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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

 


Welcome to Year One of the Climate Revolution

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

 

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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


Ocean Heat Drives Surge to Global Warming Record - Truthdig from Climate News Network - posted in Climate Change


 

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 -

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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.

 

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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

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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


Comrades Of The Quest: An Oral History Of Reed - Reed College Bookstore link
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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 marijuanaOn 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


balloons11-17-14 - 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

World Organisation Against Torture

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


Science Panel’s Urgent Warning to Tackle Climate Change - but not as urgent as it would be if they'd included findings since March 15, 2013 - posted in Climate Change


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 Buddhism/Current Events


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


balloonsHappy 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 Ads and Announcements and  Engaged 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


balloonsHappy 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 Ads and Announcements


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


balloonsHappy 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.

(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.

 

 


Zen in America filming and ongoing fundraising needs – UPDATE


 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 cuke photos page

 


Long letter from Marian Derby Wisberg to DC August 5, 2008 
- in Group I  of 2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Marian Derby Wisberg cuke page

 


 

 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.

At UCB: The Center for Buddhist Studies Announces the Winners of the 2014 Toshihide Numata Book Prize - and Experimental Buddhism is a winner!

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

Paul Krugman: Saving the Planet ‘Might Be Free’ - NYT & Truth Dig

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


 

balloonsHappy 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


Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world - thanks Jim McGiver - posted in Misc


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


balloons 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?

Is Japan Developing a Nuclear Weapons Program?

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 - 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.

- presented in this index of PDF links.

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 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.

- presented in this index of PDF links.

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 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.

- presented in this index of PDF links.

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 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.

- presented in this index of PDF links.

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


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 and which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today 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 2013 Scans


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


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 and which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring # 30 of 109:

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.)

From Cuke Archives 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 - 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 and which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring # 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

From Cuke Archives 2013 Scans


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.


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 and which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring # 28 of 109:

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.


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 and which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring # 27 of 109:

Blue Cliff Records-75 - from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 8

From Cuke Archives 2013 Scans


6-22-14 - 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 and which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring # 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 - 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 and which includes a link to the Wind Bell. Today featuring # 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 - 2013 Scans from Cuke Archives - 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 - 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 # 24 of 109:

Blue Cliff Records-51 is from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 5

From Cuke Archives 2013 Scans


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


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 # 23 of 109:

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

 


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 # 22 of 109:

Blue Cliff Records-52, Joshu's Donkeys Cross, Horses Cross is from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 3

From Cuke Archives 2013 Scans


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 - 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 21st entry out of 109:

Blue Cliff Records-49 is from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 2

From Cuke Archives 2013 Scans


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 - 2013 Scans from Cuke Archives - Ananda Claude Dalenberg's  Newsletters

Cloud Hidden Friends Issue 7 - 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.


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 20th entry out of 109:

Blue Cliff Records-46 is from the 1964 Wind Bell volume 3, issue 1.

From Cuke Archives 2013 Scans


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.


Rising CO2 poses significant threat to human nutrition - Harvard Gazette - Posted in Climate Change though it's just about the effect of CO2 levels.


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 - 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. 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 - 2013 Scans from Cuke 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. - 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 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 - 2013 Scans from Cuke 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 - 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 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


balloons5-06-14 - 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


balloons4-26-14 - 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


balloonsHappy 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


Rankin & Dub Ainu Band "You can't see it, and you can't smell it either"

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  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


Climate impacts 'overwhelming' - UN - posted on Climate Change


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]


Meditation cushions & bells fundraiser for Orchids & Bones Zendo in Minneapolis, Minn.


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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