been lots. - posted in
Saunters
Reading about the upcoming UN report on climate change, I worried about
the fate of beings on planet earth, considered how I'm not worried about
anything now or in the short term and not worried about anything in the
big picture in which space and time float or do whatever it does. So:
Short term OK.
Mid term worry
Long term OK
Realized have to do some work on attitude toward the mid term which
obviously is included in the long thus it's OK too. Just doesn't seem that
way. - posted in
dc misc 4
8-26-14 -
The Melanthium Band - Lew
Richmond
I have recently become part of a new music
group called THE MELANTHIUM BAND--trumpet, violin, string bass, piano.
Many people who know my books and teaching may not know that I was
trained as a classical pianist and composer, and now I have returned to
that. Our musical style is best described as contemporary classical, with
a jazz inflection. Most of the pieces are my original compositions. In
order to distinguish that activity from my Buddhist teaching and author
work Melanthium has begun its own Constant Contact mail list identity. I
have taken the liberty of adding your name to that list, so from now on
when you get an email from "The Melanthium Band" you will know it is my
group. You can read about the musicians, hear a YouTube clip of excerpts
from a recent concert, and read up on the pieces we play. Our
website is here:
Tom Silk wrote recently, "Lew Richmond has hit a home run in his
composition of a tone poem that serves as a soundtrack for a 20 minute
pilot film on the natural glories of Buddha and West Marin."
Lew Richmond cuke page
India's Kerala
State Announces Plans to Dramatically Increase Organized and Disorganized
Crime
-
posted
Engaged Buddhism/Current Events
Paul Maxwell review of
DC first book from 1994, Thank You
and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. The source for this review is not included in this scan but it
was in a magazine published in Japan. Will find that out later. - dc
1999 message from
Paul Maxwell to cuke.
Thank You
and OK! home page
Went with my sister Susan today on a bicycle trip today from Kintamani to
Ubud, almost all downhill past beautiful scenes, rice field terraces,
orange groves, small villages on small roads. Susan road in the follow-up
vehicle part of the way and was fascinated talking to the driver. He
stopped briefly at his home and rice field - in the family for generations
- and introduced her to his wife and baby. He told her Bali people pay
land and vehicle tax but no income tax. School is not free. The majority
of people still support themselves with agriculture. They eat rice three
times a day and grow it all - three crops a year. He's studying English to
get a better job. Here's
one company that does these tours.
Here's another with a good view of Kintamani.volcano, last eruption
1994. - posted in
Saunters
8-25-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1975 Wind Bell volume
14, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 61 of 110 selections (approximately). - dc
This is the Wind Bell with Steve Stucky on the cover. I miss Steve and
many people miss Steve and the SFZC misses Steve and cuke.com misses
Steve. He was a steady, wise person and a strong supporter of the cuke
archives and all this work and made a considerable monthly donation - was
a subscriber. - DC
Steve Stucky cuke page
Iyengar, Yoga Innovator, dies at 95.
Correction:
Mitsu Suzuki (Shunryu's widow) recent haiku collection, Temple Dusk,
Translated from the Japanese by Zenshin Eitan Bolokan, being released in
Hebrew. [Not her book White Tea Bowl as was incorrectly stated here three
days ago. Sorry. Gotta brush up on my Hebrew. - DC
Looking for a small low table to sit on the floor and work at, went into a
little furniture shop. The proprietress wore a head scarf. One can
address all Balinese the same but sometimes I like to use the universal
Muslim greeting. - more in
Saunters
8-24-14 -- Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 17
- 1986
Only these three issues missing:
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 18
- 1986
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 19
- 1986
Cloud Hidden Friends
Issue 32 - 1990 or 91 - missing (or Zen Freethinker)
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Visited a traditional pre-Hindu village here in Bali. Guide pointed out
tubes in a tower to be hit to call people or to announce. Might have been
large bamboo sections. Later we heard five hits. He said that means
someone just died in this village. - posted in
Saunters
8-23-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1974 Wind Bell volume
13, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 60 of 110 selections (approximately). - dc
Should I even mention that my sister Susan, Katrinka, and I went to
the White Sand Beach yesterday - Pantai Pasir Putih - a short bit after
Candidasa (remember c is pronounced ch). It's a pristine beach of a couple
hundred yards I estimate with little development and nice not very
challenging waves. Never too many people. Best to park up top and walk
down as the road is a bit rocky. Candidasa once had nice beaches but
locals took all the coral away from the reef and the beaches washed away. - posted in
Saunters
8-22-14
-
Mitsu Suzuki (Shunryu's widow) recent haiku collection, Temple Dusk,
Translated from the Japanese by Zenshin Eitan Bolokan, being released in
Hebrew.
Here's an announcement of the release event in Israel. [Can't get this
link to work on site though it works from the email received]
See more on Mitsu and the
English version of the book.
- posted with
prior communication
from the translator, including comments on the recent situation in Israel.
SF Chronicle review
by Alix Madrigal of DC first book from 1994, Thank You
and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
Thank You
and OK! home page
Indonesia backs president-elect amid protests -
Many of the demonstrators are paid rent-crowd groups or professional
protestors, bussed in to give the appearance of a public outcry
(This observation from
Australia News).Everyone
I've talked to in Bali who is happy populist Joko Widodo won and were
apprehensive about the bad loser, Prabowo Subianto, a former general with
a record of human rights abuses from the Suharto dictatorship. A good day
for Indonesia. - DC - posted in
Saunters
8-21-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1973 Wind Bell volume
13, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 59 of 110 selections (approximately). - dc
Seeking noble beings who want Verizon accounts. We've got three we
want to transfer to others. Verizon Crisis. Katrinka, son Clay, and I are
all three in a Verizon contract that we can't get out of and none of us
are using the accounts at all. Katrinka and I are in Asia for an
undetermined while and Clay uses a phone he buys minutes on and his iPhone
for music and wireless. We're at the end of how much we can suspend
service. They gave us 30 more days today for the three lines after which
time we can start paying about $200 a month or terminate the contract for
$780 or find people who want Verizon accounts whom we could then
transfer our accounts to (not the phone numbers). I've also thought of
writing a letter to a top exec expressing our desire to keep our Verizon
accounts and wishing they were more flexible so we could use them when
we're in the US and suspend when we're out, pointing out we're long time
customers. If you can help with this please contact DC.
Thanks. DC - posted in
Saunters
8-20-14 - There's
been some correspondence between Joel Weishaus and DC now posted on
his cuke page. In
response to being asked if he'd ever met or seen Suzuki Roshi he
responded:
It must have been around fifty years ago, so I hardly remember. A
room, and zufus, A hallway. Suzuki talking in rather broken English. It's
all misty.
posted on Brief Memories of Shunryu Suzuki
and added to the end of his cuke
page.
Natalie Goldberg's letter
to DC
on Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
Thank You
and OK! home page
Four day
Sanur Village Festival
in the field across the tiny street opening ceremony tonight. The
rehearsal music for the last couple of days has sometimes seemed to be
coming from inside our place. Here we go. - posted in
Saunters
8-19-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1973 Wind Bell volume
12, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 58 of 110 selections (approximately). - dc
Satvika Bhoga is a small food store on Jalan Hantua in Sanur with a
big ORGANIC sign out front. We've gone there now and then to get brown and
red rice, almond milk, and other stuff. The owner, Depak, is from Java.
His parents were Hindus who fled what is now Pakistan when it split off
from India. They went to another Muslim country, but one where they
weren't in danger. His brand of Hinduism is Advaita Vedanta. I said I
revered Ramana and Nisargadatta, two great 20th century Advaita gurus. He
taught me how to pronounce Advaita - with the V sounding like our W and
introduced me to the guru he followed, Shri Adi Shankaracharya, and to
Chinmaya.
Shri Adi Shankaracharya (788-820) -
In
Hinduism - about
Chinmaya in
Wikipedia - Chinmaya West
There are of course lots of other links for Shri Adi and Chinmaya
-
posted in
Saunters
Lizard People sending messages
via film.
8-18-14 - Got
some PDFs to enter into the digital archive here from my first book,
Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - DC - in
Group TY
of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
First three.
Blurb list
Borders reading leaflet or card
Promo blurb sheet
Thank You
and OK! home page
In response to earlier DC post,
Andrew Main on Canon's Corporate Name
Etymology - in Others
Contribute
My sister Susan is in the air, on her way to Hong Kong and
from there to Bali. After eleven days here she returns to Gulag America
and we go to Kuala Lumpur for a few days before returning here as bule
(foreigners) on tourist visas can only stay for sixty days. Gonna be
pretty busy till that return on the 2nd of September but will valiantly
continue posting as well as eye can. - DC - posted in
Saunters
8-17-14 -
The video of Vera
Haile Dalenberg's Memorial service on 7/31/14 in case you were
unable to join us. There is also a link to the short photo slideshow we
played at the service. Both are posted on her website ata
verahaile.com.
posted on the
Ananda
Dalengberg cuke page along with other posts about Vera, Ananda's widow
who died on July 9th.
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1973 Wind Bell volume 12, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 57 of 110 selections (approximately). - dc
Selemat Hari Kemerdekaan! Happy Indonesian Independence Day! - from
the Japanese who immediately turned over their swords - a thousand or more
staying to fight with the Indonesians against the Dutch which took another
four years.
Google recognizes it today. - posted in
Saunters
8-16-14 - Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 16
- 1985
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Joel Weishaus is a writer who makes a number of appearances in
Ananda's Newsletters: 1983 #3, 4, 5; 1984 #8, 10, 11; 1988 #27; 1990
#30-31. Have been corresponding with him about
Marian Derby
Wisberg whom he met at Tassajara in 1969.
When references and links start piling up for someone we make a cuke
page for them. Here's a cuke page
for Joel Weishaus. Putting some comments from him on Marian and a link
to his Beginner's Mind Project (previously featured) and to list of
books he's written.
The Bali wife of the Englishman has moved in next door. Hubby not here
yet. She's on the porch been going on in Balinese with a Bali man who I
think is their assistant here or maybe a driver they use sometimes.
Katrinka commented on how she likes to hear Balinese which sounds much
different from Indonesian which is the trade language used to speak to non
Balinese speakers, mainly other Indonesians. - posted in
Saunters
8-15-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1972 Wind Bell volume 11, issue 3.
Not a lecture, just a little something from Suzuki
in that Wind Bell.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 56 of 110 selections (approximately). - dc
Moved today from our
two bedroom to a one bedroom place next door - for two months till we move
back and get to keep it for longer. A blind Englishman and his Bali
I think wife are coming for her to get invitro fertilization. Also hear he
drinks a lot and gets loud. We'll see. Here there's only one burner, the
fridge is smaller, and there's less hanging space and so forth. David the
landlord, another Brit, put in a bum spray by the toilet god bless him.
Anyway, sort of busy putting stuff up. The art on the walls is modern not
all to our liking so we got some traditional ikat runners for a few bucks
each to cover some of them and will continue along those lines little by
little. Hope he's not offended.
IKAT
- posted in
Saunters
8-14-14 - Rowena Pattee Kryder
page created as her name came up recently among folks emailing about
Reed oral history, work being done by John Sheehy. If you
want to contact John about Reed just shoot an email - Contact DC.
And here's the cuke Reed
page- Rowena's not in there yet but will be.
A Warm and Present History: A Tribute to the Archivists Who Visited City
Center - from the SFZC's Sangha News. DC added
this comment: Good work. Keep it up. Sorry I wasn’t able to
attend the name that monk night, something a number of us have talked
about for years. Maybe we could set something up with a Skype conference
call to include some early students who could help.
- posted in
cuke Sangha news
Is it the tropics? I rubbed myself wrong below both knees and elbows
from doing yoga for sure when we were in Thailand and doing it on our yoga
towels but not with the mats which we'd left in Bali. I had four sours
then four scabs and now after about two months they've just about gone
away. I started using aloe vera less than a week ago and that seems to
have sped up the healing. Should have started doing that long ago. I don't
think I've ever had anythings that minor took so long to heal. - - posted in
Saunters
8-13-14 - Correction: Jeff Broadbent will be speaking at SFZC
Page Street Tuesday August 19, 7:3
0 pm. (See post below on 8-11-14 or on
Jeff Broadbent main page.)
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1970 Wind Bell volume 9, issue 3.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 55 of 110 selections (approximately). Just recounted and now I
think it's 110. - dc
Happy
Birthday Ahdel Chadwick or how
about Remembering Ahdel Chadwick on her birthday. I didn't post anything
on her death day, March 8th, because I didn't think of it, but a few days
later my sister Susan asked if I thought of her on that day. I'm not
really a special day person. I think of her and my father and so many
friends who've gone before now and then randomly and when I do I
frequently say, "Hi." I also say "Hi" to living people whom I think of who
are somewhere else - both of which might seem silly or stupid to some but
I am silly and stupid so I can't help it. I think I'll slip a post in for
last March 8th. I love that about web sites, how we can re-create the
past. For instance Just looked at last year's Happy Birthday message to
her and found both on her page and in What's New it dated as 8-12-13 not
because I'd forgotten the date but forgotten to change it after having
copied and pasted the previous day's date. That's been fixed now so it
never happened. Incidentally, Ahdel was a total compulsive freak for
details (like me - genetic?) and would completely appreciate such nitpicky
comments. - dc
8-12-14 - Jeff Broadbent, who is speaking tomorrow night [Correction:
Tuesday night the 19th] at the SFZC Page Street (see notice below in
yesterday's top post) writes that his translations of Sawaki Kodo's
Commentaries on the Song of Enlightenment are coming out piece by
piece in English, French and German in the new magazine
Zen Road by the Paris Soto
Zen group.
Jeff Broadbent main page
Bill Redican's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture master log from his valiant work over a decade ago - in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
The archive is more complete now and there have been many changes, but
this is an important archival document. It's a PDF of about 120 mgs.
Thanks to Jean Selkirk for creating this PDF. Bill's work concentrated on
lectures with audio.
Posting also in the cuke
Suzuki Lectures
section.
shunryusuzuki.com is where the
whole archive is located.
Favorite word
in Indonesian: jendela (accent on the 2nd syllable).
It means window.
Much the same as "cellar door" has been regarded for over a century in
English. Check it out.
There also happen to be some pretty windows here.
- posted in
Saunters
8-11-14 - Jeff Broadbent will be speaking at SFZC Page Street
Friday August 19, 7:30 pm.
"Way-Seeking Mind: Lay Wanderings in East/West Heart/Mind Scapes"
I highly recommend this talk. Jeff has a broad range of education,
experience, and practice most relevant for today's engaged Zen students
with an openness to revealing the demons as well as the angels that he has
encountered on his path.
Jeff first encountered Zen in 1956 at the age of twelve at a
Quaker retreat center in Pennsylvania when he met Sohaku
Ogata from Shokokuji in Kyoto. After entering college young,
dropping out, and involvement with civil rights and peace movements, in
1964 he started practicing with Hakuun Yasutani and Eido Shimano at New
York Zen Studies. As a conscientious objector he worked in a hospital.
After meeting Shunryu Suzuki and Richard Baker in New York in 1967 he went
West and became an early Tassajara student. He returned to college,
majoring in Religious Studies-Buddhism at UC
Berkeley, living at the Berkeley Zendo. Following
Suzuki’s advice, he studied in Japan for a
year starting in 1971 and became a lay
disciple of Suzuki's younger brother
monk, the revered Hakusan Kojun Noiri. After
further practice with renowned teachers in Thailand and India, Jeff
studied sociology with the eminent sociologist Robert Bellah at UCB and
then did graduate work at Harvard in the sociology of religion. He spent
three years in Japan working on his thesis about environmental protest. He
joined the sociology faculty at the University of Minnesota in
1986 and practiced with Dainin
Katagiri. For years Jeff has been leading a global research project
on climate change.
For much more detail on all this in Jeff's words, an interview, his Zen
bio, links to his projects and translations, see the ever expanding
Jeff Broadbent main page on
cuke.com
With gassho - - David Chadwick
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1970 Wind Bell volume 9, issue 3.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 54 of 113 selections (approximately).
My
favorite thing in Bali is
Japun,
the flowers that don't stop falling.
- posted in
Saunters
8-10-14 - Fifty Billion
Dollars - a very short story from DC
SFZC Page St. Rokuchiji (officers)
meeting minutes 1971
-
posted in the
Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
- with the
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
MK just suggested
Movie Joe even good with Nick Cage. I wrote: OK. I imagine we can own one
for - wait - let me do the math - 13 for 100,000 (IDR - Indonesian Rupiah)
and a 100,000 is now 8.50 = 65 cents. And we insist on "from DVD" not
filmed in a theater. They can tell by looking at them. I should ask them
what to look for to tell. I don't know if there's a way to legally buy
movies here. Does that mean I might get five years and a $250,000 fine in
all or that much for each infraction? - posted in
Saunters
8-09-14 - Nagasaki day - this was the better bomb, plutonium instead of
uranium, implosion rather than gun-type, Fat Man rather than Little Boy,
but not dropped as accurately. In Japan I attended some meetings with
hibakusha, nuclear bomb survivors, and their equivalent of PSR, Physicians
for Social Responsibility. They kept talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I asked, "What about now? Doesn't Japan support the US nuclear weapons
program and policy?" I'd hear, "We can't do anything about that." And now a
quarter century later, again the question, What about now?
Japan Has a Nuclear Bomb in the Basement and China Isn't Happy
posted in
Species Threat: Nuclear War
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1970 Wind Bell volume 9, issue 3.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 53 of 113 selections (approximately).
As mentioned on the 4th, Katrinka's been volunteering for
The Lighthouse Bali and is
putting together a fundraiser, so we got a printer/scanner/copier (Canon -
even cheaper than the US and ink cheaper too). Just translated a sticker
on the side with help from Tuttle's Compact Indonesian Dictionary. It
reads "Don't duplicate money" all around the edge and prominently in the
center, Organization Fighting to Eliminate Counterfeit Money with a QR
code. Darn. OK. Won't do. - posted in
Saunters
8-08-14 - Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 15
- 1985
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Poisonous Snakes in Bali - posted in
Saunters
Population, Sustainability,
and Earth's Carrying Capacity:
A framework for estimating population sizes and lifestyles
that could be sustained without undermining future generations
by Gretchen C. Daily and Paul R. Ehrlich (1992)
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
8-07-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1970 Wind Bell volume 9, issue
2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 52 of 113 selections (approximately).
Mary
Quagliata memories of Shunryu Suzuki went up a while back. Her art
gallery and video page linked to from there have great material. Don't
know how much of it is new - it all looks new to me. Enjoy. - dc
The Meaning of Sustainability - another dose of what seems to me to be
sane scientific thinking from Do the Math -
Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options—by Tom
Murphy -
DC -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
One thing that differs from country to country is how bills and change
flow. - more in Saunters
8-06-14 - On this anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima,
Noam Chomsky on national security, nuclear strategy, and threats to
actual security and survival.
This is truly nuts - that there continues to be a serious species
threat from nuclear weapons that people think has gone away. Not at all
so. All the leaders and followers who buy into the nuclear weapons game
are signing on to insanity. Individuals who acted this way on a local or
personal scale would be candidates for permanent lockup. - DC
posted in
Species Threat: Nuclear War
Alan Marlowe's Great Moment
- a Tassajara Story
It's windy. I love it. July and August are the windy months in Bali. - posted in
Saunters
8-05-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1970 Wind Bell volume 9, issue
1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 51 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Was forgetting to change the Wind Bell year on the posts.
The last few have said 1967 but we're already at 1970. The last was 1969
and the two before that 1968. Have to remember to check the year, volume
and issue number, and selection number. Keep going back and making
corrections. Probably spend about fifteen minutes a day just making
corrections on this site.- dc
I was walking a ways one night in Bangkok - past a lot of sidewalk action
- all these little food and trinket stands and items for sale spread on
cloth, people sleeping, gambling, chatting, through areas without all
that, crossing busy streets, back to our hotel by the river. - more in
Saunters
About thirteen years ago was driving a friend named Judy around Marin
and Sonoma. After Green Gulch Farm we dropped by Peter and Wendy's at Muir
Beach. My friend said that I'd been introducing her to the Buddhist scene
in the North Bay and asked Peter if he had any advice. "Yeah," he said.
"Beware of teachers." - dc - posted in ZC
Stories
Today's vocabulary:
Umbra, penumbra and antumbra
8-04-14 - Grahame Petchey Japan
diary 1963 or part of it - in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Grahame Petchey cuke page
Katrinka's been volunteering for
The Lighthouse Bali, a
drug and alcohol rehab center, doing a fundraising party for later this
month. I'm giving a talk there today at 1pm on Zen. May they wash their
ears in the sound of birds in trees and motor scooters on the streets. -
dc - posted in
Saunters
Can Economic Growth Last? - from Do the Math -
Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options—by Tom
Murphy -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
8-03-14 -
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1969 Wind Bell volume 8, issue 3.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 50 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
An excellent editorial on the War on Drugs and the effect of marijuana
on young brains by Ariana Huffington. (Sorry Clay - too
late for you) - dc -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Our landlady, Widya, was out yesterday to attend the 36th day ceremony for
her newborn niece her husband, Brit David told me. He emphasized how
deeply Bali culture gets ingrained in people here from the very start with
no letup. I remember attending the tooth filing of our nanny in 1992. Had
just picked up Kelly from the airport so he joined me as guests. Tooth
filing now is sort of pretend, not sharpening the front teeth down to
points like in the old days.
Here's one article on tooth filing.
Here's another. One
article mentions that it may be symbolic but we think it's mainly symbolic
now - that's what locals have told us. The one I saw 22 years ago only
lightly scraped the girl's teeth. It's an important tradition but we don't
see people with sharp teeth though I'm sure there are some, especially
older ones. - posted in
Saunters
8-02-14 - Marian Derby letter to DC
explaining what she thinks the source of the box of Shunryu Suzuki Los
Altos Lecture transcripts with editing marks that ended up in the SFZC
library closet - all of which now are in lecture archive on
shunryusuzuki.com. - - in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Posting on the
cuke lecture and quote page and
The earliest apparently
verbatim lectures from Los Altos.
Tons of posts and info sort of confusing needs to be reorganized
especially in light of what is known now. Also need to do corrections of
info in Crooked Cucumber and even the more recent
Afterward to the 40th edition of
ZMBM.
ZMBM page which has a
useful chart and links to source lectures
Marian Derby page
Freedom Songs - my Journey through 1964
part XI - News York
& Orleans
My favorite oil to use here is the indigenous coconut oil - that's what
they call it - minyak (oil) kelapa (coconut) asli (original or
indigenous). - more in
Saunters
8-01-14 -
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1968 Wind Bell volume 7, issue 2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 49 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Paul Discoe on the cardboard zendo at Burning Man speaking in 2009
at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA. Wonder if it's still going up.
Looked this up after seeing
examples of Burning Man sculpture posted t on Huff Post today. Huff
Post also in the past posted that video excerpt on cardboard zendo.
Paul Discoe cuke page
Katrinka McKay
and DC on roof of Yasuyoshi Morimoto's building in Kyoto.
See Saunters posts below for 6-19, 6-23, and 7-06-14 for posts on
Morimoto.
July
7-31-14 - Joshu Sasaki dies at 107 on July 27th -
Huff Post - thanks Howie Klein
LA Times another
LA Times and
Shambala Sun and
Sweeping Zen
DC on meeting Joshu
Sasaki
Joshu Sasaki cuke page
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 14
- 1985
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Looking at kites in the sky. So many, some so big. Yesterday sitting in
Japanese restaurant by sidewalk four guys walked by holding one. Lying in
the pool looking at the sky usually see five or six, some so high Katrinka
wondered if a plane might hit them and commented that kites probably don't
have flight plans. Check out
Bali Kite
Festival and
Google images for Bali kites. - posted in
Saunters
7-30-14 - Mississippi Eyes Book
Event at Book Passage in Marin County, CA this Saturday August 2, 2014
- posted in Ads & Announcements
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1968 Wind Bell volume 7, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 48 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Wondered what happened to Werner Erhard. -
more in dc misc 4
Ate too many candlenuts without first reading that
it has to be thoroughly cooked to remove the poison and that even then
it's a laxative. - more in
Saunters
7-29-14 - Gail Mueller has been diagnosed
with ovarian/peritoneal cancer. Her son, Quinn, posted appeals for tonglen
and financial help on GoFundMe.
You can also find post's on Quinn's FB page (Quinn Mueller). - thanks Beverly Morris Armstrong - posted in
Ads and Info
By Laws of the San
Francisco Zen Center 1968
posted in the
Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
- with the
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
It rained this morning. It's not rainy season so it was especially
welcome. As soon as it started I moved out to the porch to be near the
sound, the smell, the sight of it. It cleans me like the air though I'm
not in it. I check my urge to wish it continued all day out of sympathy
for the many post Ramadan tourists. posted in -
Saunters
7-28-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1967 Wind Bell volume 6, issue
2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 47 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Richard Lindzen of MIT says global warming is
alarmist nonsense. Debate with others
here on Aljazeera. ------Desmog
Blog------Wikipedia -
posted in
Climate Change
We have small geckos, an inch and two and three but last
night amazed to see a gecko about eight inches on the wall when we got
back. - more in
Saunters
Emptiness doesn't suggest nothing matters but shows that
everything matters infinitely in a new way. - Kabumpkan
7-27-14 - A page of
selected Shunryu Suzuki quotes sent by Bill Redican fifteen years ago
or so. - in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
and posted on the
cuke lecture and quote page.
Ketut and I took a walk along a road a ways from here today while Katrinka
was in a meeting nearby. - more in
Saunters
7-26-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1967 Wind Bell volume 6, issue
2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 46 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Tomorrow's the last day of Ramadan. Bali is about 12% Muslim. We're near a
mosque. There were a lot of Muslims at the beach down near the mosque
about an hour after sunrise - walking into the water to get on boats.
That's how one gets on boats around here - like to get to the nearest
island, Lombongon. From what we've read it gets real busy after Ramadan
and it's better not to get too adventurous. Indonesia expects 500 road
deaths. We weren't planning to go far anyway. Katrinka got the lowdown on
different greeting gestures for Muslims from different parts of Indonesia.
In a lot of India they put their hand on their heart she learned. I've
done that with Hindus too there. I like that. She was told in Bali they
put their palms together. I wondered about that. In India I was careful
not to bow like that to people who might be Muslims. But this is gassho
paradise. Japan isn't. Thailand a little. At ZC it can be sort of forced.
Here it's natural, ubiquitous. - posted in
Saunters
7-25-14 - On the Hebrew
translation of Mitsu Suzuki's Temple Dusk and comments
on the situation in Israel. Emails with Zenshin Eitan Bolokan.
Earth Dodged Massive Solar Storm In 2012 That Could Have Wiped Out Power
Grid
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Sending this to my sister Susan who's coming next month and Katrinka's
son Seth who's coming in September.
The main words
that I've found are helpful in Indonesia are: - more in
Saunters
7-24-14 - Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 13
- 1985
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
This sentence
from the article in the NY Times linked to yesterday caught my attention:
Indonesia,
which, despite being a member of the G-20 group of major economies, has
more than 100 million people living on $2 a day or less.
That's so
misleading. - more in
Saunters
Another NY
Times item: They made the correction sent in for the Albert Stunkard
obituary linked to here on 7-22-14:
Correction: July 23, 2014
An obituary on Monday about Dr. Albert J. Stunkard, a pioneer of
eating-disorder research, misidentified the man who inspired his interest
in Buddhism. He was the author D. T. Suzuki, not the Buddhist monk Shunryu
Suzuki.
Mickey Stunkard's
cuke page and interview
Correction
email sent to New York Times
This may be
the high point of my career. - DC
Thinking
about the Four Difficulties or something like that read in Tibetan Book of
Living and Dying. They are the answer as to why it's so hard to wake up to
reality if that's all there is and there's no obstacle and so forth. As I
recall it's so difficult because of what we can't imagine:
It's so
close.
It's so
subtle.
It's so
profound.
It's so
wonderful.
posted in
dc misc 4
7-23-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1967 Wind Bell volume 6, issue
2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 45 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
A Child of the Slum Rises as President of Indonesia - NY Times
Indonesia's final election results confirmed Joko Widodo is president.
That's an enormous event here - first new president in ten years. It's
like Obama being elected in the US and probably about as helpful as he'll
have to deal with a coalition and a country like everywhere controlled by
the rich and entrenched power. But he's the first not from the ruling
elite or military. The word today is Selamat presiden terpilih baru!
Congratulations on the new president elect. People I talk to are happy.
He looks a little like Obama too. - posted in
Saunters and
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
The road to hell is paved with trite phrases. - Kabumpkan
7-22-14 -
Dr. Albert
J. Stunkard, Destigmatizer of Fat, Dies at 92 - NY Times
- thanks Carol Schmitt
Mickey as we called him. One of the senior Zen practitioners and teachers
in the West. He sat with Shunryu Suzuki at Tassajara and in San Francisco.
He was DT Suzuki's doctor in Japan after the war and studied with Muira
and Yasutani and knew Soen and Edo.
There's a mistake in the article which states toward the end in a brief
bio:
serving as an Army physician
in occupied Japan, where he became a student of Shunryu Suzuki, a Buddhist
monk who later helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States. The
experience made Dr. Stunkard a lifelong Buddhist practitioner, he said.
Stunkard
was introduced to Zen by DT Suzuki in Japan after the war. He practiced
with Shunryu Suzuki at the San Francisco Zen Center and at the SFZC's
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center for brief periods in the late sixties and
early seventies.- DC
Mickey Stunkard's
cuke page and interview
Correction
email sent to New York Times
So many kites in the sky here in Sanur. Kids playing soccer on the
beach. Sounds of older kids in the courtyard from the school next door.
Went over there on a ceremonial day. All the boys in white with white
turbans, all the girls in colorful saris. I walked around like an
invisible person. They also paid no attention to the awful traditional
singing coming from the cheap loudspeakers. I thought that might be the
principal. - posted in
Saunters
Clarifying the Hobby Lobby decision of the Supremes - New Yorker
- thanks Gregory Johnson
7-21-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1967 Wind Bell volume 6, issue
2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 44 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Ukranian family next door for a week. They were gone for a few days to the
nearby island of Lebongon when the Malaysian flight over the Ukraine
crashed. First thing I thought of was them. Woman lost her iPhone. She'd
put it down on a table in a restaurant. I lost a pocket dictionary from
putting it down on a table last February and I was saying back then never
put anything down that you want to keep. Many other examples have been
sited and will be forthcoming. Visiting friend forgot his debit card -
left it in the machine. I'd told him not to take his eye off it and have
his hand ready to grab it every time so he couldn't forget. Katrinka did
that first day she was here. Took her two days to get it back from a bank
across the city. - posted in
Saunters
7-20-14 -
Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables - When I ran the SFZC's Green Gulch
Green Grocer with Jim Bockhorst, the buyer. we often purchased fruit and
vegetables that had been condemned by the health department. The main
seller was papayas. We sold tons of papayas illegally by the box quite
cheap. Their crime? They didn't look nice. The health department nixed
food for cosmetic reasons. Watch this video about a French food chain's
move to sell food that would normally be thrown away. - DC. - thanks Phil Henderson - posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Phillip
played dumb (Note on Phillip Wilson [1st name misspelled like in
Crooked Cucumber] from Peter Snyder observation. DC adds - and he'd
frequently talk in almost baby talk. With random other notes in
darker ink. - in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Phillip Wilson cuke page
At 11am yesterday we joined our landlords, David from England and
his wife Widya from Kuta near here for a drive to a fish market near
Jimbaran about thirty minutes away. - more in
Saunters
No need to make any profound observations. - Kabumpkan
7-19-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1967 Wind Bell volume 6, issue
1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 43 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
The Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka discusses Boko Haram,
organised religion, and the current state of his country. - from Aljazeera
dot com. Good news site and we like the TV news and documentaries too
though don't spend too much time on it. Look at some of the posts after
the article. Some strong stuff. - posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
It's interesting technology with some practical applications but whenever
I see one I think I'd rather be walking. There are Segway tours here. - more in
Saunters
7-18-14 -
Note from
Charlotte Selver to DC that her husband Charles Brooks has died -
in Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Charlotte Selver cuke page
Loring Palmer on the Fourth
Turning (of the Wheel of the Dharma)
Loring's cuke page
Someone wrote: Tell me - where in Bali do you stay? What's the name of the
town? Do you travel around at all? Do you ever go to the inland hilly
area? - Answer in Saunters
7-17-14 -
Vera Haile Dalenberg's memorial and light reception will be held at
St. Mary's Cathedral (in St. Francis Hall) at 1111 Gough St, in San
Francisco, from 5:30-7:30 pm, on Thursday, July 31st.
Flowers
may be delivered to St. Mary's Cathedral, as long as the date and time of
Vera's memorial are specified.
Posted on
Ananda Claude Dalenberg page
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1967 Wind Bell volume 6, issue 1.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 42 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Japan 'vagina
artist' woman arrest - from BBC - arrested for sending images of an
"obscene object" in a country that worships the penis.
Huff Post article with phallic toys and suckers. Check out the
Kanamuri
penis festival.
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
7-16-14 -
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 12
- 1985
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Photo of Vera Dalenberg with her twin daughters, Dianne and Laura.
Last email from Vera Hale Dalenberg.
Freedom Songs - my journey through 1964, part X - SDS
- with the Students for a Democratic Society
Really don't think it's my role to make comments about film and video
media, but we do at times relax at the end of a grueling day with a movie
or TV series or documentary - as in I drink tea at times in the morning. I
notice little movieisms as do many people. There have been books and many
articles written about them - like not closing doors and hanging up on
phone calls without saying goodbye. I've been aware of a particular phrase
recently and since then I've noticed it in every movie and TV series,
sometimes being used up to four times. That phrase is, "Are you OK?" or
sometimes "Are you alright?" Yesterday I heard "Everything OK?" which is
the same thing. I don't see it listed in a couple of lists of most used
phrases in film. Nor did I see the ubiquitous "Yes!" in triumph or the
irritated, "What?" I know the last two single word phrases are somewhat
recent, but don't have an idea how far back Are you OK? goes. - posted in
dc misc 4
7-15-14
- RIP Vera Hale who died on July 9th, widow of
Ananda
Claude Dalenberg,
dear friend and woman of the good fight for the underprivileged, . Read
her obituary and more at Vera Hale dot com.
Condolences to her twin daughters Diane Dalenberg Schoonover and Laura
Dalenberg whom she was so close to. She was also a very loyal and loving
wife and partner of Ananda. - DC
Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1966 Wind Bell volume 5, issue 4.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 41 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
How Guy McPherson got it wrong - posted in
Climate Change
I just gave Ketut from Lovina 400,000 rupiah. That ended the confusion. - more in
Saunters
7-14-14 -
Magnanimity - a lecture by
Dainin Katagiri from the SFZC Wind Bell Vol. 18 #2, 1984 - in
Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Up in the dark. As light emerged the amplified male voice came from the
school next door and continued for a good deal of the morning. - more in
Saunters
Assisted dying: Desmond Tutu
signals support - BBC- posted in
Death and Dying
7-13-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1966 Wind Bell volume 5, issue
3.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 40 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Friends Barbara and Scotty around for a couple of weeks. We passed some
stray dogs on our way out from the beach through a hotel's property. - more in
Saunters
7-12-14 - Freedom Songs, part IX -
Ohio -
Good gosh. It's been almost two years since the last piece in this series
was written. Plan to finish it up now. Just two short chapters to go. This
one takes place at the training camp for civil rights workers getting
ready to go to Mississippi. - DC
Some DC scribbled Japan notes
1994 doing research for Crooked Cucumber - in
Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
A little under the weather. Got up late. Drank hot water with lime. Sat
for a minute then lay down. Watched the 5th Estate. As I do with
historical movies checked on it afterwards. Regardless of Assange's
weaknesses, he's exposing great crimes and think it's interesting so many
focus on his shortcomings. The movie has many too but he's wrong when he
calls it an anti-Wikileaks movie. We get daily cleaning with our place
leased for a few months. Ketut today. I offered him some DVDs we'd seen.
He only wanted the action ones. Zombie movies his favorite. Gave him some
granola we'd made to pass on to the landlord, David, who likes Muesli. I
suggested he get it well roasted before eating and gave this as an
example. Studied some Indonesian. Back to sleep. - posted in
Saunters
7-11-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1966 Wind Bell volume 5, issue
3.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 39 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
John
Tarrant sent a note:
Anne Aitken had a great thing about a bus stop when she was very old.
Someone asked her what she thought about death.
She said, "Oh I'm waiting at a bus stop. Buses come along and people get
on and they head off. Then my bus will come and I'll get on and off
we'll go."
DC comment: I see us sometimes as in a cosmic game akin to musical chairs.
One day there will be no chair for me.
- posted in
Death and Dying
Sanur. There's a school over the wall. High
school maybe. Maybe private. Looks sort of nice. Hear band practice that
sounds like it could be in Kansas. The other day youth singing what
sounded like a school song that also could be anywhere - clapping and
yeas! after just like it was Texas. Sometimes especially in the morning an
amplified man's voice. Further away more enticing sounds from the mosque -
calling and music. - posted in
Saunters
7-10-14 -
For Women Who Saw Combat, a Place to Find Inner Peace - NY
Times article on Tassajara retreat
Comment by DC in dc misc 4
- also linked to from
Engaged Buddhism
Today starting Group I
with Note from Huston Smith
to DC - undated (around 2008)
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Everywhere ants are part of our life, more so here in Sanur. - more in
Saunters
Lafcadio Hearn
on Ants
Lafcadio Hearn
Wikipedia page (An early and prominent Nipponophiles)
7-09-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1966 Wind Bell volume 5, issue
2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 38 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Can't control, can't figure out, can't make sense of. What
a relief. - Kabumpkan
A while back posted
Getting Celsius and Fahrenheit straight.
Since then have worked out a new system to remember - and corrected
embarrassing errors. - more in Saunters
7-08-14 -
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 11
- 1984
from
Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Early morning it's raining. Sitting on the porch. I love
rain. Makes me feel cozy. Encourages work and reading. It hasn't been
particularly hot in Sanur so far. Southern winds from Australia I hear.
Pleasant walks. Wasn't too hot the three weeks in Thailand also. Lot of
overcast and some rain. It's rainy season there but not here. Someone
forgot to tell the rain to wait till October. - posted in
Saunters
Just learned about Death
Cafe.
Article on local Death Cafe from Marin County (CA) Pacific Sun.
- thanks Katrinka
- posted in
Death and Dying
7-07-14 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture from the 1966 Wind Bell volume 5, issue
2.
In the new presentation
of
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
1961-2012 now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with
cover images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where
audio, verbatim transcripts, other edited version can be found. Today
featuring # 37 of 113 selections (approximately). -
thanks Peter Ford
Magnetic
Poles position, strength, and flip - BBC - Found this so interesting
and so phenomenally fundamental. - dc - posted in
Misc
Bali Advertiser has good
local news and this gutsy and informative piece reprinted from 1999 Moxie
Mag.
Forty Ways Men Fail. I'd ad what to me is the indispensable rule:
ladies first. - thanks Katrinka (who pointed to the one on
shaving)
Made a few changes to the post from yesterday on the book Shingon.
- posted in
Saunters
7-06-14 - A couple of weeks ago was mentioning the book
Shingon, Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
by Taiko Yamasaki, David Kidd and Yasuyoshi Morimoto edited
the translation into English by Richard and Cynthia Peterson. It's
published by Shambhala only available in hard back. An ebook is
forthcoming. There's a pirated PDF on the net. Read
Saunters June 19th to 23rd for
comments on the book and our visits with Morimoto. Fortuitous. - dc
Crooked Cucumber
Insert - the photo insert in the book - linking to this also
from
Crooked Cucumber
- the book
JPEGs
of the same (better)
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans ----
Crooked Cucumber group
Phlosophy is Not a Luxury PODCAST EPISODE 3:
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE - thanks Loring - dc comment
in dc-misc-4
7-05-14 -
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Today featuring # 36 of 113 selections
(approximately)
- from the 1966 Wind Bell volume 5, issue 1.
#2 Think twice, don't be in a hurry with money (as in yesterday's
post). - more in Saunters
7-04-14 -
Happy Birthday USA - read the NYTimes obit on former Marine and hippy
commune founder Steve Gaskin linked to yesterday to get his comments on
the USA constitution and so forth.
Two old time Zennies
remember Steve
Gaskin - looking for more
Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman in SFZC Sangha News- July 2, 2014
DC favorite
parts and a few comments on that interview posted at the bottom of
cuke interview with Mel.
Taxi from Denpasar airport is set price depending on destination -
125,000 for the ride to anywhere in Sanur- $10 for a half hour ride.. They
assign a driver. I asked for small money, wanted to break a 100,000
rupiah bill so I could pay that. The driver said no need, that he had
change. Upon arrival I gave him a 100,000 and a 50,000 which I had
leftover from when we left. "I don't have any change," he said going
through his pockets innocently.
- posted in
Saunters
7-03-14 -
Stephen Gaskin, founder of The Farm, dies at 79
Gaskin on cuke
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans -
Richard Baker Folder
created today - a few items here. Also creating the
Richard Baker cuke
page. Not much there. Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi is a dear friend
and teacher of mine who has been completely supportive of cuke archives,
work, projects, and me and mine all the way back to the first day I walked
into Sokoji. - DC
Back in Bali after 23 days in Thailand. Good place, good people. Both of
them. Just
wrote this to Katrinka's son, Seth, who's coming to visit and wanted to
learn a bit of Indonesian. - more in
Saunters
7-02-13 - Ten hours from New Siam Bangkok (recommended) to Widya Homestay
in Sanur, Bali. No connection till tomorrow.
7-01-14 - Broke up yesterday's post into four parts
In the new presentation of
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now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with cover
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Today featuring # 33, 34, and 35 of 113 selections
(approximately - am loosing count with changes we're making)
- from the 1965 Wind Bell volume 4, issue 7.
The first part with Dainin Katagiri giving sesshin instruction was cut to
be in included later with Wind Bell excerpts featuring him.
Separated out notes on Shunryu Suzuki giving kinhin
instruction
Then two lectures
It is a great joy to practice sesshin with you in this way
We have finished sesshin with unusual results
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
Thanks Peter Ford for putting all this together.
Even more notes from our
time in Japan - posted on Saunters
Today makes ten years without one puff or anything of the dread demon
nicotine. - DC
June
6-30-14 - More from Rick Levine
on Lloyd Reynolds
As was posted yesterday, Check out the new
presentation of
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images added - also links to the page on shunryusuzuki.com where audio,
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Today featuring # 33 of 111 (was 109 but just added two
more):
It is a great joy to practice sesshin with you in this way
- from the 1965 Wind Bell volume 4, issue 7.
This one begins with Dainin Katagiri giving sesshin instruction then
Shunryu Suzuki giving kinhin instruction then the lecture 65-10-16a. It
also includes another lecture, 65-10-16b. Plan to separate these out.
This all changed. See next day's post.
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
Thanks Peter Ford for putting all this together.
Just got this great photo of
Michael Katz and John Tarrant who'd just led a koan seminar or
whatever they called it
at the Nevada City True
Nature Zendo run by Michael's wife Jenny Wunderly.
The World Catches Us Every Time
An article by John Tarrant
Published in the April/May 2014 edition of Shambhala Sun
Abiding nowhere, the heart comes forth
- Zen koan
- in Others contribute
Yet another bunch of notes
from our time in Japan posted on Saunters
6-29-14 -
Check out the new presentation of
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now combined with links to the complete Wind Bells with cover
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Today featuring # 32 of 111 (was 109 but just added two
more):
Confucius said the most visible is something invisible
- from the 1965 Wind Bell volume 4, issue 6.
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
Thanks Peter Ford for putting all this together.
Another bunch of notes
from our time in Japan posted on Saunters
6-28-14 -
Jeff Broadbent is currently leading a
global research project on
climate change
Jeffrey Broadbent
University of Minnesota personal page
A recent email is posted at the top of
Jeff's cuke interview
page
On that page are links from seven years ago to climate work Jeff was doing.
His email signature includes: “The world is much more interesting than any
one discipline.” – Edward Tufte
also posted on
Climate Change
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featuring # 31 of 109:
Blue Cliff Records-86, Ummon's Store-Room And Temple Gate
(commentary) - from the 1965 Wind Bell volume 4, issue 6
(No Shunryu Suzuki lecture notes in issue 5.)
From Cuke Archives
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Thought I'd share
part of a
note from Daya Goldschlag (First past wife experience). Posted at the
bottom of her cuke interview. - DC
A bunch of notes from our
time in Japan. posted on Saunters
6-27-14 - Brian
Victoria page on The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Check out the
top piece - Zen Masters on the Battlefield (Part
I).
Brian Victoria cuke page
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Blue Cliff Records-86, Ummon's Store-Room And Temple Gate
- from the 1965 Wind Bell volume 4, issue 4 (No Shunryu
Suzuki lecture notes in issue 3.)
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2013 Scans
Dennis McNally has a new book coming in October. Check it and his
website out.
Ever since he finished the Grateful Dead book he's been working on a new
one that traces the deepest roots of the sixties and of rock ‘n’ roll and
studies what white people have learned from black music from the minstrel
era to Bob Dylan: On Highway 61/Music, Race, and the Evolution of
Cultural Freedom. It’ll be out October 14th from Counterpoint
Press. Go to
www.dennismcnally.com. It’s
got a sample of the new book, some portions of the Dead and Kerouac books,
and other information about Dennis and his work, including a blog. And the
book can be ordered from there.
Got the time and place of Rusty Schweickart's talk featured on the 24th.
Michael Katz who recorded it writes: This was the first time Rusty came to
Lindisfarne (at Fishcove, Long Island, where you visited
[76?]), and the first of its summer conferences in August 1974. The
correct title of the book that included that talk is Earth's Answer:
Explorations of Planetary Culture at the Lindisfarne Conferences. -
Posted on the
Rusty Schweickart page
6-26-14 -
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# 29 of 109:
Blue Cliff Records-84, Yuima's Law Gate To The One And Only
- from the 1965 Wind Bell volume 4, issue 2
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Must add this to the
Niels Holm memorial
page.
As I was reading your travelogue I got distracted with the interview with
Niels .... just reading it ... I could visualize him sitting there
telling the story ... he really was a spiritual warrior .... though he
had an over inflated view of his own attractiveness .... you couldn't
trust him 3 seconds with a woman ... wouldn't matter if it was your wife
even .... however like Dogen says ... the boundary of enlightenment is
not well defined. One of Niels' best stories ... I don't know if you have
it or not ... was when he set out sailing in Canada or Alaska in his life
boat ... and was getting swept into this giant rock and there was nothing
he could do to escape ... when finally it seemed inevitable that the next
wave would crash his boat into the rock a huge wave came out of nowhere
and swept him and the boat completely over the rock unscathed. Remember
when he told that story to us ... when we were all drinking that tequila
that Rosie used to bring back from Mexico .... the way he described the
ending ... such enthusiastic mania ... had to love the guy. - Andrew
Atkeison
Told Stewart
Wachs about Tom Kirchner's pancreatic cancer, his facing death, then
finding out after the operation that there was no sign of cancer. He said
it baffled everyone. Stuart came up with a new explanation. He had a
diabetes misdiagnosis from mixed up records. Luckily his wife is a nurse.
She did a home test and found no indication of it. Turned out they'd
screwed up the records. He said they make mistakes on non Japanese records
now and then because our names don't fit into their sound and writing
system all that well. He said the treatment could have killed him and that
the hospital nurse in charge did dogeza, bowing before him in contrite
apology. - For more on Stewart and Tom do a page search on
the Saunters page (Cntrl F, Mac-Cmnd F).
- posted in
Saunters
6-25-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 10- 1984
Ananda
Claude Dalenberg cuke page
Yesterday in note below Shunryu Suzuki Wind Bell lecture post, had a
note where mentioned am always finding mistakes in posts here and fixing
them. One mistake didn't mention is misspellings. - more in
dc misc 4
One problem with Asia I've found is that somebody stole most of the
towel racks. There could also be more hooks and shelves and so forth.
- posted in
Saunters
6-24-14 -
Listen
to the original recording of No Frames, No Boundaries, Apollo
nine astronaut Russell Schweickart's talk at the Lindesfarne Association.
conference. Michael Katz was the recording engineer. (32:26 mp3-24bit).
The talk was given in about 1975. Will get correct date soon - and place.
Read
No Frames No
Boundaries on the site of the Context Inst.with slight adaptation
by Vivienne Hull, the above is from "No Frames, No Boundaries," by Russell
Schweickart, published in Earth's Answer Connecting with the whole
planet - from space, Michael Katz, William P. Marsh and Gail
Gordon Thompson, Editors, Lindisfarne Books/Harper and Row, 1977.
And read more on the
Rusty Schweickart page
- including why such a page exists on cuke.
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Blue Cliff Records-82, Dairyu's Immutable Law-Body
- from the 1965 Wind Bell volume 4, issue 1
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
Opps - Every issue of the Wind Bell in volume 3 was
1964, not 1963 as was indicated till it was just fixed. I find mistakes on
cuke everyday. After uploading I try to check all the links and quickly
read what was written and no matter how simple what was posted I always
find something to fix, sometimes many fixes - wrong dates among the most
common. But since I hold to the "Everything we are taught is false"
doctrine. More on that later.
Two things noticed that are similar in Japan, Thailand, and
Bali: wrapping trees in cloth, sometimes with rope and hanging stuff as
well, as a sign that they are holy or out of respect to spirits in them -
and in temples and theater the sequence of sounds of bells, clackers,
wooden mallets on wooden boards - spaced strikes after some hits becoming
closer and closer in a roll down. - posted in
Saunters
6-23-14 -
Conclusion of visit with Yasuyoshi Morimoto and reflections on Shingon.
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Blue Cliff Records-75
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6-22-14 -
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# 26 of 109:
Blue Cliff Records-73, Baso's Four Propositions
- from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 7
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
Continued from
yesterday's Saunters post. Continued from yesterday's Saunters
post. Toward the end of our first visit with Morimoto, he gave us a
copy of
Shingon, Japanese Esoteric Buddhism by Taiko Yamasaki, saying
that it revealed more about Shingon than any book before it. He and David
Kidd (see prior three Saunters posts) edited the translation into English
by Richard and Cynthia Peterson. It's published by Shambhala. Morimoto
says that their translation is excellent. I was surprised to find the book
easy and fun to read and informative. - more in
Saunters
6-21-14 -
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# 25 of 109:
The Traditional Way, Summary of Shunryu Suzuki's Sesshin Lectures
- from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 6
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
We call Yasuyoshi Morimoto just Morimoto which is
rude without the San but he's so fluid with Westerness that it seems
appropriate. I mean if we're talking about him as in, "Let's go say hi to
Morimoto." If I were calling to him I'd say, "Morimoto-san!" or the more
polite "Morimoto-sama!" but in his case, the later would be more like an
affectionate use, not necessary. He combines dignity with informality,
authority with a touch of humor. I told Katrinka he didn't seem entirely
Japanese. She said yes, like someone whom we'd have met in San Francisco's
North Beach in the sixties. - more in
Saunters
6-20-14 -
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- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 9
- 1984
Ananda
Claude Dalenberg cuke page
David Kidd (see yesterday's post) wrote
Peking Story. It's said he regretted that his friend David Bowie didn't
fulfill their mutual dream for Bowie to play the role of Kidd. Kidd was
one of the great characters of the Kyoto scene up to his death. His vast
collection of Asian art is still intact in the three story home of his
former student and partner, Yasuyoshi Morimoto, a surviving great
character of Kyoto. Thanks to Ian Shortreed,
and the kindly openness of Morimoto, Katrinka and I spent two most
engrossing evenings there. Here's
a snippet in which Morimoto plays a role and it gives a hint of who he
is. - to be continued - posted in
Saunters
6-19-14 -
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# 24 of 109:
Blue Cliff Records-51
is from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 5
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World
population clock. - to be continued -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
David Kidd, Lover of Asian Art, Dies at 69 - NY Times, Nov. 27, 1996.
- to be continued. - posted in
Saunters
6-18-14 -
On Ejo Takata by Andreas
Ekei Zettl - a monk at Sogenji, Okayama, Japan
[A Japanese Zen Monk
Offered 30 Years of his Life to Help in Developing a Foreign Country
(Mexico)]
On the train,
bus, car rides in the country or on the outskirts of cities, even inside
cities here and there passing endless rice, barley fields, and vegetable
gardens, greenhouses, even in small yards, tiny plots in front of houses.
So much farming on a small scale, giving Japan high points for survival in
times of disaster or breakdown of distribution system. Lots of decorative
plants and flowers as well. Always a pleasure to admire. - posted in
Saunters
6-17-14 - Audio of
an interview with Niels Holm which starts in middle of
interview II
here - that's over half way through that interview and the audio is
still 1:14:25 long.
I don't do much audio but some people want to hear Niels
so I told them if I ran across a tape with him on it I'd post it.
I actually told people when I interviewed them that I
wouldn't keep the tapes and that they could edit anything in the future -
so they'd speak more freely. I erased lots of them and recorded over them.
Now I think that was shortsighted. But no matter. Look at the post of a
Nisargadatta quote on the 16th. That's the sort of thing I tell myself. Or
Philip Whaten's "Just enough survives," which is a cuke motto. - dc
Niels
Holm Memorial Page
Chris Hedges interviews and comments on Noam Chomsky - He calls
Chomsky America's Socrates. Reviewed Socrates for an hour and think, ok,
but without the emphasis on mind, thought, inspiration, the welfare of
ones soul over politics, the divine. Hedges is no stranger to such
thinking as he has a Masters in Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. I
take it he was referring to Chomsky's use of clear thinking for the
benefit of all beings. -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
In my opinion
they need to make bike ringer use mandatory in Kyoto. They swoop by on the sidewalk
chillingly close and without warning, making one aware that a casual side
step might have been a catastrophe. While on the subject of bikes, they
get stolen in Japan. John Einarsen returned from dinner with us to find
his locked bike gone. Don't know if he got it back. It could have been the
police picked it up for it was in a no bike parking zone. In that case a
fine would have sufficed to insure its return. While on the subject of
pilfering - watch out for umbrellas as well. I recall stepping into a
convenience store in the early morning dark while waiting for a bus in a
downpour. When I stepped back out, my umbrella was gone. Not an isolated
instance. On the other side, once while walking down a country road in
Obama (where there are two monasteries that cater to Western enlightenment
seekers), a few drops of rain began to fall and an old woman ran from a
distant farm house to hand me an umbrella. And recently saw many clear and
white cheap umbrellas here and there that seemed to be communal, up for
grabs. - posted in
Saunters
6-16-14 -
Why I Stay in Monasteries - written a while back by Eric Arnow, sent to
his Uncle. Posted at the bottom of his cuke interview.
Eric's cuke page
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Blue Cliff Records-53
is from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 4
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
Which are harder to find in Kyoto's main train station? Trash
receptacles or seats to rest on for a while? Ian asked a policeman why no
trash containers and was told terrorism. They're not that easy to find
anywhere. Sometimes there are recycling containers by vending machines
that tempt one to sneak a gum wrapper in. Seats in stations, parks, stores
- not easy to come by. Keep busy. - posted in
Saunters
My intention to
wake you up is the link [between our respective dreams]. My heart wants
you awake. I see you suffer in your dream and I know that you must wake
up to end your woes. When you see your dream as dream, you wake up. But
in your dream itself I am not interested. Enough for me to know that you
must wake up. You need not bring your dream to a definite conclusion, or
make it noble, or happy, or beautiful; all you need is to realize that
you are dreaming. Stop imagining, stop believing. See the
contradictions, the incongruities, the falsehood and the sorrow of the
human state, the need to go beyond. In dream you love some and not
others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all.
Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in
freedom is love of all.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://mpeters.de/nisargadatta
- thanks Andrew Main
6-15-14 - From the
National Religious Campaign Against Torture:
Why is the federal government planning to expand its
supermax prison beds at a time when the rest of the nation is waking up to
the horrors of solitary confinement? The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
plans to add new ADX (Administrative Maximum) supermax prison beds, the
most extreme form of solitary confinement, along with new Special
Management Unit (SMU) cells, where two people are held in 23-hour-a-day
lockdown.
NRCAT invites you
to
join a national call-in day on June 26
to urge Attorney General Eric Holder to
build on his recent statements about the harms of solitary confinement by
ensuring the BOP makes
no increase in isolated
confinement in the federal system. -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 8
- 1984
Riding on the #5 bus in Kyoto, talked to a woman from Wisconsin who has
been there 58 years. I told her that I could tell by the way she waited
for the bus that she wasn't a tourist, seemed at home. Said we were on our
way to the Baptist Hospital. She said her daughter was born there. She
came as a missionary. Katrinka figured she'd been at the small church in
our neighborhood. I asked if she planned to go back. She shook her head,
said she went to the US 2 years ago. Said, "It has changed but I haven't
changed with it. Japan has changed but I've changed with it." - posted in
Saunters
6-14-14
- Dying, Bereavement,
Psycho-Spiritual Care, and Buddhist Chaplaincy - from Jonathan Watts
website
which features
Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved in the Modern World: Global
Perspectives Edited
by Jonathan Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu (Wisdom Publication – Boston &
the Jodo Shu Research Institute – Tokyo)
Amazon link
Read
more about this book and subject in the Death and Dying section
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Blue Cliff Records-52, Joshu's Donkeys Cross, Horses Cross is
from the 1964 Wind Bell volume
3, issue 3
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Broke my USB modem. Am uploading via Katrinka's computer. Bit of a
hassle. Not in big city now. May be able to replace or might have to wait
a week. Love, dc
6-13-14 -
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Blue Cliff Records-49 is
from the 1964 Wind Bell volume
3, issue 2
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How to open a can without a can opener - thanks Gregory
- posted in Misc
Pride in work - Example # 82. The way the jokaso,
septic tank cleaning man, would cheerfully announce his arrival at our
home in Okayama over two decades ago. He wore white gloves, had a little
mixer with a long extender, walked to the septic access behind the house,
added something that helped to break down the fecal matter I guess. He
would close the lid and bid us farewell. I'd jump out and thank him. He'd
bow, say something polite and be off with a spirit akin to a superhero off
to the next. - posted in
Saunters
6-12-14 -
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- 1984
DRUGS AND THE MEANING OF LIFE - Sam Harris
- posted in Misc and
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events due to his early emphasis on the imorality of the
war on drugs.
The “war on drugs” has been lost and should never have
been waged. I can think of no right more fundamental than the right to
peacefully steward the contents of one’s own consciousness. The fact
that we pointlessly ruin the lives of nonviolent drug users by
incarcerating them, at enormous expense, constitutes one of the great
moral failures of our time. (And the fact that we make room for them in
our prisons by paroling murderers, rapists, and child molesters makes
one wonder whether civilization isn’t simply doomed.)
We're both generous tippers in America and abroad to the extent that
it's appropriate. We're both worked in restaurants, especially Katrinka,
and thus are tip conscious. One thing we all appreciate about Japan is not
tipping. This is better than not having to tip. In many other places one
doesn't have to tip but a small tip is appreciated, and often a small
amount means a great deal to a waiter or cab driver in a third world
country. In Japan tips are not expected, not wished for, not thought of.
Maybe in some instances it is but don't know what they are. Service is
almost always extremely good, delivered with seeming pleasure. Payment is
received with effusive arigato gozaimashita! - DC- posted in
Saunters
6-11-14 -
Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies - an article from
late last year in NYTimes. It's an interesting corralery to yesterday's
post on CO2 increases reducing nutritional value of crops, something that
was unexpected.
These articles turn my attention to a cuke link from
late last year, 12-29 from an October NYTimes article:
And then there's overpopulation -
at the root (Thanks
Michael Katz). Andrew Main in Santa Fe. Also mentioned that as the primary
problem. How could anyone doubt this? Will post more on this.
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Blue Cliff Records-46 is
from the 1964 Wind Bell volume
3, issue 1.
From Cuke Archives
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Won't drink non alcoholic beer in US because it has half a percent
alcohol. I never was a big fan of beer but now both Katrinka and I
have become fans of zero percent alcohol beer we found to be quite popular
in Japan, and a bit expensive. We're careful to look for the 0.0% but also
we could taste it if there was 0.5%. I know because tasting it is how I
discovered that alcohol free beer often just means almost alcohol free.
Teresa in Okayama said that alcohol consumption is way down in Japan,
especially with young people. But have seen a lot of people drinking the
0.0%. - DC- posted in
Saunters
6-10-14 -
Mark Schumacher's
Onmark Productions has so
much to offer on Japanese Buddhism, statues, culture.
Here's the
Buddhism link. - thanks Robert Yellin (featured two
days ago) - posted in
Saunters
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
71-12-17 - The
first meeting after Shunryu Suzuki died. Baker and Katagiri are now being
called roshi. Don't think Shunryu Suzuki's picture is used on altars in
zendos as planned at this meeting. Maybe it was for a while. Katagiri did
preside over the 1972 winter-spring practice period as he had the prior
fall-winter one but none after that.
These are the last board and meeting notes in this series. It's the only
one for 1971 and there were clearly some missing from earlier years. Made
copies about twenty years ago in the records storage room at the City
Center of the SFZC. These are the only ones that were found there.
Adam Kō Shin Tebbe's Zen
in America documentary in progress,
seeks more funds.
Alexander Shulgin, Psychedelia Researcher, Dies at 88 - NY Times
“I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the
spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its
existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that
can catalyze its availability”
-
posted in Misc
6-09-14 -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication 1961-2012
presented in this index of PDF links
in a chart that includes links to a page for each lecture on
shunryusuzuki.com which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring
the 19th entry:
Blue Cliff Records-40, Rikko's Heaven And Earth is from the 1963 Wind Bell volume
2, issue
8.
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
Speaking, rather
writing of Jay and Kyoko, affectionately known as Kyokes, yesterday, we
are compelled by loyalty and admiration to share with you, dear reader,
that they've got Kyoto Art
and Antiques in Seattle. Robbie took Hoitsu Suzuki there a while back
and he spent a lot of time looking around. Jay said his presence increased
sales and that people were buying items just to give to him. Before we
left we heard Jay's magic fiddle evoking the heart of Ireland at the Gael.
If, however, one
finds oneself in Nevada City rather than Seattle, we advise to peruse the
wonders of Kodo
Arts ---[Kyoto link]
where Jake will assist. - more in
Saunters
6-08-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 6
- 1983
Robert Yellin Yakimono Gallery
- met this cool dude and high end ceramics maker through best Kyoto buds
Jay and Kyoko. He's been in Japan for over 30 years. Katrinka and I are
vacating our Kyoto apartment today. Off to an airport hotel in Osaka. Fly
off tomorrow to parts unknown. How great it's been to spend these last ten
weeks in Japan. What a wonderful city Kyoto is. There are seemingly
endless fascinating people and places. One can be in a mountainous forest
in any direction including inside the city That's true of a great deal of
Japan. They almost nuked Kyoto in WWII. [Read
the 3rd paragraph here.]
- posted in
Saunters
6-07-14 -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication 1961-2012
presented in this index of PDF links
in a chart that includes links to a page for each lecture on
shunryusuzuki.com which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring:
Blue Cliff Records-36, Chosha's Strolling about Mountains and Waters is from the 1963 Wind Bell volume
2, issue
7.
From Cuke Archives
2013 Scans
Katrinka, Kyoko Maeda and I DC visited with Mayumi
Oda (Mayumi Oda
Fine Art) who is doing a workshop at the
Kyoto Impact Hub with Silvia
Nakkach.
Silvia teaches sound and music at CIIS
in SF, CA, has a long history with the Ali
Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA and created
The Vox Mundi Project.
- more in
Saunters
6-06-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
70-07-22,23 -
Couples don't need to use same name, just need permission from Suzuki or
Katagiri to live together. $5,000 for building improvements City Center.
New days they allocate 20 or 30 times that much for a study. Dan Welch to
be next board meeting chair. [These days Dan is back in Santa Fe planning
on opening a small independent zendo].
Met Damien Douxchamps at the zazenkai (zazen gathering) at
nearby Shisendo last Sunday
morning. - more in Saunters
6-05-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication 1961-2012
presented in this index of PDF links
in a chart that includes links to a page for each lecture on
shunryusuzuki.com which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring:
Blue Cliff Records-30, Joshu's Large Radishes is from the 1963 Wind Bell volume
2, issue
6.
Here's the best link for Jonathan
Watts. It's the home page of the bereavement link posted before. The
Wikipedia link posted a few days ago was for another person of the same
name. Apologies.
Two books by Jonathan Watts
This Precious Life:
Buddhist Tsunami Relief and Anti-Nuclear Activism in Post 3/11 Japan
Amazon link to This Precious Life
Lotus in the Nuclear Sea: Fukushima and the Promise of Buddhism in the
Nuclear Age - by Jonathan Watts and David Loy
Lotus in the Nuclear Sea - Kyoto Journal article by Watts
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
6-04-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 5
- 1983
With friend Kyoko Maeda, Katrinka and I hiked up Daimonji
yesterday, the big kanji "dai (freat)" on the eastern mountainside
way up overlooking Kyoto.
Here's a good page for it with photos in
Open Kyoto
- posted in
Saunters
We can look at time as space being constantly born. -
Kabumpkan
6-03-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication 1961-2012
presented in this index of PDF links
in a chart that includes links to a page for each lecture on
shunryusuzuki.com which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring:
Blue Cliff Records-25 is from the 1963 Wind Bell volume
2, issue
5.
Women with umbrellas for the sun which is getting hotter every day -
and other comments posted in
Saunters.
Included is this Kukai
statement about suffering picked up at Toji in Kyoto.
Jonathan Watts has worked with shut-ins and suicide prevention in
Japan. Check out this link
on that.
He says he suggested to
Larissa MacFarquhar, staff writer for the New Yorker, that she write about
Ittetsu Nemoto's work with Japanese shut-ins.
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
6-02-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC
Vol.
XVII - 2012 - Zen Center 50, Fifty Years of Wisdom and Compassion
That's the last one - each Wind Bell has been
featured here in What's New. Also - now all of the hundreds of PDFs posted
here on cuke since last summer, the
2013 Scans,
have been optimized for size so they'll load quicker and with OCR for
searching. - thanks Peter Ford
Nitsa Marandonatou's nature photography
website - Nitsa did the
Betty Warren book
posted on cuke a few days ago.
Betty Warren cuke page
Let our return flight to America go unused today.
Noh theater outdoors among the stately roofs at the Heian
Shrine arrived 4:30pm, started an hour later. As it got dark, the fire
ceremony. Four plays - first two slow, long, minimal, eerie. Third one
more for common people it seemed - like a comedy, lots of talking. Fourth
one great costumes. Out at nine.
Takigi Noh - shows great costumes - page for show we saw
Noh on Kyoto
City Web
Takigi O-Noh (Bonfire Noh performance) - on Japan Official Guide
- posted in
Saunters
Mentioned when we first got here had dinner with Jonathan
Watts in Kamakura.
Video interview on Tricycle
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events - more later.
6-01-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication 1961-2012
presented in this index of PDF links
in a chart that includes links to a page for each lecture on
shunryusuzuki.com which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring:
Blue Cliff Records-20 is from the 1963 Wind Bell volume
2, issue
3.
Had a great visit with CEO Toru Shimakage and his chief editor Eisaku
Kawashima at Samgha Publishing
(Japanese site) in Tokyo yesterday. - more in
Saunters
May
5-31-14 -
Koyasan mascot like something out of Peanuts everywhere as little
statues and on posters and billboards. - more in
Saunters
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
70-05-20,21 -
Ralph Silver and crew go to Tassajara to film segment for film, Sunseed
(now on
shunryusuzuki.com in film
section). Rohmer's film didn't happen. Wonder if they have any footage?
Beck's cabin didn't happen. Don't think Santa Barbara house happened. Dana
Fraser didn't go to Tassajara to translate for Tatsugami. Other little
stuff did happen.
5-29 and 30-14 - I'm so happy to present
Catherine E. "Betty"
Warren
- Nitsa Marandonatou's wonderful Book on Betty Warren
with many photos - feel free to download. It is not available via regular
sources. Each copy cost Nitsa over $125. - thanks to Peter Ford for
making it websize
Betty Warren cuke page
Kelly Chadwick's photo of Andrew Atkeison's iron face
sculpture that we had in John Tarrant's field marking boxer Lola's grave.
When Kelly trimmed some trees there last fall, I asked him to take it home
to Spokane with him. Thanks Andrew.
Loading late again today. Almost time to upload tomorrow's so let's let
it count for both cause pretty busy these days. Today's the third and last
day in Koyasan, tomorrow early go to Tokyo to meet the CEO of Samgha,
publisher of the new translation of Zen Mind,
Beginner's Mind and
Zen Is Right Here (Zen Wa Ima Koko).
Zip there on the Shinkansen - over 500 kilometers in a little over two
hours. More on Koyasan. - more in
Saunters
5-28-14 - Loading late in the US day. Tomorrow's late too but hopefully
not this late.
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication 1961-2012
presented in this index of PDF links
in a chart that includes links to a page for the lectures on
shunryusuzuki.com.
Today featuring:
Blue Cliff Records-19 is from the 1963 Wind Bell volume
2, issue
2.
Made some corrections to the Philip Whalen interview thanks to a
note sent
by David Schneider that is now tacked to the end of the interview.
Don't know quite how long ago the note was sent. If I don't do something
right away it can get lost in a sea of notes, emails, and thoughts. Thanks
David. - dc
Katrinka and I are in Koyasan (search Internet for images).
- more in
Saunters
5-27-14 -
Interview with Daigan David Lueck
Letter on a visit with Shodo Harada Roshi
to Sendai soon after the earthquake and tsunami
of 2011 by Domyo, a French monk from Sogenji temple
in Okayama Japan March 28 – April
5, 2011. The third of three
letters. - posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Had a fascinating evening with Ian Shortreed. Check out his website,
Kyoto Gardens. Twenty-three
years ago he gave me a CD Rom that is now this web site. As we walked by
the Gosho, the Imperial Palace ground, he said that the vast public park
in there is the best garden in Kyoto and always open. -
posted in
Saunters
5-26-14 - RIP Kendrick Rand, husband of Annie, ex of Yvonne, father
to Hillary and Chris with Yvonne and Carlyle with Annie. Condolences to
all of you. Katrinka and I called yesterday to send our love. She worked
for him at his restaurant, the Sand Dollar in Stinson Beach which he sold
some years ago. I enjoyed stopping off there for a chat with him on my way
back to Bolinas three decades ago. He was fire chief there for years.
Before that he was manager of the Mingeiya on Union Street in San
Francisco and before that the MDR, Minimum Daily Requirement in North
Beach. I can remember Chris bussing tables there in the sixties. Katrinka
was in the parade in Stinson on Kendrick Rand day.
Read about
it and more here. Here's a film called
Kendrick Rand Day 2001.
NYT interview with Tom Robbins - thanks Tom Silk
Eiheiji 2nd day - in
Saunters
5-25-14 -
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Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication 1961-2012
presented in this index of PDF links.
Today featuring:
Blue Cliff Records-14 & 15, Ummon Zenji is from the 1963 Wind Bell volume
2, issue
1.
Eiheiji 2nd day. Tomorrow. And more.
TSA site with stuff found.
5-24-14 -
S E N D A I
R E P O R T
on a visit with Shodo Harada Roshi soon after the earthquake and tsunami
of 2011 by Ekei Zenji, a German monk from Sogenji temple
in Okayama Japan March 28 – April
1, 2011. ( One
more letter from Myo, another disciple who accompanied Harada Roshi, will
follow) - posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 4
- 1983
Reminder: These newsletters now not only broken down into individual
issues but optimized for size with OCR (optical character recognition)
thanks to Peter Ford who is also processing all cuke PDFs this way.
Folders A and B in
2013 Scans are completed and
now will load much faster and, where applicable, will respond to text
searches web-wide and with the cuke site search from the site search box
near the top of the What's New and Home pages. We're approaching the end
of uploading the PDFs onto cuke. The next step with these PDFs will be to
complete organizing them into more logical categories.
Eiheiji 2nd day coming up tomorrow I hope. - dc
5-23-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition) and links to
shunryusuzuki.com page for the lectures now being worked on.
Religious Activity is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue
13.
Eiheiji report first day.
5-22-14 - Nothing for this day. We were at Eiheiji. - dc
5-21-14 -
Letter From
SHODO HARADA ROSHI ABOUT HIS VISIT TO SENDAI -
written recently after the March 11, 2011
earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
Two more letters from disciples who accompanied him will follow. -
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Shodo Harada cuke page
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC
Not a Wind Bell, but the Tassajara 25 Year Anniversary Book
- low def for quicker loading - photos lower quality. -
thanks Peter Ford
Tassajara 25 Year Anniversary Book
- high def
Off with Katrinka to Fukui Ken tomorrow then to
Eiheiji for a night,
Eternal Peace Temple - one of the two main training temples of the Soto
sect where Shunryu Suzuki practiced after college and where some of his
early students went like Jean Ross, Grahame Petchey, and Philip Wilson.
Not bringing my Zenbook so no post tomorrow. Hoitsu Suzuki arranged it. We
are to be Sanrosha.
Here's the
Sanrosha Guidelines PDF
Here's
the Sanrosha permission
A little intimidating. Was there in 91 with Katagiri's
widow, Tomoe. We were special guests. I called it jidai geki (period
theater). It's like going back in time. We'll see how it is this time.
Pray for us. - DC
Wikpedia
Eiheiji page
Here are some photos or just do a Google photo search for Eiheiji
posted in
Saunters
5-20-14 - Meanwhile back at Sonoma County, CA, thanks to Andrew Atkeison
for helping Tozen Akiyama with computer stuff and going over some pages
Tozen has written that we're looking forward to seeing. Added some links
to Tozen's cuke page. He's one
of a handful of Soto Zen priests who came to the West and started centers.
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition) and links to
shunryusuzuki.com page for the lectures now being worked on.
The 11th lecture
(notes)
Blue Cliff Records-6, Ummon's Every Day Is A Good Day is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue
12.
There is now a new index page for these lecture files with links to the
lectures (or notes from lectures as in these early ones) as text files presented on
shunryusuzuki.com. - thanks Peter Ford
Privacy - Terms
and Conditions my Apply
How Snowden's
Revelations Have Strengthened the NSA
DC opinion - in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
On signing. When Katrinka and I were walking in Arashiyama the
other day, - more in
Saunters
5-19-14 -
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Archives. - H Group
The Way of
Eiheiji - booklet to accompany the recordings done by Elsie Mitchell
in 1959. Way of Eiheiji
cuke page (with old scans)
Elsie Mitchell main page
Deep Kyoto - much
here on our current place to be.
Read about Deep Kyoto Walks.
Call for submissions for Kyoto Journals issue 82 on food -
When I told John Einarsen that KJ should do an article on Tom Kirchner, he
thought maybe in the upcoming food issue featuring Tom's gardening (see
last two days' posts in Saunters).
The
photographs of John Einarsen
The
photographs of Stewart Wachs
Have photos with and of the later two from dinner the
other night. And incriminating evidence. . - posted in
Saunters
Linked to the Sasaki
Archives where, I just learned, they excerpted from and linked to
my piece on Joshu
Sasaki entered last August.
Ralph Nader
on C-Span - loved it - DC - thanks
Matthew Zawisky
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
It is so weird to receive so many emails offering me fortunes, more this
year than ever before. - more in dc misc4
5-18-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
70-04-4,5 - Donnie
Crockin (Don Deangelo) bread shop out of City Center. Ed Brown's cook book
- Tass. Bread Book?
discussion - if he latter, don't have the Shambhala contract yet but it
came out that year. Room and
board for City Center $90 a month, dorm charge $2.50 a night.
More on Tom Kirchner and bummed out. - in
Saunters
Putting this in the Zen Mind,
Beginner's Mind section:
The
old 1979 Japanese translation called Shoshin-Zenshin [Beginner's
Mind-Zen Mind] (which never heard anything good about) published by Hakuba
Shobo
The new 2012 Japanese translation called Zen Maindo Biginaazu Maindo (Japanized
English title). This is published by Sangha which also published
Zen Is Right Here in March of this
year. This is an Amazon link and ZIRH Japanese version, Zen wa Ima Koko is
one of the suggested other books listed with cover.
Here's that Amazon link.
5-17-14 - Visiting Tom
Kirchner (a
Saunters
post) More soon I hope about this, the Arayshiyama area of Kyoto,
and an evening with John Einarsen and Stewart Wachs of the Kyoto Journal.
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition) and links to
shunryusuzuki.com page for the lectures now being worked on.
The 10th lecture
(notes)
62-11-Sun-Faced-Buddhas-Moon-Faced-Buddhas is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue
11.
5-16-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 3
- 1983
I've always bragged about how Japan vending machines and busses give
change and now I'm starting to experience buses that don't give change. -
that announce it on the readout up front that says what bus stop is next.
It seems like I happen to be here when they're going through a transition
because I'm experiencing it more and more. Tonight coming home from a
great dinner more on that later the bus screen up front said no change and
then the lady up front put a bill in and got change and paid with it. That
was weird. Maybe they're going to take the change machine out next and
until then they'll give change. Always so many things to figure out. - posted in
Saunters
5-15-14 -
The Record of Linji
by Thomas Yuho Kirchner (Editor), Ruth Fuller
Sasaki (Translator)
amazon link
Books by Thomas Kirchner
Books by Ruth Fuller Sasaki
Read the
dust jacket to know more about this book
A 2008 article on Tom Kirchner completing this unfinished work by Ruth
Fuller Sasaki and getting it published
Tom Kirchner is one of the people interviewed in
Zen and War.
He lives in Kyoto and is a staff researcher at the Rinazi sect's Hanazono
University.
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
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from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition) and links to
shunryusuzuki.com page for the lectures now being worked on.
The 9th lecture
(notes)
62-10-Bodhidharma-Zen is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue
10.
Barbara Wenger's Community Grows
celebrates 20 years in the
SFZC City Center neighborhood and beyond. -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site Presents Renewed Threat
- thanks Taigen
-
also
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Our practice - or some
of it. in Saunters.
5-14-14 -
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Archives. -
Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC
Vol.
XVI -
2007
All
the Wind Bells files are of optimized size for easy loading - 1/4 the size
that they were. - thanks Peter Ford
When we rode the local train to Nara from Kyoto yesterday, I looked
down on all the tracks and train cars sitting on side tracks, spare parts,
lots of heavy iron. - more in
Saunters
Meditations from the Slow Lane
Personal writings from a life explored
through Buddha Dharma and poetry.
by Jerry Bolick
Much Jerry Bolick
on cuke - try the site search box above.
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
-
End
Matter -
Notes on the Text and Pronunciation
Acknowledgments
Sources
Bibliography
Glossary
- with a
column for notes and links to come on the right
This concludes posting the entire book, Crooked
Cucumber. The text needs to be cleaned up - there are many breaks where
words were divided where they need to be reconnected for instance.
5-13-14 -
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Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition). We'll be
featuring them one at a time here on cuke. - Thanks to
Peter Ford for getting this together.
The 8th lecture
(notes)
62-09-To-Tame-Tiger is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue
9.
Today Nara - Kofukuji with the towering pagoda, hondo covered for
restoration till Heisei 30 (2018), National Museum where drunk on statues,
Todaiji first blown back by sight of the huge hall, reputedly the largest
wooden structure in the world, housing the Dai Butsu with accompanying
Kannons and guardians impressively large as well. A giant 1000 year old
cypress at Kasuga shrine. Walk walk walk.
Returned to Tuesday night samba jam at local dive - dreamy, rhythmic
Latin hours rolled by. - posted in
Saunters
5-12-14 -
HOW THOREAU'S WALDEN POND MIXED WITH THE GANGES AND YOGA CAME TO AMERICA
WITH SWAMI VIVEKANANDA. - Reflections on Water by Peter Malakoff -
available as an eBook from iTunes at that link.
YouTube video on the
book
Peter Malakoff's
blog with a bit on walking into Tassajara
posted the other day.
posted in
Others
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
ZC history items from Wind
Bells
Draft page for
Wind Bell with ZC history info - for WB Vol.XX-2, fall 1986
Group A -
Added two page scan to
Diamond Sangha newsletter 1970 review of ZMBM - July-Dec., New Series,
Vol.1 - Nos. 4-6. Still last page of review, p.4, missing.
CC (Crooked Cucumber) group -
Tarrant County, TX,
Bestseller list 4-18-99
Smells not so pleasant come up through the drains in our Kyoto
apartment so we keep them plugged when not in use. Wonder if this means
they don't have U-shaped drain pipe. Sometimes the toilet room smells like
tobacco smoke surely coming from the room below. Can slide a fusuma door
to block off the bath, sink, and toilet roomettes. The bathroom though has
a great tub. I never want to live without one. And I'd rather not live
without a toilet with a sprayer for ones bottom. - posted in
Saunters
Surely the last comment on Tyson's Inexplicable Universe. Why this
mixing of spiritual stuff with science seems off limits? - more in
dc misc4
Debunking a global warming skeptic in a way that probably does not
satisfy global warming skeptics. -
posted in
Climate Change
5-11-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition). We'll be
featuring them one at a time here on cuke. - Thanks to
Peter Ford for getting this together.
The 7th lecture
(notes)
62-08-On-Obon is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue 8.
Kyoto Journal -
Perspectives on Asia - the state of the art - read it, subscribe.
Read about it.
Promoted by cuke since before we were born.
Walked
here yesterday
and here's the Google image results of "walk
to Kiyomisudera". - posted in
Saunters
Another way of looking at climate change and suggesting other threats
loom greater. - thanks Andrew M. - posting in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events and
Climate Change
Congratulations to Kelly Chadwick on becoming an ISA certified, a
Certified Arborist, an international certification. When in Spokane,
get your tree work done by Spirit
Pruners.
Congratulations to Clay Chadwick on completing court mandated volunteer
hours.
More mere speculation on Inexplicable Universe. Tyson mentions human
and chimp only 1% DNA difference and yet their smartest are about at our
toddler level. - more in
dc misc4
5-10-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
70-02-16 -
Statements by Sotan Tatsugami and Shunryu Suzuki on establishing Buddhism
in the West.
Katrinka just commented on how surprising it was to see how quickly the
monks and students at Sogenji did things. -
more in Saunters
More Inexplicable Universe. Love the way Tyson is into what physicists
don't understand and how great what they don't understand is. His approach
is scientifically humble. - more in
dc misc4
5-09-14 -
End The War On Drugs, Say Nobel Prize-Winning Economists - pointing to
enourmous suffering it causes, urge harm reduction.
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition). We'll be
featuring them one at a time here on cuke. - Thanks to
Peter Ford for getting this together.
The 6th lecture
(notes)
62-07-On-Zazen_Shinsanshiki-Ceremony is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue
7.
Heard drums and voices chanting on the street on Monday. It was
a neighborhood matsuri, fesitval. - more in
Saunters
Here more thoughts on the why just one beginning of life riff
from yesterday. - more in
dc misc4
Spent two days just fixing link on this site. Now for some other
housekeeping - backups and more too tedious to mention. - dc
5-08-14 - A page of a Shunryu Suzuki lecture edit draft for
1967-01-12.
We're trying to determine whose hand the edit marks are in, probably
either Trudy Dixon or Marian Derby. - more in
lectures
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 2
- 1983
Teresa
Koboyashi mentioned in several recent posts has some art on the
Celeste Prize site.
- posted in
Saunters
Due to the
wonders of Hide My Ass, have been able to watch Neil deGrasse Tyson's
Inexplicable Universe from Japan. Love this science stuff though most of
it I can't really comprehend. Had some thoughts. - more in
dc misc 4
5-07-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition). We'll be
featuring them one at a time here on cuke. - Thanks to
Peter Ford for getting this together.
The 5th lecture
(notes)
62-06-What-Is-Law
is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue 6.
Just saw an impressive documentary on urushi, Japanese lacquer, on
Core Kyoto,
a production of NHK - it's the one named Kyo-shikki. It got well into varieties and
details of the art and craft of ancient and current masters. Katrinka's
ikebana teacher, Yasuko Nishimura gave her the
DVD. She's in it talking about why she uses shikki, lacquer ware to serve
meals to her family.
- more in Saunters
Got an answer from a member of
Bozeman Dharma Center
concerning looking for Buddhist's in Missoula. It's under the guidance of Anam Thubten whom Katrinka and I went to hear talk several times before
leaving the Bay Area. He would be one of the best reasons to return. - dc
5-06-14
- Mitsu Suzuki turned 100 this April 26th and forgot to post a
happy birthday greeting to her here. Maybe forgot because had posted about
her and that upcoming event earlier in the month when Katrinka and I
visited with her. So today went back and put that happy birthday greeting
in on 4-26-14. Also added this greeting to the
Mitsu Suzuki page. In
this way the past changes.
Was reminded of this because Layal Bockhorst Smith mentioned it
in an email. Layla has a sitting group in Corte Madera, CA,
Mountain Root Sangha - and in
Montana. Montana Zen
Meditation Center.
Any Buddhist or Buddhist fellow traveler in Missoula out there? Please
contact us.
You might not notice this link on the Mountain Root Sangha page to
mountains
walking.
Layla Smith
(Bockhorst) page
In response to a letter complaining that the SFZC charges for zazen,
let me assure you that it does not. Maybe they have a sign that suggests a
donation but anyone can sit zazen at the SF Zen Center or any of its
affiliates or any Zen Center or other Buddhist center that I know of for
free. Checked with the treasurer and the secretary to make sure. - dc
Jordan Thorn assured me that zazen in the three centers was free and
added:
If we have an
all day sitting or a workshop that includes meals, there can be a fee.
But even then anyone can come into the zendo and sit zazen, for free.
I'm the treasurer, and I know what I say is the way things are.
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC
Vol. XV-1 -
2006
All
the Wind Bells files are of optimized size for easy loading - 1/4 the size
that they were. - thanks Peter Ford
Visited with sculptor
Yoshitada Ihara and wife Maki on the way home from Okayama and they
sent these photos.
Stephen Hawking on great boon and dire threat from AI
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Epilogue
- with a
column for notes and links to come on the right
5-05-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition). We'll be
featuring them one at a time here on cuke. - Thanks to
Peter Ford for getting this together.
The 4th lecture
(notes)
62-05-Buddha-Story
is from the 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue 5.
These Shunryu Suzuki lecture PDFs from the Wind
Bells and now All
the Wind Bells are files of optimized size for easy loading - 1/4 the size
that they were. - thanks Peter Ford
Back in Kyoto from Okayama. Thanks to Harada Shodo Roshi and
Chi-san and the monks and students at
Sogenji
for being there and being such inspiring and gracious hosts.
- and more in Saunters
Another Creation Myth - Dreamed I went to a meeting of a group
that says that our reality was created by a Japanese amateur scientist,
Hitoshi Nakaguma, six years ago. All our memories and history and the
whole universe that we know came with it. I asked how did he create it if
it wasn't here for him to be in to create it. Where would his desk and
laboratory go and so forth? I learned that he exists in another reality
and that his desk and laboratory was there though he does have that here
too. He's the only one in both realities. I asked if they worshiped him
and was told, no, it's just good to know where we came from. -
posting this in
dc misc 4
5-04-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 1
- 1983
Global cooling scheme
increases dangerous seafood toxin that destroys kidney function.
- thanks Andrew M who writes "This is what the Hopis call
the Crooked Path, wherein every "solution" proposed by human cleverness
merely creates new problems. According to the Hopi Prophecy, we are headed
for a great Purification (Hopi: Powateoni), and in fact I believe we are
already well into it:"
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Relatively, what we've all got in common is we're born and we die.
Everything in between varies. - Kabumpkan
Had a great time yesterday at Teresa and Hiroshi's cafe in Ushimado
named Tereya Cafe
- more in Saunters
5-03-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition). We'll be
featuring them one at a time here on cuke. - Thanks to
Peter Ford for getting this together.
The 3rd lecture
(notes)
62-04-Square-Zen
is from 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue 4.
On April 12th early that
morning Huston Smith fell and lost consciousness. Throughout the next
week his health continued to deteriorate and the Dalia Lama sent an
emissary to read the Tibetan Book of the Dead at his bedside. However,
after a couple of days Huston regained consciousness, gradually began to
eat and drink a little, and is now much improved in mind, body and spirit.
Although his hearing has greatly deteriorated, Huston has
regained both his wit and wisdom. He has confined himself to bed and tires
very quickly. - from an email received by DC
Peter Malakoff responds to DC comments on the 4-30-14 post on his
memories of walking into Tassajara and meeting with Shunryu Suzuki.
I was wrong. They've been
chanting the Heart Sutra in English here at Sogenji in Okayama, Japan,
since before when I arrived in 1988.
- posted in
Saunters, adding to yesterday's
post on Sogenji. More tomorrow.
5-02-14 - Morning service at Sogenji starts at 4am. About 40 of us from
all over the world. Shodo Harada Roshi entered wearing only black robes
and sat facing the altar. Students and monks seated on both sides facing
each other. No bowing before chanting, only three at the end. Service went
on for an hour. First came the Heart Sutra in English - the version Peter
Schneider created for Tassajara I think. I don't think I've ever heard
English chanted in Japan before - or heard of it being chanted in Japan.
The rest was in the old Sino Japanese - strong, fast, Harada's voice low,
gravely, with frequent vigorously punched syllables adding a fierce
rhythm. Impressive.
- posted in
Saunters, adding to yesterday's
post on Sogenji. More tomorrow.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
70-02-15-
Yoshida Roshi (not Yoshida) coming - female priest from Japan who taught
us how to sew okesa and rakusu, the vestments signifying ordination.
She had studied with Hashimoto who Katagiri studied with. It was that
lineage, not Suzuki's that this sewing came from.
5-01-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication
presented in this index of PDF images
with OCR (optical character recognition). We'll be
featuring them one at a time here on cuke. - Thanks to
Peter Ford for getting this together.
The 2nd lecture
(notes)
62-03-What-Is-Zen is from 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue 3.
Off to Okayama to stay at
Sogenji
which Elin and I lived next door to for three and a half years. Looking
forward to seeing Shodo Harada Roshi, Priscilla, the monks and students,
and old friend artist Teresa.
Here's a link
to a page with a bit on Sogenji
- posted in
Saunters
Others - various contributions by
others - as of 12/07
Was showing someone some of the places to go on cuke and realized that
this section like so much that is here would be vary hard for someone to
know it is there. Added it to
Places to Go. This site really lacks good organization. It's a big
mess. - feel free to make a better map. - dc
posting this in
dc misc 4
April
4-30-14 -
A
memory of hiking into Tassajara and meeting Shunryu Suzuki from
Peter Malakoff's
blog which contains more about hiking in the wilderness around.
Tassajara and a lot more than that. - thanks to Marilyn Sandperl
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Outline of
Shunryu Suzuki college thesis
Japanese group
Flyer from Shoganji, the
temple where Shunryu Suzuki was born. Note on it says Butsumon Sogaku died
November 22nd, Showa 8 (1933) - a note I took while in the founder's hall
with the markers of past priests. Added this date to
Suzuki chronology.
Katrinka and I were just there a month ago and have some photos she took
to post. - dc
Updated the Suzuki and Suzuki student related post log on the right
side of the
Shunryu Suzuki
Index
Pedestrian safety in Kyoto - Bicycles on the sidewalks - cannot step to
the side without looking back. Always should look both ways before
crossing a street because there could be a bike though I don't recall
seeing that but mainly because one might inadvertently look the wrong
direction, the one from home. And always look both ways before entering a
sidewalk. - posted in
Saunters
4-29-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments
from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication scanned and
presented here as PDF images with
OCR (optical character recognition). We'll be
featuring them one at a time here on cuke. - Thanks to
Peter Ford for getting this together.
All entries for the first few years are based on notes. Recording began
midway through 1965.
The first entry (notes)
62-02-True-Zen, is from 1962 Wind Bell volume 1, issue 2.
It's raining lightly. When it started to rain, Fumi called it
potsu-potsu. Found
this YouTube explanation of that word. - posted in
Saunters
4-28-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC
Vol.
XXXIX-2 - fall 2005
M. Katz comments on yesterday's sesame post. Flash forward to
Tass Fall practice period '81. Gomashio is served with every meal.
Somewhere in the middle of the practice period, Richard Baker has it taken
away. Can't remember exactly why; he may have said a diet dictated by the
senses leads to sugar-toasted salt. Anyway, after a week or two of silent
grumpiness, a student turns red and explodes at a general meeting. He
explains bitterly that eating potato without salt was the last straw and
should not be asked of any human being. It was the closest I saw to a
mutiny at Tassajara. Next day, gomashio comes back to stay.
DC comment: I remember this having happened though I wasn't there. It
had to do with salt. Dick was anti-salt. He complained about gomashio
earlier like when I was director and finally decided to ban gomashio but,
like you pointed out, was overruled by popular demand. He was also
anti-soap, preferred to wash off without it before entering the hot tubs.
But soap was never banned. - posted in
ZC Stories, gomashio
The cream puff or whatever it was that Katrinka bought at a local
(Kyoto) bakery was so good, that as I was eating it I realized it would
soon be gone and experienced the tragedy of loss, like having a loved one
die in my arms. Good whole wheat bread as well. Katrinka should make a
bunch of mini video shots of some of the places where we get food. Like
the place we got most of our dinner tonight - homemade food placed around
in serving dishes one chooses from, places in to go containers to get
weighed - like Whole Foods but the store about the size of a one car
garage.
- posted in
Saunters
4-27-14 - DC introduction to
the Japanese translation of Zen Is Right Here.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Cloud Hidden Friends
introductory letter - 1983 (file name misdated
1982)
Sure would like to get the six missing issues. I remember getting an
email from someone some years ago saying that the collection of these
newsletters in the SFZC library had been thrown out. Maybe I should ask
them anyway. And maybe Berkeley ZC has them. Really need to index them so
that we could see what's in them. Lot of interesting letters. - dc
Nuts are expensive here except for peanuts, a legume. But sesame seeds are
reasonable - tan or black - and there are both types of sesame butter and
you can get the seeds roasted and roasted and ground. In the morning I eat
a banana with sesame butter and we love gomashio, sesame salt, which I
quickly make by combining roasted sesame seeds with the roasted, ground
sesame. Excellent on brown rice or vegetables.
Here's a story about the beginnings of using sesame salt at Tassajara.
A brief history of sesame ----
even more
- posted in
Saunters
4-26-14 -
Happy 100th birthday Mitsu Suzuki
Mitsu Suzuki page
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
70-01-02 - Suzuki comments on how to use upstairs and downstairs rooms
at new building (which is not what happened) and on oryoki (which was not
to be used as much as the thought it would be outside of Tassajara). I see
my name mentioned about something I don't recall. $50 donations to Peggy (Jiyu)
Kennet's group and Blue Mt. Meditation
Center (had no idea about this). Super low amounts to charge for
coming summer's Tassajara guest season and for people's stipends. Other
details.
To yesterday's post Part Two of and Evening with Brian Victoria, today
included an addition
he sent to the part about Japanese soldiers in Vietnam and Indonesia - a
bit of history he calls
"a fascinating and
little known story, especially in the US."
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter
Nineteen --
Final
Season ---- 1971
- with a
column for notes and links to come on the right
Picnic with Fumi mother and Maki sister of woman who's apartment we're
renting and a few of the latter's nice young female friends - on the banks
of the Kamo River off Marutamachi in Kyoto on a sunny Saturday. Walk from
Sanjo station to there and there to home about eight kilometers. So many
neat little places on the side streets. One tiny store featured posters
with Zappa, Beefheart, and Subgenious. Saw old building being demolished.
- posted in
Saunters
4-25-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Sokoji, Soto Zen
Mission items from San Francisco Public
Library archives
Sokoji page
On Watching
the film Zen and War - an
evening with Brian Victoria Part Two
Believe me, there is no
goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is
nothing else to reach except yourself. All you need is to understand,
and understanding is the flowering of the mind. The tree is perennial,
but the flowering and the fruit-bearing come in season. The seasons
change, but not the tree. You are the tree. You have grown numberless
branches and leaves in the past, and you may grow them also in the
future - yet you remain. Not what was, or shall be, must you know, but
what is. Yours is the desire that creates the universe. Know the world
as your own creation and be free. – Nisargadatta
- thanks Andrew Main
4-24-14 -
SUZUKI ROSHI WRITES ON THE PRACTICE PERIOD
Wind Bell Vol. VI Nos. 2-4, P.4-6
This is a piece found in a Wind Bell a
couple of years ago that wasn't in the archive. But I mistakenly only got
the first paragraph then (which was transcribed by old SFZC Zennie Edgar
Arnold in Munich). Here's the rest of it did this morning. It will be
entered into the archive at
shunryusuzuki.com soon as
67-08-00WB-A.- dc
Quote attributed to the Dalai Lama on
Facebook and elsewhere obviously not from him.
Here's one discussion of it with the quote.
He'd never say something so complicated, slick, and organized. Why would
someone do this, put his name on this? This isn't this first time this has
been done with other quotes too - and other people. It's fairly rampant.
Just looked at a Dalai Lama Quotes page on Facebook to which I posted:
Some of these quotes are surely not the Dalai Lama. Is anyone fact
checking these? I think this page should be called Quotes with the Dalai
Lama's Name Put Under Them.
posted in
dc misc 4
Hiroshima Peace Media Center article on
Aimee Tsujimoto, journalist whose mother experienced the atomic
bombing,
conveys the dangers of radiation. Aimee is the partner of Brian
Victoria. - posting on
Recent evening with Aimee and Brian
and
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
4-23-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC
Vol.
XXXIX-1 - winter, spring 2005
Asteroid impact risks 'underappreciated' - B612 Foundation report.
Sending satellite up in four years to better discover and track potential
major threats to earth. The fact that this is being done not by
governments but by concerned citizens of earth is another example of our
species scant, yet mature, ability to confront major dangers that aren't part of our
immediate game. The B612 Foundation was founded by former Apollo Nine
astronaut Russell Schweickart. - posted in
Species Threat #2
Here is a recent video on the ongoing tragedy at Fukushima:
It features a powerful interview with the former mayor of Futaba.
Brian Victoria sends. - posting in
Brian's cuke page and
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
4-22-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Universal Life Friends
issue 3 - 1983 (Issue 2 is missing)
Ananda Claude Dalenberg cuke page
Breaking these scans down to the individual issues.
Included Brian's corrections and additions to yesterday's
evening with Amy (sp) and Brian Victoria.
I remember having a bit of trouble getting aspirin here before. Now
there's one choice we've found so far: 30 500 mg tablets for about nine
dollars. No cardio aspirin.
- posted in
Saunters
4-21-14 - Part One - an evening
with Amy (sp) and Brian Victoria. Spent yesterday late afternoon and
Evening with Zen at War author Brian Victoria and his partner of
twenty-seven years, Aimee who for years has been giving public talks on
the imminent threat of radioactivity from Fukushima and other nuclear
power plants. Wow. I think I'll write down what I can remember today. In
the meantime, check out the
Brian Victoria link on cuke. He's controversial - search the web - you
won't have time to read it all. - this intro posted in
Engaged Buddhism
and
Saunters
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-11-01,2B - Just
the prior board meeting notes written up better
69-12
- Only these handwritten notes and doodles.
Didn't put up the happy Easter post till later in the day yesterday.
Also forgot to note the 4-20 significance for pot smokers and neo Nazis
but we can't keep up with everything.
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter
Eighteen --
The
Driver ---- 1971
- with a
column for notes and links to come on the right
4-20-14 - Happy
Easter which I see as Christian enlightenment day, death of the small self
day. - dc
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Receipt from Rudy for Bell [69-9-30.pdf missing] We
got a lot of statues and stuff from Rudy who was a character -
Albert Rudolph on
Wikipedia
Notes on meaning of Sanpachi Nenju
chant at Tassajara done on 3 and 8 days - a ceremony Tatsugami
brought, done before 4 and 9 rest days from 1970. Not sure how long it
continued.
Abe must act now to seal Fukushima reactors, before it's too late -
Julian Gresser - thanks John Steiner - posted in
Engaged
Buddhism
Adultary site big in Japan -
thanks Gregory (Not that it has anything to do with
our being here) -
- posted in Saunters
4-19-14 - John Tarrant article,
The World Catches Us Every Time in Shambhala Sun. PDF with magazine
cover.
John adds: My name is on the cover and the cover text says the problem
with distraction is that it stops you from getting enlightened.
Fortunately my piece has nothing to do with that:-) -
posted in others contribute
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC
All of the early one page and few page Wind Bells
are now posted separately. Vol. I, 1961 - 62 had 13 issues,
Volume II, 1963 had 8, and Volume III, 1964 had eight. - thanks to Peter
Ford
Updated the
John Steiner interview with some links to noble activities he's been
involved with. He's been an engaged Buddhist from before he was a Buddhist
and since. - posted also in
Engaged
Buddhism
Happy
birthday, Clay Chadwick - 23, born in Okayama, Japan on this day.
Japanese tooth picks, at least the ones I've used, are the good design
with a sharp end and a handle end, but are soft wood like in the US and
don't hold the point well unlike the excellent hardwood toothpicks in Bali
and I think in Thailand they were hard too but will have to double-check.
- posted in Saunters
4-18-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Universal Life Friends
issue 1 - 1983
Ananda Claude Dalenberg cuke page
Breaking these scans down to the individual issues.
Elizabeth Sawyer interviewed about
Alan Chadwick - There's a lot of Alan Chadwick on cuke. Need to do a page for him.
Later. Too tired. Do a site search from up above or on the home page. - dc
Visited with Jim Morton today. He was a Shunryu Suzuki student who went
to Japan in 72. He's a calligrapher, artists, and sculptor. He's doing
well.
Interview
with Jim Morton from September 2012.
He lives near Sanjusangendo which we visited first. Do an image search
on it.
- posted in Saunters
James Lovelock on Environmentalism has becom a religion
Wikipedia
Lovelock
posted in
Climate Change
4-17-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC -
Volume
XXXVIII-2 - summer, fall 2004
This is a Japanese song with subtitles about radiation
inspired by the disaster at the nuclear power plant at Fukushima. Ainu are
descended from the aboriginal people of Japan. - posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
We're in an
Air BnB rented apartment in Kyoto for two months.
Here's the link to our
particular place. Before Air BnB I don't know how this would have been
possible. Japanese people are extremely helpful but Japan makes everything
difficult and expensive, especially for foreigners, and Air BnB cut
through all of that.
- posted in Saunters
At first we
do meditation. Then we undo meditation. - Kabumpkan
4-16-14 -
Miriam Bobkoff's blog of
years is coming to and end.
Here's
the home page.
Letter from
Miriam about going to Sokoji in 1965.
For more on Miriam on cuke, put her name in the site
search box above.
Adding to yesterday's post about Issho Fujita. The books he has
translated are
Zen Keys by Thich Naht Hanh
Buddhism without beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
Feeling Buddha by David Brazier
Buddhist Psychology by Caroline Brazier
Emptiness and Brightness by Don Cupitt
Peaceful Action, Open Heart by Thich Naht Hanh
Issho Fujita suggested Crooked Cucumber to the publisher he
works with but was told it's too long. A number of people have tried and
failed to get it published. Fujita pointed out that Hoitsu Suzuki said it
had been translated. I said yes, by an old student of Suzuki's who'd been
asked by the family not to publish it after everyone who looked at the
translation including Kaz Tanahashi and translator Shin Yoshifuku said it
was not anywhere near publishable quality. It was useful for the family
though who were grateful to be able to read it in that translation.
Created a cuke page for Issho
Fujita
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-11-01 - Long
meeting, long notes. Lots of talk about SFZC students giving talks
outside, bringing in more Japanese priests, outside lecturers and
teachers, inviting Katagiri to stay. Marian Derby and Dick Baker talk
about publishing (Zen Mind) Beginner's Mind book showing no disagreement,
getting close to decision. Baker is in the states for a brief time from
Japan where he was living. ZMBM published the following spring.
Here's that discussion
extracted to put in ZMBM section. Much
more. Lots from Baker. Suzuki here and there. Getting ready to move into
the Page Street building.
More James Lovelock on humans being too stupid to prevent climate change
from the Guardian -
posted in
Climate Change
Tom Lehrer, an article on Buzz Feed about the great satirical songwriter
from the fifties and sixties. I had the Tom Lehrer Songbook in high school
and can sing one of his songs from memory right now. OK. I missed a few
words. Looked it up. Redid it. Tune approximately correct.
- thanks M Katz
and this is M Katz's favorite and it is good advice for aspiring
writers
I Hold Your Hand in
Mine by Tom Lehrer sung acappella by DC
We're going soon to the Kyoto International Community
House of KCIF, the Kyoto City
International Foundation (Kyoto Kokai Koryu Kikan), for Japanese
class. Katrinka will join a group class with multiple teachers who can
deal with anyone at any level and I will meet with a woman in the coffee
shop just to chat and ask questions.
- more in Saunters
4-15-14 - Yesterday posted about Zen Is
Right Here now available in
Japanese. I only learned about this because Issho Fujita got hold of
me a few months ago with some questions concerning the translation. I
thought he was the translator but he wrote me that the translator is "Toru
Shimakage, the president of Sangha, a Buddhist publishing company, maybe
the most active in publishing books on Buddhism in Japan now. I just did
proof reading and editing. And I wrote a commentary on the significance of
Suzuki Roshi in Zen in America." Fujita was the teacher at
Pioneer Valley Zendo in MA for 17.5 years. He is now working at Soto
Zen International Center located at Sokoji in San Francisco as Director, a
position that requires him to travel a lot. He's in Buenas Aires today. He
spends part time with his family in Hayama Japan near Kamakura in a
beautiful estate with a zendo and traditional buildings in a natural
setting bordered by a stream. He's done a lot of translating too. - dc
SFZC page for Issho Fujita
Here's a two year old article on Issho Fujita from the Japan Times.
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Program
notes for Stephan Truelove's
CD Music Memoriam
for Kobun Chino Otagawa Roshi
Rosa Gustaitus LA Times West Magazine March 9, 1969
article on
Tassajara
The Dharma Teachers International Collaborative on Climate Change
- posted in
Climate Change
There is so much more recycling now in Japan than when I
was here over twenty years ago when there was no official recycling that I
can remember and shocking waste. I've got to take the trash in a
designated bag out to the designated spot across the street now. That's
done Tuesday and Friday mornings. Can't put it out at night. Isn't much
and I bet we can figure out how to reduce it more because there are
official and private recycling, more than in the US.
- more in Saunters
4-14-14
- Zen Is Right Here is now available in Japanese as Zen wa Ima Koko.
The whole name, with subtitle, in Japanese appears
to be long like the American version. (Zen
Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of
"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind")
zen wa ima koko senkiyuuhiyakurokujiyuunendai amerika ni zen o hirometa
suzuki shiyunriyuu no oshie to itsuwa
(some weird romanization there maybe from translation
software for web)
That translates as the Zen (is) Now Here:
teaching of Shunryu Suzuki (who) spread Zen in Sixties America anecdotes
Here's a link to a page for the book on Yes Asia.
Zen Is Right Here page
on cuke.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Universal Life Friends
issue 5
- 1982
Ananda Claude Dalenberg cuke page
Breaking these scans down to the individual issues.
Michael Shuman's Commentary on
Community Economics caught my attention.
Especially found this interesting:
My Nominee for the Next Nobel
Prize in Economics - DC -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
We got plenty of cherry blossoms in Tokyo, Kamakura, and
Gifu, but were warned that they'd be gone when we got to Kyoto. First day
in Kyoto we walked in Cherry blossom snow down the Tetsugaku no Michi, the
Philosopher's Path. But yesterday there were still trees at the Imperial
Palace and elsewhere whose blooms hadn't fallen. Weather is mild. We
arrived at the perfect time. -
posted
in Saunters
Cool - today is 41414.
4-13-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC -
Volume XXXVII-1
- 2003
We should give up trying to save the world from climate change, says
James Lovelock.
- posted in
Climate Change
Happened to learn about and get into the
Kyoto Imperial Palace
on the last of five open to the public free days. Never been there.
There's so much to see here could take Katrinka for two months only to
places I've never been. - posted
in Saunters
4-12-14 - David Loy and John Tarrant will be at the
Rockridge Meditation Community in
Oakland, CA, Monday night. The Rockridge teacher is David Weinstein.
View more on this event here.
John Tarrant is the head teacher of the
Pacific Zen Institute in Santa
Rosa, CA.
David Loy website
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-09-09 - Nice and
short. Nothing special.
A bus to
nowhere, suggested by M Katz who writes: Heard this on
my car radio and thought it the best description of Zen I've ever heard.
It's about a 15-minute sound clip.I'm building a bus stop for myself.
Bought some excellent cue tip type ear swabs in
Kamakura, just what I've always wished they were like - fatter at the end
and not on a sharp stick that the end comes off of. The rest of Asia so
far I've only seen them with tips smaller that the US though those tips
don't come off. Most pleased. - posted
in Saunters
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter
Seventeen --
One
and Many ---- 1969-1970
- with a
column for notes and links to come on the right
4-11-14 - Daya Goldschlag (dc 1st ex)
writes about
Mitsu Suzuki after reading posts on DC visit with her in Saunters.
First night in Kyoto shopped at a large supermarket
(don't remember anything that big from before). Then on the way home
walked up to an organic vegan restaurant where we at great food and met
three cool dudes. - more
in Saunters
You may want to join the
Years of Living Dangerously watch
party for Episode One. It's a Showtime series on climate change. Looks
good.
- posted in
Climate Change
The Grand Rapids
Lip-dub Video was filmed May 22, 2011 as an official response to the
Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a ‘dying city.'
4-10-14 -
Heirs To Ambedkar: The Rebirth of Engaged Buddhism in India - Alan
Senauke's new book.
More about it.
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Alan Senauke cuke page
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Nona Ransom notes
(some in her hand) -
Nona Ransom
cuke page
Notes on Richard Baker,
Shunryu Suzuki, Ananda Claude Dalenberg
Japan update - Arrived her with Katrinka April 2nd late. - more
in Saunters
4-09-14 -
Call climate change what it is: violence - thanks
Taigen Dan Leighton (Rebecca is a Zenni)
- posted in
Climate Change
Wrote a note to Kelly about his painful sting from a stonefish in 1988
in Japan. - more
in
Saunters
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Universal Life Friends
issue 4
- 1982
Ananda Claude Dalenberg cuke page
4-08-14 - Shunryu Suzuki's widow, Mitsu Suzuki, showed me how she could
see Mt. Fuji, Fuji San, from her window. - more
in Saunters
Mitsu Suzuki page
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Universal Life Friends
issue 3
- 1982
Ananda Claude Dalenberg cuke page
4-07-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC -
Volume XXXVI-2
- fall, winter, 2002
Spent the night at Rinsoin, Shunryu Suzuki's home temple, and sat zazen
this morning with his son the present abbot, Hoitsu, and Hoitsu's son
Shungo, also a priest and next in line, and some men from Yaizu. After
breakfast and laundry, Katrinka and I visited with Mitsu Suzuki, Shunryu's
widow, and she gave me a copy of her new collection of haiku,
A White Tea Bowl: 100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life - edited by Kazuaki
Tanahashi, translated by Kate McCandless, introduction by Norman
Fischer. -
Amazon link
SFZC event:
A White
Tea Bowl: A Book Event Celebrating Mitsu Suzuki Sensei’s 100th Birthday
Mitsu's 100th birthday is coming up on the 26th of this month and she's
doing great, quite energetic, walking well, was quite affectionate,
hugging me repeatedly. Most touching.
Hoitsu's wife Chitose drove us to Mitsu's. Also there were Mitsu's
daughter Harumi and Hoitsu's sister-in-law, Mitsuyo, who is visiting from
San Francisco.
Hoitsu is now the Seido of a practice temple in Okayama where he's
leading a one week sesshin this month and going there for a week every
month. He'll also spend a week at Eiheiji later this month.
Mitsu Suzuki page
--- Hoitsu Suzuki
page -
posted in Saunters and
Sangha News
Information
Clearinghouse - Eric Arnow's favorite news site
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events and Eric's cuke
page
4-06-14 - Peter
Matthiessen has died. - thanks Brit Pyland
NY Times
SF Gate
Wikipedia
Peter Matthiessen’s Homegoing - NY Times Magazine -
thanks Doug McKechnie
Peter and his wife who died soon
after, Deborah, were at Tassajara with Suzuki Roshi and the rest of us for
a while. He became a priest in Maezumi's
White Plum Asanga. I loved his
At Play in the Fields of the Lord. He gave 1st wife Daya (Dianne) and
me The Tree Where Man Was Born for a wedding present. The cuke
bibliography, lists his book,
Nine-Headed Dragon River:Zen Journals 1969 - 1982 with the
following: "Matthiessen's path includes a bit of Suzuki, more background
accounts of Soen Nakagawa, Yasutani, and Eido Shimano Roshis." He was
helpful to me over the phone with research on Crooked
Cucumber and sent this
blurb. He's been a diligent, articulate trooper for harm reduction. -
DC
Danny Parker Seeks help
collecting material for book of Ed Brown's talks and more.
Read on
and help him.
Lots of cherry blossoms. Clear
view of snow covered Mt. Fuji snow covered, clear sky. -
posted in
Saunters
4-05-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Wesley Williams 1974 letter
to the SFZC on Shurnyu Suzuki, having read ZMBM.
1994 anti nuclear power
painting by Mayumi Oda, co-founder of Plutonium Free Future with
Kazuaki Tanahashi.
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter
Sixteen --
The
City ---- 1968-1969
- with a
column for notes and links to come on the right
Check out Sudo Yuko dot com,
the website for the professional photography of a kind young woman named
Yuko helped me find an ATM in Kamamkura where my debit card would work.
She saw I was having trouble and went way out of her way for Katrinka and
me.
- more in
Saunters
4-04-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
Universal Life Friends
issue 2
- 1982
Ananda Claude Dalenberg cuke page
Met with Ursula Okle and Rainer Holdt of
Sanbo Zen (formerly
Sanbo Kyodan but Kyodan became a bad word because the group that poisoned
people on the subways ten years ago were a kyodan which is just a word for
group). Walked with them from the Kamakura train station to the beach and
then to the zendo where we joined others for the evening sitting. This is
the zendo where Yasutani Haku'un and his heir Yamada Koun sat and taught
and from which so much Zen in the west has sprung including more than what
they include on their website. - dc
- posted in
Saunters
4-03-14 - After posting yesterday's article by Rger Angell in
miscellaneous, looked down and was
reminded of last year's 10-13
Pseudo Dionysius post and thought it deserved a more prominent place
and so, as a small step in the overhaul of this site's presentation and
organization, am adding the book to the
bibliography and the excerpt
to the Excerpts
section. This is early Christian Heart Sutra.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC -
Volume XXXVI-1
- spring, summer, 2002
Landed at Haneda, the old Tokyo airport last night, to learn that one
of our three bags didn't make it from Singapore where we'd changed planes.
It was Katrinka's. It arrived this morning at the funky hostel type yet
clean place where we stayed but we didn't know it because I'd walked out
to the big street to meet the delivery van thinking they'd never find the
little out of the way place were we were. Meanwhile the delivery vehicle
came in behind me. For a while we thought it was lost but found it in the
caretaker's office. He didn't know whom it was for. I had to climb in
through a window to get it. For about an hour we thought it had been
handed to "a foreign woman" who'd run off with it. A nice Indian woman who
lives there said oh that's the young long-haired Chinese man who lives in
the room marked office. So after an hour of confused drama we made our
noon appointment which I'll mention tomorrow. - DC
- posted in
Saunters
4-02-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC -
Volume XXXV-2 -
fall, winter, 2001
People in the West frequently mention sex, sex tours, illegal sex, sex
biz when they think of Thailand. That only came up a few times obliquely
on our three weeks there.
- posted in
Saunters
THIS OLD MAN - Life in the nineties BY ROGER
ANGELL in the New Yorker. Posted in miscellaneous.
4-01-14 - There is hope for us all
Sorry to miss another St.
Stupid's Day Parade in SF.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
They're all there now from the
Universal Life Friends issue 1
- 1982
to Zen Freethinker Issue 36 - 1991
44 in all from 1982 to 1991 (6
missing)
The middle 32 are named Cloud Hidden Friends
Ananda Claude Dalenberg cuke page
We just got a lot of dental work done in Thailand far cheaper than the
US. Recommend the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Hospital for that and
other medical needs. India was good too and much cheaper. When I write
good, I mean excellent - both countries - but not all experiences are as
good as ours. My dentist in Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu India had digital
ex-rays which I'm sorry Mission Hospital doesn't have.
Dr. Goffman warned us.
- posted in
Saunters
March
3-31-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells -
Volume
XXXV-1 - summer, 2001
Now they're all up. Will continue to feature one
every few days but they're all there - all 102 of them,
publication of the SFZC - 1961-2012 - - plus the
Tassajara 25 year anniversary book
at the
Wind Bells page
Learned something new the other day while looking at what I thought was
a banana tree. It's only that in popular parlance. Technically it's an
herb, an herbaceous plant - the biggest one in the world that can grow up
to 36 feet high.
I read this on a sign in front of some banana trees in a tropical
jungle. Checked it out today.
See this.
- posted in
Saunters
3-30-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXXIV-2A -
fall 2000, winter 2001 - since the missnumbered 1st one was
2, this issue was 2A
Early ZC board and biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-09-17 - Report
on letter from Kobun Chino to Shunryu Suzuki. Talk about member dues,
supporting new priests, about the new building at Page St. where they
haven't moved yet. Suzuki on sitting in the new building and Sokoji, the
temple they'll be moving from. Suzuki on one day sesshin and oryoki and
how many zazen periods to have in new building.
We saw a Gibbon family in the wild yesterday swinging around in trees.
They don't have tails. Wow.
- posted in
Saunters
3-29-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters -----
Cloud
Hidden Friends Issue 1 - 1983 - the prior one dated 1982, was
called the first letter, and is now labeled Introductory Letter.
Now these newsletters broken down into individual issues. This is the
1st newsletter.
Ananda Claude Dalenberg cuke page
The key point to understand about karma is that it is not an outside
power. - Kambumpkan
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter
Fifteen --
Tassajara --- 1967-1968
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
3-28-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXXIV-2 -
spring summer, 2000 - missnumbered I think. Should be #1.
Next issue is 2A. - dc
Another note from Taigen Dan Leighton:
This article by Julian Gresser, while highly technical, makes a strong
argument for preparing for another catastrophic earthquake affecting
Fukushima Daiichi. It
explains how earthquake prediction is becoming more accurate with
scientific advances, details the horrific possibilities which could
follow, and pleads for evacuation planning for the areas close to
Fukushima, including Tokyo.
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events and
Taigen's Peace and Justice Page ----
Taigen cuke page
Arrive in Japan in a few days and will be in contact with some folks
knowledgeable about what's happening with Fukushima. Kaz Tanahashi told me
not to go to Tokyo. I said I'd be in Kyoto. He said that's okay then asked
for how long. I said a couple of months. He said, "It's been good to know
you." Pray for us. - dc
- posted in
Saunters
3-27-14 -
A White Tea Bowl: 100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life -
by Mitsu
Suzuki, edited by Kazuaki
Tanahashi, translated by Kate McCandless, introduction by Norman
Fischer.
Amazon link
SFZC event:
A White
Tea Bowl: A Book Event Celebrating Mitsu Suzuki Sensei’s 100th Birthday
A note from Taigen Dan Leighton:
Danger from the Fukushima meltdowns continue.
Large amounts of
Radioactive Water continues to be released into the Pacific Ocean daily,
and Fukushima radiation has been detected on the U.S. West Coast.
And yet nuclear power somehow continues to be promoted as a solution to
the increasingly apparent perils of Climate Damage.
See "Fukushima
plant hanging by its fingernails":
- posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events and
Taigen's Peace and Justice Page ----
Taigen cuke page
From SFZC News
SFZC Board Meeting Abbreviated Minutes (3/19/14)
approved an amended Deed of Gift sending the Zen Center archives to
Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
- thanks Michael Katz
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters -----
Cloud
Hidden Friends introductory letter - 1982
Cover page for whole
collection made by his daughter Diane when she photocopied them.
Now these newsletters broken down into individual issues. This is
marked the first letter. After this he called them issues.
3-26-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters -----
Zen Freethinker Issue 33 from 1991
Breaking these newsletters down into individual issues. Next we'll need
an index
A bit busy here. Where am I?
- posted in
Saunters
3-25-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters -----
Zen Freethinker Issue
34 from 1991
Now these newsletters broken down into individual issues.
3-24-14 - Joel Weishaus, Artist-in-Residence at the Pacifica Graduate
Institute in Carpinteria, shares his Beginner's Mind Project with us:
The
Introduction has been revised (and to begin again)
"Winter
2013-14," concludes the one-year "Beginner's Mind" project
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-09-01 - Mainly
talk about the new building, 300 Page St., preparing to move in there, who
will do so. Anne Armstrong wants to come to Tassajara as a student last
week of September. OK if she doesn't do any readings. Anne was a
well-known psychic a number of students including Richard Baker saw. See
Anne
Armstrong cuke interview.
3-23-14 - Video interview with
Steve Stucky on Vimeo - thanks Elizabeth Sawyer
Steve Stucky (rip) cuke page
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Zen Freethinker Issue
36
Now these newsletters broken down into individual issues. Will be
linking to these next and deleting the multiples. - thanks Peter Ford
3-22-14
- Eric
Arnow on a talk to a group of monks at Wat Suan Dok, in Chiang Mai,
Thailand - an overview of his 2013 pilgrimage to China, a followup to
yesterday's post from his Bumble Buddhist blog.
Eric Arnow cuke page
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXXIII-2 - fall-winter
1999
Shambhala Center
Presents Book Reading by David Schneider on Philip Whalen
Crowded by Beauty, The Poetry of Zen Monk
Philip Whalen
at the Shambhala Meditation Center of San Francisco
1231 Stevenson Street
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30 – 9 pm
Free
Relevant links on
David Schneider cuke page
and
Philip
Whalen cuke page
I don't think this book has been published yet. - DC
Not the sort of article I'd normally link to, or even look at, but
it's just what Elin and I did in Osaka after our wedding there in 1988.
It's also not the sort of thing we normally did in Japan. Tell about this
in Thank You and OK: an American Zen
Failure in Japan. -
posted in
dc misc 4
3-21-14 -
Meeting Ming
Hai
-
abbot of Bai Lin Si, the temple of Zen Master Joshu by Eric Arnow on
Bumble Buddhist. - sent from Chiang Mai, Thailand
Eric Arnow cuke page
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Steve
Tipton letter to SFZC on making Shunryu Suzuki lectures more
accessible back when we were first beginning to share the unpublished
material more widely. Now it is all available at the
Suzuki Roshi section of the
SFZC's website which is very well presented, the focus being the Dharma Talks
Blog moderated by Zen
Center Priest Korin Charlie Pokorny and in completeness at
shunryusuzuki.com
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter
Fourteen --
Taking
Root --- 1965-1966
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
3-20-14 - Erik Storlie’s new memoir: Go Deep & Take Plenty of
Root: A Prairie-Norwegian Father, Rebellion in Minneapolis, Basement
Zen, Growing Up, Growing Tender
has received some great reviews.
Check it out at
beginner zen dot com and on
Eric Storlie's cuke page
-
Amazon link
National Religious Campaign Against Torture -
NRCAT.org - has a lot of campaigns going -
just check their website. One is to
Take action today to end torture in California prisons. To send a message
on that
via this link.
-
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
Fred Kimball, Psychic Friend
- part four of a four part article
3-19-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Niels Holm to DC 2007
in Japanese Group
letter from Mitsu
Suzuki on To Shine One Corner of the World (Zen Is Right Herre)
Fred Kimball, Psychic Friend
- part three of a four part article
3-18-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Letter from Elsie
Mitchell in support of Cuke Project (she used DC name but it's for
this work)
Institute for Historical Study (IHS) a Cuke Project fiscal sponsor -
IRS tax exempt
letter
Fred Kimball, Psychic Friend - part
two of a four part article
3-17-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-07-15-16 -
[This link no longer applies - see three files it was broken up into at
link below] Long, should be broken up into multiple PDFs, poor quality - that's the
way it was when I copied it twenty years ago. Lots of important stuff.
July 24th board meeting included in this group accidentally. Note on that
reads "We resolve to buy the building at 300 Page Street." Shunryu
Suzuki announces resignation from Sokoji and ---
more here
Fred Kimball, Psychic Friend -
part one of a four part article
3-16-14 - Andy Ferguson's
Net Zero Made Simple
Andy Ferguson cuke page
Also posted on
Climate Change
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Issues 35, 36
(link now goes to index for individual issues) -
that's the last of them. But they're already obsolete. Read #35 below.
Just received these newsletters broken down into individual issues. Will
start linking to those next and deleting the multiples. 36, the last one
will come next. - thanks Peter Ford
Zen Freethinker Issue
35
Farewell Hal Douglas -
- more in
dc misc 4
3-15-14 -
Photos of our friends Vidya and Wai
and others and us including the kids and the school in Kuala Lumpur.
- posted in
Saunters
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXVI-2 - fall
1992 - this is the one that was missing.
Kelly Chadwick left the wine biz last year to pursue his passion of
working with trees. Check out
Spirit Pruners.
Recently he wrote:
Here’s I am pruning an English Walnut at a fabulous farm by the border
with Canada last Spring. Headed back there and two other neighboring farms
next week. The area is beautiful and filled with wildlife that travels
around me while working. Last year, along with many other creatures, a
Sharp Shinned Hawk landed next to me with a bird in it’s talons and spent
a couple minutes subduing it’s prey before flying off.
See the photo on Kelly
Chadwick cuke page put together today.
3-14-14 - Alan Senauke cuke link
page. - Wanted to link to something for Alan yesterday but there's so
much here on cuke, decided to make a cuke link page for this engaged
folk music dharma bro Buddhist.
Yesterday at the CLIC (Cooperative Learning Initiative Community) where
Katrinka and I are staying in Kuala Lumpur, we spent the afternoon with
ten great little kids ages six to eleven and a couple of babies and some
mommies and daddies.
- more in
Saunters
Wai,our host along with Vidya, is in charge of the school. Here's her
website for the school and education:
Learning Beyond Schooling
A nice clip of
Shunryu Suzuki on
YouTube from his San Do Kai talk that was filmed at Tassajara. (The
kanji on the blackboard are by yours truly. - DC)
You can find all
Shunryu Suzuki video at
shunryusuzuki.com. And this link will go where there are some links to
other compilations at the
Suzuki
video link here on cuke.
Living Color:
Painting, Writing
and the Bones of Seeing
Coming in March
go to Natalie Goldberg dot com
for more
Yesterday's
"drop belief and forget teachings" was a quote stolen from Kabumpkan.
3-13-14 -
Warm Weather and Warm-Hearted Practice —Linda Galijan, Tassajara
Director from Tassajara News. - posted
in
Climate Change
Presenting
Suzuki Roshi's Teachings -
with Sojun Mel Weitsman
August 29- September 1 (Friday- Monday) - All are welcome.
We're in Kuala Lumpur now staying at CLIC (Cooperative Learning
Initiative Community) that's in a residential area. It's also a school run
by Wai. Her husband is Vidya. I met them through
Alan Senauke.
- more in
Saunters
Vidya's website - Samma-ajiva
(right livelihood) dot net - Beyond Buddhism - transcending self,
transforming society
Vidya's blog
A tediously accurate map of our solar system - thanks
Andre Main - I've long been into scale models of our solar system
which is usually pictured with just vaguely approximate sizes of the
objects (such as earth) but no attempt to show distance.
some prior links on
this here
Added to DC bio page today:
Even though the core of all this is preserving the legacy of Shunryu
Suzuki, I don't think about him much or about practicing his way and so
forth. To me the essential step of spiritual practice is to drop
belief and forget teachings. Just taking the next step, the next breath, and doing my
duty. - dc, 3-13-14
3-12-14 - Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter Thirteen --
Journeys
- 1963-64
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
BBC had a story about children in Syria featuring a photo of a young
girl with the tagline that she earns $4 a day. News media frequently
mentions a figure a person or persons earn in some foreign country without
stating what the earning power of $1 is there compared to the US or
Europe.
- more
in
Saunters
From NBC Dateline -
My brief Rendezvous with the Guru - creepy
3-11-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
email on Crooked
Cucumber 1999 from friend of mother's friend. -
Group CC
------------Crooked Cucumber
main page
dc note about Della Goertz
for event for her at the SFZC City Center
2002 -
Group H
------------Della Goertz cuke page
letter from
DC in Japanese to Mitsu Suzuki 2001 -
Group Japanese -
------------Mitsu
Suzuki cuke page
Leaving Bali tomorrow morning for Kuala Lumpur then Thailand then
Japan. Back to Bali in July. Best place we can afford to live it seems. To
errands and packing! - dc.
- posted
in
Saunters
3-10-14 - Shunryu Suzuki memorial at Green Gulch Farm
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXXIII-1 -
spring, summer 1999
Reflections on Traditions Cafe
- near term extinction talk - posted
in
Climate Change
3-09-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
29,33,34 -
30,31,32 missing
Ketut, the driver, told us about his sister on the way back to Sanur
from Amed yesterday.
- more
in
Saunters
3-08-14 - Malaria
rises with the tempurature. Read about this ten years ago too.
The #1 killer of all time inches up. (correct me if I'm wrong)
- Contact DC - posted in
Climate Change
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-05-07 -
Resolutions - one resolution that didn't happen was to buy a
Volkswagen Bus for Tassajara. What were they thinking of? The road is too
steep and grueling for a VW bus repeated use.
Saturday - Ketut is here to pick us up in Amed
where we've been for four days. - more
in
Saunters
3-07-14 - On the Floor of Greens - 5 -
Mr Johnson - written twelve years ago
about my experience of being host at Greens, the SFZC's restaurant, for
the first two years. - DC
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Group H -
Letter from Shunryu Suzuki
former student Asaoka
with photos of DC 1994 trip to Japan to gather information for Crooked
Cucumber bio of Suzuki.
photos one - DC
with former Suzuki students
Asaoka, Amada,
Suetsune, Hoitsu Suzuki with rakusu, his wife Chitose top left, Ms
Suzuki and her daughter at bottom. Asaoka multiple times.
photos two - with
former SFZC abbot Christina Lehnherr at bottom right.
3-06-14 -
Two new
abbots for the SFZC - Furyu Nancy Schroeder and Rinso Ed Sattizahn
step up.
Statue of Shunryu Suzuki at the SFZC's City Center Gets a New Seat
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXXII-2 -
fall, winter 1998.
Ketut our driver friend is not a big fan of Bali Hinduism which is his
religion.
- more
in
Saunters
3-05-14 - On the Floor of Greens - 3 -
Greens Blues - written twelve years ago
about my experience of being host at Greens, the SFZC's restaurant, for
the first two years. - DC
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter Twelve --
Sangha
- 1961-62
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
Today's facts are tomorrow's
superstitions. - Kabumpkan
3-04-14 - Byron Black
wrote about Nanao Sakaki. Black
lives in Jakarta now. We had some back and forth about Japan and
Indonesia. - in
comments which is hardly ever posted on anymore. These emails are from
back in September. Always trying to catch up. - dc
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Group H -
errata for Shambhala
Sun article - wonder what issue and where the article this goes with
is? I remember it - something to do with one of my books or something
relating to this work - the top line was cut off on each page.
Note for Norman
Fisher's Shinsanshike from Richard Baker read by DC
Institute for Historical
Study donation receipt - sent out by DC to donors with note in 2000 or
so. The IHS is one of cuke's fiscal sponsors. The other is the Pacific Zen
Inst.
Some Japanese - Kanji
for Kishizawa and other plus possible Shunryu Suzuki kanji relating to
Richard Baker - should separate.
Ward Ruscoe memorial video now linked from
his memorial page with a
few comments added.
3-03-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-05-07 - Lots of interesting discussion. Suzuki comes in toward the
end.
This predates prior board note post.
On the Floor of Greens - 2 -
Hard
Work, Low Pay - written twelve years ago
about my experience of being host at Greens, the SFZC's restaurant, for
the first two years. - DC
3-02-14 -
The Essence of Meditation with Lewis Richmond
- Interactive online course
- March 10th through April 4th, 2014
Lew Richmond cuke page
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Issues 26, 27, 28
- (link now goes to index for individual issues)
Amarillo friend Jim Griffin has some nifty stuff on Japanese film,
jazz, funnies and comics in
Uncle
Griffie's Jazz and...
Early morning in Puputan Park in Denpasar
- more
in
Saunters
3-01-14 - Why I Became a
Buddhist, Meeting My Two Spiritual Teachers, Ascending and Descending
Spirit by Paul Shippee
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXXII-1 -
spring, summer 98.
More of Ray Rimmer's
photos of Ward Ruscoe and family and Ray and me.
February
2-28-14 - Andy Ferguson - Since we
installed our green energy changes we’ve easily learned how to use them to
minimize energy. - read more on
Andy's cuke page.
Added a photo
of Ward Ruscoe to his memorial page plus the time and place of the
memorial.
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Group H -
Elephant in the
Room - a poem by Allen Ginsberg [cuke
interview with Ginsberg]
Andy Ferguson - Since we installed our
green energy changes we’ve easily learned how to use them to minimize
energy. - read more on Andy's cuke
page.
2-27-14 - RIP Ward
Ruscoe, like a brother.
2-26-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Group CC -
Doug Luskatof
- sp? - Suzuki student comments on Crooked Cucumber
Bellingham Herald - review of To Shine One Corner of the World which
now in
Zen Is Right Here.
Crooked Cucumber
reviews page
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter Eleven --
Bowing
- 1960
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
How they say Sunday night.
- more
in
Saunters
2-25-14 -
On the Floor of Greens --- 1 -
Would You Hold Please? - Something written twelve years ago
about my experience of being host at Greens, the SFZC's restaurant, for
the first two years. - DC
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Group CC -
Two reviews of Crooked Cucumber from way back in 1999.
Washington Post
Primary Point - Chogye Int'l ZC of NY
2-24-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXXI-2 -
summer, 1997
I went to this page
on Einstein researching the authenticity of a quote I liked a lot and
which I've repeated. The way I repeated it was, "The universe is an
illusion, just a very convincing one." I should have checked earlier. It's
not that far off, essentially the same meaning, but it's different. But
aside from that, the stuff on this page is so profound I can't believe it.
I don't spend a lot of time with this sort of heavy material but when I do
I'm impressed with what people can come to with another type of
meditation. Einstein said he got it all without math. And the site is full
of material like this. Over my head but like how I see things. Just don't
ask me what that is. - dc
- posted in
dc misc 4
I do not like to ride or ride on motorbikes. I never have. This is
motorcycle kingdom. There are a lot of cars and SUVs and trucks too but so
many motorbikes.
- more
in
Saunters
2-23-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Issues 23,24, 25
- (link now goes to index for individual issues)
Father Steve Frost's Nepsis site
gets a new look
Mob of locals on the beach this morning.
- more on that, Jake, Asia
in
Saunters
2-22-14 - Gordon Geist remembers
Shunryu Suzuki - submitted in 1999 and good to read again. - with an
intro by DC
Alan Chadwick dot com - A
Gardener of Souls - now has
Challenges Faced by Alan Chadwick at Green Gulch.
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
Isn't this a nice quote?
Read about its source here. I get stuff sent to me all the time that
people don't check out. And I'm sure cuke is full of stuff I didn't check
out.
2-21-14 -
Saying Farewell: A Record of the Funeral for Myogen Steve Stucky -
with a link to video of the ceremony.
Steve Stucky memorial page
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-05-21 - Talk
about housing which will change in half a year when they move to Page
Street.
Listed as novice priests: Mel Weitsman, Dick Baker, Phillip Wilson,
Jean Ross, Claude Dalenberg - in no particular order. Grahame Petchey not
included because he wasn't part of the scene anymore.
Suzuki disciples
We go to see Jake tomorrow. - posted
in
Saunters
2-20-14 - By All Means by Edward
Espe Brown, illustrated by Margot Koch, with a painting by John Simpkins
--Missing Links Press, San Francisco (112 pages)
Review by Catherine Gammon on SFZC.org
Publisher's Flyer PDF
To order, send a check for $20 plus $6 shipping/handling
(California residents please add $1.80 sales tax) to Edward Espe Brown, 75
Sequoia Road, Fairfax, CA 94930. Please include a note that it is for the
book. Alternatively, you may pay using the PayPal button on the
Audio Dharma
page.
Edward Brown Cuke Page
Six Poems by Bijan Jalali sent by Gary Gach
Gary Gach has a cool site
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
Part Two
-
America - 1959–1971 -
Chapter Ten --
A New Leaf
- 1959
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
2-19-14 -
Rilke and Nanni
by Jenny Wunderlyoard
Jenny
Wunderly cuke page
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Group H -
A
College Activist Comes Home - by Betty Warren
Betty Warren cuke page
2-18-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXXI-1 -
winter, 1997
Found some notes to add to the
Bob Watkins
page.
Bob Watkins told DC
3/19/10
SR told him, "You may leave
the monastery but the monastery won't leave you."
"I found a better word for
you than patience. It's constancy." Suzuki Roshi to Bob working under the
bridge over the small creek
Little by little was a big
teaching of his. Big things are accomplished in small increments.
Kotoku Bunryu. Bun from Kobun and Ryu from Shunryu. [Given to Bob by Kobun
Chino when he was ordained]
2-17-14 - A Train of
Memories ---- in
DC Writ
They did do a bit this Sunday but still, cuke dot com's irresponsible
irrelevance award goes to mainstream TV news for their coverage of climate
change:
TV news shows almost never
cover climate change, which ought to be one of the most
aggressively-reported issues around, given that, y'know, it's a dire
threat to the planet and everyone on it. A recent
study from Media Matters found
that the Sunday shows on NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox spent a combined 27
minutes on the topic in the whole of 2013. Meet the Press was singled out
as "failing to offer a single substantial mention of climate change" for
the entire year. - Media Matters
Read on
- posted in
Climate Change species threat
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-01-25
- Same as posted recently but now with proposed bylaw changes - nothing
anyone would notice or care about but this version is more complete.
2-16-14 - Community Grows is going strong.
Here's the Valentines Day Card they sent out. Kudos to Barbara Wenger
for all the years of effort. Koshland Park for those who don't know is
accross the street and up the block from the SFZC City Center. -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Issues 18, 19 missing - will try to get
Issues 20, 21, 22 -
(link now goes to index for individual issues)
Would love to get these newsletters separated. We're paying for these
scans so can't afford now to have it redone but it could be done with a
PDF program separating the files into separate issues. Then an index would
be good. Just one of many Cuke Archives projects to go. - dc
The
jet stream is meandering. -
posted in
Climate Change species threat thus a threat to Zen practice
Hope we don't get in trouble here.
Check out this example of Bali justice. - posted
in
Saunters
And added to yesterday's Saunters post below which I'd
thrown up quick so we could watch Dallas Buyers Club. The star
incidentally did grow up in the oil biz in Texas. Also incidentally since
this is where I come from, I knew guys who went out at night sometimes to
beat up men with inclinations like many of those in this film. It has
change there so much it's hard to believe. - dc
2-15-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Group H - Note from Daya
(Dianne) Goldschlag -
Dr. Bill Wenner
saves her - Daya wrote for me to read at his memorial. - dc
A critical look at AA and addiction treatment. - posted
in cuke misc
- - thanks Kat who got it from Jeffrey
Heard some great Latin music tonight done by local group, Elsavadore (not misspelled),
with locals dancing Salsa beautifully then from Sammy Blues Man One Man
Band from the Maluca Islands
playing Presley, Robert Johnson roughly, unevenly, bass e string flat, but
very cool, singing well too
though most words unintelligible which was fine with us. The Maluca
Islands, also the Maluccas, incidentally, were once called the Spice
Islands. We were walking by on a breezy eve after rain and happened on
this quite enjoyable music.
- posted
in
Saunters
2-14-14 - Selemat Hari Kashih Sayang which is Indonesian for Happy
Valentines Day!
Go to Katrinka's FB
page to see our Valentines gifts to each other. - dc
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
part one,
JAPAN
1904–1959
-
Chapter Nine -- An Opening -
1956 - 1959
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
Animal Whisperer
Calms An Angry Panther - thanks Katrinka
Her name
Anna Breytenbach is and here's her site -
Animal Spirit
2-13-14 - At Steve Stucky's funeral on February 9th, Edward Brown left
the following message from Katrinka and me on the Green Gulch altar with
other messages.
Farewell Steve. we will miss your friendship, support, humor, and
teaching in everything you did. Gone way too soon. Too soon but well
done. Gratitude.
Steve Stucky memorial page
I'd asked Edward to read it if it was appropriate. He said that he'd
heard there were only invited speakers. I responded thanks, that I was
supportive of that policy because SFZC funerals tended to go on for too
long and the main reason was so many people making statements. I was at a
funeral there some years ago for a friend who'd been in a couple of men's
groups and he knew people at GG and elsewhere and so many people had
something to say I finally left, went into the Wheelwright Center and
helped myself to the bountiful spread before driving back to Sonoma
County. - DC
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXX-2 -
summer, 1996
Locals fish as well as swim in the calm, shallow water within the reef
here in Sanur. I swam into a net today. - more
in
Saunters
2-12-14 - Alan Chadwick dot com
- A Gardener of Souls - now has a
page on Paul Lee and Richard Baker.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-03-31 - Talk about Abbot Shunryu Suzuki signing Board resolutions
or not and talk about Jean Ross being shuso soon, whether to leave Sokoji
or not, Richard Baker in Japan with Suzuki comments.
Went to the acupuncturist with Wai and impressive links about her
daughter Amrita's musical career. -
in
Saunters
2-11-14 - Jack Goldberg's name came up and found this PDF of a 1974
letter from him to Richard Baker with a dream about Shunryu Suzuki. So
here it is - posted in the new
H Section of
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives.
Looking from the dining room window down on traffic first thought there
were no motorcycles here in Kuala Lumpur... -
more in
Saunters
2-10-14 - Our Great Friend and
Teacher Kobun Chino ---- in
DC Writ
2-09-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Issues 15, 16, 17
- (link now goes to index for individual issues)
Sixty-nine years ago today at 2:15am.-
more in
dc misc 4
2-08-14 -
Funeral for SFZC Central Abbot Steve Stucky set for 3 pm on Sunday,
February 9 at Green Gulch Farm.
Go to that website to see it live.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
-
Adding the Tassajara 25 Year
Anniversary Book to the
Wind Bell page. All
these scans will be better organized and presented at some point. Now
we're just getting them on cuke one by one.
More on the science vs faith thing. I have an image of a debate between
science and religion where
-
more in
dc misc 4
Subud - A local
product. - thanks MK
Get a lot of stuff sent my way, more than I have time to deal with.
Thought I'd share this one:
A 240 year
old doll that can write - thanks Jim McIver
2-07-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXX-1 -
winter, 1996
Experiencing life in shards.
- more
in
Saunters
Tech problem solved. Zenbook had had weak, poor wireless reception for
months. It finally lost it. Got a USB wireless adaptor today and why
didn't I do that long ago? - dc
To continue the creation evolution topic of yesterday,
Pat Robertson has a few words for Ken Ham. Here I find myself
applauding one literalist who's opposing another. That's a Salon dot com
link.
Here's one Salon writer's take on the Ham Nye debate where she takes
Nye's side.
Here's a Daily Beast report that poo poos the whole thing.
- thanks again Gregory
2-06-14 - I'm a creationist and an evolutionary. -
more in
dc misc 4
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
part one,
JAPAN
1904–1959
-
Chapter Eight -- Family and Death -1952-1956
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
It's hard not to look when someone's having sex right in front of me.
- more
in
Saunters
Thanks Andrew Main for pointing out the misspelling of
Dr. Ajari's name (see below) and pointing out Ajari is the Japanese for
Acharya, the Sanskrit for religious teacher. - dc
2-05-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
69-01-25 - These
Mt. Yogis referred to are Dr. Ajari, Neville Warwick and students. And
DeRopp and his students want to visit. That's Robert DeRopp who wrote
Drugs and the Mind and who had a community near Genjoji. Ah - Huey
Johnson's name (misspelled) meeting with Yvonne. He was head of the Nature
Conservancy and suggested ZC to George Wheelwright who owned Green Gulch.
Suzuki commenting on Jean Ross as Shuso and women students. They're
talking about adding a 2nd zazen period in the morning. I forgot it was
added that late.
The Last Time Co2 Levels were at 400 parts per Million, Humans didn't
exist - Science Blogs with arguments by others and a place for all
debating and links to more.
People here are so helpful with language study, more than anywhere in
my limited experience. - more
in
Saunters
I don't know what's wrong. Sometimes my Asus Zenbook won't go online.
It does this sometimes but usually the problem goes away. But now I'm
having to upload today's files onto Katrinka's Mac to upload them onto
Sonic's server. Fudge. - dc
2-04-14 -
Andy Ferguson comments on
yesterday's mention of 350.org and him.
Thanks for the donation to 350 and plug
for action. It really isn’t too late, I think. I believe that that radical
palliative measures, including geo-engineering will likely be necessary,
but these must be complemented with the cheapest and correct path which is
to think globally and act locally to the best of our abilities.
- posting in
Climate Change
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXIX-2 -
summer, 1995
One thing I keep coming back to is something an American therapist in
Bangkok said ten years ago. He'd been working with different Asians for
years and he said that at first we notice the differences between each
other but in time what he has learned is that we all are so much the same.
I think of that when I watch little kids, hear babies cry, interact with
adults from various backgrounds.
Mooji said we share the same fundamental with every living being - the
sense of I am.
- posting
in
Saunters
2-03-14 -
One
Drop Zendo in Gemany - Hokuozan Sogenji
Here are some photos from there and a poem from Zsolt Suto
Made a tiny donation today to 350.org and
when it was through it opened up to a page thanking me, giving me the
opportunity to make a comment, with previous comments below. The top one
was Andy Ferguson. Check out
350 - for those with hope that it's not too late and those without hope
who think doing something is good form, a right thing to do - in my case
giving it that good old college drop out try. - dc -
posting in
Climate Change
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
68-12-19 - They're
discussing the future of the building - none of it pans out. Before the
coming year is up they'll be at Page St. and the Japanese American
congregation will later move to a new building. Talk of developing a
school. Comments on this and more by Suzuki. John Sunier Tassajara movie
mentioned. Have sent him a friend request on Facebook.
Don't have any meeting notes from
66-09-17 to this one. Don't know if I accidentally skipped them but doubt
that. I think they just weren't there in the ZC archive room. Or maybe
they were and I missed them. Maybe Yvonne Rand has them. Anyway, I won't
do anything about it. These are enough. Someone else later - after the
world ends can deal with it.
Went to a sort of sports bar this morning arriving before 7am to see
Super Bowl illegally captured from Aussie Satellite.
- more in
Saunters
2-02-14 - Fundraising appeal for Diane Di Prima -
Poetess with Parkinsons - with a letter and a poem from Diane. Cuke
Archives has made several small donations.
Diane Di Prima cuke page -
updated
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXIX-1 -
winter, 1995 - there is no Volume XXVII-2
Swooping little birds and so forth. - more
in
Saunters
2-01-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Issues 12, 13, 14
- (link now goes to index for individual issues)
The art of Andres Amador
- thanks Gregory
Another positive feedback loop increasing co2 in the atmosphere -
Tropical drought -
posted in
Climate Change
We were on the Island of Lembongan a thirty minute speed boat ride
away. - more
in
Saunters
January
1-31-14 - Check out John
Halpern's
Waking Buddha film project "A film about Waking Up. Here's the
Waking Buddha website.
His prior film is
Refuge.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
Note filed with the 1966 meeting notes
Sometimes we hear hindu chanting that's melodic,
sort of haunting. - more
in
Saunters
1-30-14 -
Kyoto Journal - still going. What a
great publication. Thought about it today because Katrinka and I plan to
be in Japan April and May. - DC
Norma Fogelberg writes:
Over the past 10
years, I have chosen a yoga practice that supports my zazen practice, in
terms of body alignment, breath and preparation for the physical ease of
sitting. My yoga teacher of many years, Kate Vogt, studies and teaches
the Mohan's system of yoga, which is grounded in the Yoga Sutras of
Patanjali. This practices gives direct breathing and movement
techniques that I have found very useful in supporting my sitting
practice. I wholeheartedly recommend
the Mohan's 2014 Yoga Study Program. The
SVASTHA WEST COAST
website provides
in-depth information on both the Mohans and the Yoga Study Program.
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
part one,
JAPAN
1904–1959
-
Chapter Seven -- The Occupation -
1945-1952
- with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
More pithy comments
on yesterday's article on the aging brain.
Received this
important bit of news from an old friend in Fort Worth.
Washington
State just passed two laws - legalized gay marriage and legalized
marijuana. Makes perfect biblical sense.
Leviticus
20:13 says: "If a man lies with another man they should be stoned."
---thanks
Susan McDonald
Here's Sanur,
the area where we're living. - posting
in
Saunters
1-29-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXVIII-1 -
summer, 1994
Yes there is a fall 92 Wind Bell. I see I have a PDF of the
cover. Emailed Warren to go back and get it please. - dc
More often than
not I go to the beach, swim and float around for a while then go to our
table and read, write, study. - more
in
Saunters
Farewell
Peter Seeger, one of my early influences.
Discover Magazine
-
Brutal Truths About the Aging Brain - and
here some comments on
the subject by - let's see, what's my moniker? - oh yes, DC.
- and thanks Gregory
1-28-14 -
Sweeping Zen article and discussion of Brian Victoria's articles on DT
Suzuki and the Nazis
Brian Daizen Victoria page on
cuke including DC comment from above discussion.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
66-09-17 - About
buying the Horse Pasture near Tassajara. Thoughts of asking Red Skelton
for a donation. Morley
Baer who does photo workshops at Tassajara has offered photos for
fundraising brochure. Art sale (mislabled exibition) might be at Cody's
(misspelled like many words) in Berkeley. Chet Helms has offered the
Avalon Ballroom. Alan Watts letter on what to call Suzuki and a vote on
the matter. Wonder where that letter went.
Night
market with artistic and sensual Legong dancing. - more
in
Saunters
1-27-14 -
Zen Students remember Alan Chadwick from Alan Chadwick dot com.
DC notes to Greg Haynes
on this post with links to Paul Lee on Alan Chadwick.
D.T. Suzuki, Zen
and the Nazis-part 3
by Brian Daizen Victoria
Brian Daizen Victoria page on
cuke
Usually I'm up in the dark. Six AM gamelan music and calling to prayer
from the nearby mosque. - more
in
Saunters
1-26-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXVII-2 -
fall, 1993
Saput Poleng - the checkered cloth around shrines and trees. A brief
explanation with cool explanation of 2 of the 3 levels of spirituality. At
least I didn't notice the third, the deepest, but that seems appropriate.
- posted in
Saunters
Director of National Inst. of Health on the silly Faith vs Science thing
the media loves. Still he uses the word god as if it stands for an
independent being that does things but that's an ingrained metaphor. -
posted in
Engaged
Buddhism/Current Events
1-25-13 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Issues 9, 10, 11
- (link now goes to index for individual issues)
D.T. Suzuki, Zen and
the Nazis-part 2
intro
by Brian Daizen Victoria, article by Karl Baier
Brian Daizen Victoria page on
cuke
We eat lots of fresh vegetables cooked and in salads.
- more in
Saunters
1-24-14 -
Ko Blix photos of party bidding Ken Knabb's home of 48 years farewell.
See photo with Linda Hess, Liz Horowitz, Ken Knabb, unknown, Mel Weitsman
on page four.
More at Ken Knabb's cuke
page
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
66-09-14 -
Love to read this stuff. They're just talking about buying land near Tassajara. We
forget that until the last minute, the fundraising was for money to buy
the Horse Pasture, 160 acres near Tassajara that had no road leading into
it, no structures, had little flat land, no sizable creek. After we'd
raised the money for the 20k down payment (as I recall) Bob Beck said he
and his wife Anna were prepared to sell Tassajara itself. Richard Baker
let the board know, they approved immediately, and all of a sudden we had
Tassajara and 280k more to come up with, a large payment due in March.
What a bold move. I was a spectator. Good going gang!
When I was here in 92 everything was cooked in coconut oil.
- more in
Saunters
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
part one,
JAPAN
1904–1959
- Chapter Six-- Wartime
- 1940-1945 - with a column for
notes and links to come on the right
I want to get cuke organized so that the above ZC meeting notes in 66
are linked to from the appropriate place in the note section to the right
of the text of Crooked Cucumber. Maybe someone else will do it. - dc
1-23-14 - Cuke's Most Important Thing in the World Award goes to:
One Earth Sangha -
International Dharma Teachers’ Statement on Climate Change
Endorsement Sought by Dharma Teachers and Sangha Members Worldwide
"Climate change is the most serious issue facing humanity today. It is
already seriously impacting economies, ecosystems, and people worldwide.
Left unchecked, it will cause tremendous suffering for all living beings."
I signed it and I hate to sign things or belong to
anything. I'd say the quote above was an understatement. - DC
--- posted in
Climate
Change
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXVII-1 -
spring, 1993 [Don't think there was a XXVI-2 or fall 1992
Wind Bell. Please let me know if there is. - dc]
Fruit. - more in
Saunters
1-22-14 - D.T.
Suzuki, Zen and the Nazis-part 1
by Brian Daizen Victoria
Brian Daizen Victoria page on
cuke
SFZC,
Tassajara in
The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond
Bali Recycling dot com
Inspiring Person: Olivier Pouillon - by Janet Nicol
I read the article in Inspired
Bali
posted in
Saunters
1-21-14 -
2003
Lecture on the
Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo
by Mel Weitsman
on the Berkeley ZC website.
- thanks Elizabeth Sawyer.
Two mistakes I think are the "Jukko" in the title and in the line
"And
if you do something wholesome, unwholesomeness follows." which I assume
should be "wholesomeness follows." - dc
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki -
part one,
JAPAN
1904–1959
- Chapter
Five--Temple
Priest - 1932-35
Found the cover to
Poetry for Crazy Cowboys & Zen Monks [or
this link] by
Michael Hofmann (Illustrator), Raymond Coffin and added it to the
bibliography herein and to the Tom Wright interview
here.
Bob Gordon
plays his uke and tells stories of the rock stars at the Panama Hotel in
San Rafael, CA, on Wednesday Jan. 22nd.
Read about his
show, now called
Bob Gordon & the Ohana Ukelele Band
People tend to have some criticisms of any other culture or place. I guess
what bothers me most here is the trash.
- more in
Saunters
1-20-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
66-08-13 - Amelia Newell's name comes up - interesting.
See page for this on 60s
Communes. Hmm - Suzuki's in Japan and this "Tasugami" might be
Tatsugami who came to Tassajara as a guest teacher in 1969 for three
practice periods. Interesting (to me) talk about taping lectures. This is
about the time I showed up at ZC.
Eric Arnow's Asian Blog
- go check it out - and his cuke page.
Caught the last quarter of the 49ers Seahawk game by accident - sort of
- followed it on blog posts to the exciting finish. Maybe we could have
seen it at a sports bar or hotel somewhere but we didn't even consider
doing that. If I'd had a short wave radio like in 92, we could have
listened to it. The Super Bowl will be easy to see I bet.
- put in
Saunters
1-19-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXVI-1 -
spring, 1992 - great cover - dc
Lee Temple in
Crestone, CO, has a blog centering around Climate Change and
environmental issues. - thanks Paul Shippee - posted in
Climate Change
Rosemary left today. - more in
Saunters
Right hand doesn't know
what the left hand is doing again department
[Received this
email from Tech Support at Sonic after the O Byte Problem was solved (See
top of page where this links to) which took extensive prodding on my part.
- DC
1-18-13 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters
Issues 6, 7, and 8
- (link now goes to index for individual issues)
An application of twelve-step principles - more in
Saunters
1-17-14 - 0 BYTE PROBLEM SOLVED. Now can resume uploading onto cuke.com
and other DC sites on the Sonic.net server (shunryusuzuki.com,
cuke-annex.com, and the sites that
load into it.
Read all about it - if you care.
Temporary What's New and 0 Byte files at zmbm.net closed (It's a site of
mine on another server). - dc
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
66-06-18 - Nothing special to report on this meeting but I love
reading them - the names, the details, foreshadowing of incompatibility
between the two groups, the misspellings.
I realize that there's so much history and
interesting info in cuke that could be better organized and presented.
Will try to get on that with help.
AA meeting last night in Sanur. Dinner afterwards. Good way to meet
interesting people who don't drink. - more in
Saunters
1-16-14 -
SFZC upcoming abbot transitions - from the SFZC Sangha News Weekly
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXV-2 - fall,
1991
Sitting by the beach walk today five Segue like vehicles went by one
way then another, their drivers standing erectly staring straight ahead.
- more in Saunters
Update on 0 Byte Problem
1-15-14 - Thomas Moore's new book, A Religion of One's Own, is
now out and he's doing book signings.
Check it out at his website. He wrote me that there are a few
paragraphs in it from
our exchange last February and David Miller was kind to write that
these paragraphs can be found on pp. 31-32. Maybe I can get an ebook here
in Bali. - dc
Here's a piece he wrote on A Religion of One's Own on
Real Clear Religion.
Cuke.com calls on the forces for good to back a non profit ISP
dedicated to Net Neutrality. Maybe Google, Apple, and Microsoft could help
out.
Court deals blow to Net Neutrality
Why You Should Be Freaking Out About The End Of Net Neutrality
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
66-05-21 - More talk about buying land near Tassajara. They say it
would take three and a half hours to drive there - four at the least back
then - and over a day to walk from Big Sur - nope, I made it in nine
hours. Suzuki asks about where Yasutani can hold a sesshin.
People ask if we're having fun. Yes we're having a good time and I know
what sort of images Bali can bring up. But more than that we're having a
stable time, a more simple, slower pace life, maybe more difficult and
tiring in some ways. The humidity and heat of the tropics. And yes, full
of neat stuff like wonderful people, the beach, the ceremonies, and the
low cost. - this will be posted in
Saunters when the problem is
solved. It's solved
Was only uploading on this page for some days due to weird tech problem
having with ISP Sonic.net:
See
dc misc 4 and
This Page (on another server) for
the most detail. Working on it. This page could disappear in this last
upload. Hope not. - DC
1-14-14 -
One Mind - Edward Burger, the filmmaker who made Amongst White Clouds,
is working on a new documentary about a Ch'an monastery in southern China
which looks excellent. He's currently doing fundraising in order to
complete the film. This site has more information plus a trailer and other
clips. Not many hours to go to reach his fundraising goal.
- thanks Palden McLennan
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXV-1 -
spring, 1991
When I was in Bali in 1992 I had a short wave radio and listened to BBC
in the morning. Followed developments with the Watts Riots. Connectivity
has certainly changed since then. But am still having the same problem
uploading. Hope this page doesn't go blank. It's the only one I'm
uploading. If you want to know more about it, the latest update is on
this page at zmbm.net, a site of
the cuke archives that's not on the Sonic.net server. I tried to load it
on the Sonic server but it turned to 0bytes, a blank page. Read more
there. I love Sonic but so far they're not recognizing that there's a
problem on their end. - dc - this will be posted in
Saunters when the problem is
solved. It's solved
1-13-14 -
Article on film: Brad Warner's Hard Core Zen
- thanks John Steiner
There are so many mentions of Brad on cuke, he needs to have his own
cuke link page but till then just write "brad warner" in the site search
box above. If you just do warner you'll get a lot of Jisho Warner links.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
66-04-02 - 25 to 30 sitting every morning. Up to 70 expected for
sesshin. The sixties is getting into swing. One thousand Wind Bells being
mailed out. First taping of Suzuki lectures runs into problems. The first
one we have in July 26th - but there are still those missing Los Altos
tapes that I feel bad I haven't followed up some leads on. Interesting
first mention of Tassajara. Richard Baker has talked to the owner and
plans to drive down there with "Reverend Suzuki. Rev. Katagiri."
I remember Dan Welch saying that they sat on hard wood at Ryutakuji in
Japan where he went in the early sixties for over a year - Soen Nakagawa's
place. I thought that must impossibly hard but I remembered it through the
years when I had to sit on the floor with no cushion sometimes for long
periods. If in Japan it would be usually on tatami. India I got used to
sitting on hard floors with thin, very thin, cushions. Sort of like
sitting on a hard floor without any cushion. Here I was sitting on our
tile porch floor every morning with no cushion and then when we got yoga
mats used that. Today got a two inch square foam-filled and a kapok-filled
one so now it's back to the cushy sitting. I'd gotten used to nothing but
when I tried them in the store I thought oh that's nice. -
this will be posted in
Saunters when the problem is
solved. It's solved
1-12-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXIV-2 - fall,
1990
Not posting more on cuke till I figure out this tech problem.
See
dc misc 4
Love language and Indonesian seems pretty easy and I am learning some
just to get by but am hesitant to study it cause I have too much work to
do and gotta concentrate on all this material and coming up with a book.
When I was in Germany a few years ago for four months as a guest of
Dharma Sangha, I was intent on getting lots of work done on the Suzuki
Roshi material and cuke archives. Then Baker Roshi gave me a set of Dragon
Naturally Speaking German pro edition and by the time I left I could do it
all. Did some work on the archives etc but got do a lot more than that
here. Still - a tiny bit of Indonesian would be okay. -
posted in
Saunters
Not posting this to Saunters now cause I'm having
trouble with files turning to zero bytes when I try to upload them. Don't
be surprised if this page goes blank for a while. - dc - Problem Solved.
1-11-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Cloud-hidden Friends and Zen
Freethinker Newsletters [that
page not loading - same problem with 0bytes (See
dc misc 4 for
more) - Problem Solved.
Issues
1-5 - (link now goes to index for individual
issues) - was 176 pages. Starts in 1982. You
could receive it free if you submitted something. Letters from Marian
(Derby Wisberg) Mountain, Frances Thompson, Tim Aston, Erick Storlie, Rene
Pittet, Alan Marlow among others. Oh yes - one from Gary Snyder at the
end. Would love to have an Index. Need to separate them at some point but
that was too big a job for now. A number more to go.
Today we went to Taman Nusa
(Garden Islands) - Indonesian Culture Park - posted in
Saunters
1-10-14 - RIP Dianne Aigaki, dear friend who passed away January 6th.
Caring Bridge
page for Dianne. Details here about the January 18th
celebration of Dianne’s extraordinary life on Saturday,
January 18th, at Sausalito Portuguese Hall in Sausalito, CA.
Dianne's blog
Thumbnail
of my friend Diane Aigaki took this of us when I was visiting her in
Dharamsala in 2003.
April 2011
piece on the 2003 Dharamsala with a lot about Dianne
which
begins here.
June 2010 ad on cuke for
Dianne's
The Dream of the Turquoise Bee
slideshow and presentation.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXIV-1 -
spring, 1990
(Misnumbered XXXIV on the front but not the back.) - Good lord - this is
the 4th one out of six that have done that. I think after this they
learned.
Added to the 1995
Tom Wright
interview: Tom assisted with the translation of Shobogenzo Zuimonki
that Shohaku Okumura did years ago and it is still available at the
Sanshinji website.
Thanks to BC for this last tip and for correcting the
spelling of the word "bated." And Okumura which I checked on the Sanshinji
site and found it misspelled there in one place too.
Just about every day...
- more of our exciting schedule in
Saunters
1-09-14 -
Funeral for SFZC Central Abbot Steve Stucky set for 3 pm on Sunday,
February 9 at Green Gulch Farm.
Cuke page for Steve
20 Scientific Reasons to Start Meditating Today
- thanks Ron Browning
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
66-02-26 - Only 85 books missing from the library. Quite a list of
members present to elect the new president whom some would later call the
Steve Jobs of ZC.
Not adding anything beyond yesterday's
Saunters post because it was
corrupted yesterday so here it is again. - dc
[WAS] Having a technical problem. Report on that and cell phone
situation here in
dc misc 4
1-08-14 - Rules
to Live By - by Edward Brown, published in Buddhadharma last fall.
Edward Brown cuke page
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXIII-2 -
fall, 1989 (Misnumbered XXXIII on the front but not the
back.)
Bali Update (a good local news source put out by
Bali Discovery Tours) says Aussie
gov upped travel warning due to six suspected terrorists killed by police
in Java on New Years Eve and day.
Read
about all their scary warnings. -
posted in
Saunters
1-07-14 -
Steve Stucky Cremation
yesterday - from Elizabeth Sawyer
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
65-12-18 - Love
the budget figures being discussed. And here's an early mention of Zen
Macrobiotics: "Rev. Katagiri brought up the inadvisability of the
so-called Zen diet which has nothing to do with Zen. Members of meeting
agreed but did not come to a decision on how to handle the matter." Notice
that Gordon Geist is at the meeting. More on him later.
Emminent Buddhist scholar Dr. Edward Conze audio sent by his student
Rick Levine has been worked on with noise reduction by Charlie Wilson.
Much more clear now. Find them on
Rick's cuke page.
The Meaning of
Life - a favorite song - thanks Joyce Pointe.
Just checked up on something I've repeated since being here in 92 -
that Bali is about the same size as Marin County where Katrinka and I were
just living. Since I am used to discovering that things I've been
repeating for decades turn out not to be true, I looked it up. It's not
true.
more in
Saunters
1-06-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXIII-1 -
spring, 1989 (Misnumbered XXXII on the front but not the
back.)
Off to Kecak (pronounced kechak) this evening.
--- Back from Kecak.
more in
Saunters
1-05-14 -
San Francisco Chronicle
obituary for Steve Stucky
- thanks Steve Tipton
Opps - fixed this link. Connection so
bad last night couldn't check links. Some pages didn't upload.
Cuke page for Steve
A Witness to History
by Gregory Johnson
I thought the trash on the beach and in the water at Kuta was from New
Years' Eve. - more on
this in
Saunters
1-04-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
65-08-21 - Richard Gove is Rob Gove unless his name was Richard. The
Toni Hansen is Toni Johansen. Still talking about buying a building.
We frequently walk several hours in a day. Katrinka is a fanatic
walker. She's like my trainer and is hard to keep up with at times. Took
the bus to Kuta Beach today to do some body surfing. Arrived at the south
end and both beach and water were full of trash from New Years. Walked way
north and there was much less. Walked forever looking for a bus stop to
get back. When we finally found one no place to cross the busy street for
a mile or so. Finally made it. Forgot about pedestrians in the planning
there. -
posted in
Saunters
In this, the official cuke Year of
Climate Change Denial, let it be noted that we walk
without resistance into the oven, stoking the fires on our way in.
1-03-14 -
Steve Stucky
Death Poem
Cuke page for Steve
Greg Haynes has created a remarkable site for
Alan Chadwick, the
charismatic gardener who started the garden at Green Gulch Farm. It was
featured last year but there's a lot more there now. If you want to see
what's on cuke about Alan, use the site search box above - put his name in
quotes so it won't get every instance of my last name. - DC
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXII-2 - fall,
1988
Don't waste your time not believing in things that can't be
comprehended. - Kabumpkan
One of the big problems here in Bali is knowing when to change from
Selamat pagi (good morning) to siang (mid-day) to sore (late afternoon) to
malam (evening). They're used all the time and I notice some people change
at different times from one to another. They do seem to enjoy exchanging
these greetings and they are, among some other phrases, much more
helpful than an English "No thank you," in dissolving tension when walking
by people who offer "Transport?" "Shopping?" Massage?" -
posted in
Saunters
One positive result of Climate Change is to disproove that old adage,
"Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it." Ha
ha! Showed them! - posted in
Climate Change
1-02-14 -
In Memoriam Steve Stucky - from the SFZC
Subtle
Eye - the Great Leap
Facebook
Page for Steve.
Cuke page for Steve
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
65-07-03 - A
professor from Japan to speak on Zen and science.
Thinking about the above, contrary to media assumptions, as I see it
there is not only no conflict between Zen and science, there is no
possible conflict between religion and science. - more in
dc misc 4
Maybe we should make 2014 the year of Climate Change Denial. Need a
motto. How about: Climate Change? Borrrrrrrrring!
- posted in
Climate Change species threat
Days of rain. After sitting at computer for hours and hours walked
kilometers down the beach then back to the nigh market. Dinner of
shishkabob, papaya and mango drinks for less than four bucks for us both.
There's no story here. Eat, work, yoga, sleep, sit, walk, live on the
cheap. -
posted in
Saunters
1-01-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Wind Bells - - -
Volume XXII-1 -
spring, 1988
A very Happy New Year. We had a pretty gourmet dinner at a nearby fancy
restaurant. More
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