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January 2010

1-20-10 - Pardon the absence. Been focused on projects Shunryu and music related. The results will trickle in in time. But here are four items. -dc

Thanks to Gary Snyder for sending the following added to the Brian Victoria Page.

Kemmyo SATO  and Tom Kirchner on  D.T. Suzuki & War. — a resounding response to Brian Victoria's attacks.

Hoitsu Suzuki is godo, head teacher, at Eiheiji since last November. Amazing. Congrats.

Farewell George Leonard.

Esalen obit

NY Times obit

Lost Generation - a brief, brilliant statement with a palindrome touch, - thanks Gregory Johnson

1-08-10 - Art Exhibit of David Silva's photography at the SFZC City Center, 300 Page St. in SF tonight. A talk by Diane Renshaw: California Chaparral—A Fire-adapted Ecosystem: Friday, January 8, in conjunction with the reception.
 

Hi. I've been busy working on several projects and visiting Crestone Mt. ZC and mother and friends in Fort Worth. Not much time for cuke these days but there will be more to come. For now - Happy New Year. - dc

WHAT WAS NEW before that 

Out of Afghan! - a new cuke department

shunryusuzuki.com - the archive comes to you

Suzuki Roshi dot SFZC dot org:  - little by little Suzuki Roshi's lectures are being added to this site with photos and other supporting material. They're doing a good job, well presented.

 I was at Johanneshof September 3 through December 10th. What a beautiful hamlet we're in: Grossherishwand. Wonderful people here both inside and out. - dc

to cuke.com etc and help keep DC afloat with PayPal. Or, to mail a tax deductible donation. Thanks gassho metta - dc

Get a hit from Nisargadatta

Check out the book, To Find the Girl from Perth at girlfromperth.com - a little project I've been doing in my spare time, the bulk of it done back in 2005 and 6. The CD of Songs for To Find the Girl from Perth is now available here, soon in more ways. Buy these and in one tiny way help to support shunryusuzuki.com and so forth. - dc

Shambhala has brought John Tarrant's Bring me Rhinoceros back out

Look at Tarrant Works

and his Zenosauras blog

Check out Tarrant's books on cuke.

and PZI (Pacific Zen Inst)

WHAT WAS NEW before that 
One of the best ways to check out this site
  [And before that - prior years] Also, try ABC Table of Contents

 

Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki

Books by David Chadwick

Books by other ZC related writers in bibliography


Remembering the Dragon: Recollections of Suzuki Roshi by his Students. Gil Fronsdal, editor. Published in 2004 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Includes many photos. . $10 paper. order only from  SFZC Bookstore
order them all from SFZC Bookstore

A message from our worthy friends at the Chapel Hill ZC, the only Soto Zen temple of Suzuki Roshi’s lineage in the southeastern United States.

Go to shunryusuzuki.com and get back to me if you're interested.

Creative Commons License Shunryu Suzuki Dharma Talks are  licensed by the SFZC under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Books by Dainin Katagiri -  compilations of his lectures

Cafe Press Cuke Basket
the outlet for tee shirts and stuff from cuke.com
 Buddhism & Nothings Shop and more
Read more about it on this site  or just go to the Cafe Press Cuke Basket
 

Find the Girl from Perth tee shirts and stuff


You are in the power of the divine munificent energy which bids you to fetch an envelope, place in it your generous donations of $1 or more and send to
David Chadwick, PO Box 2543, Sebastopol, CA 95473
for tax deduct and more info on all that

Lew Richmond released a new music CD in January, Songs of Lazarus. See more on Lew Richmond - interview, links.

featured in cuke music section

 

DVDs are now available of "A ZEN LIFE - D.T.  Suzuki," a 77-minute documentary about Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966). Read more about it and how to get the DVD in the new cuke Film Section

 

 

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When in Colorado visit this Zen Boulder Colorado Bed and Breakfast - the Briar Rose Bed and Breakfast. It's beautiful, has a scrumptious breakfast, run by students of Zentatsu Baker Roshi, and has a zendo. It's across the street from Naropa University

Beltane Flowers
 

 

 

Kyoto Art and Antiques  Tell 'em cuke sent you. - dc

 

Check out the 2009 calendar prints and tee shirts and more in the Cuke Basket, a print on demand store in Cafe Press. Cuke profit no more than $3 on any item, $1 on calendars. Buy one such as the Shunryu Suzuki New Year's card calendar print to the left and copy it cheaper at a copy shop (but on quality stock) and use it for a holiday gift for Buddhists, Orientophiles, calligraphers, bird-lovers, that special someone, etc. To see this card a little better, go to its page in the Cuke Basket and hit View Larger.

Need tech support? Try David Cohen, Tech God at Tech Light
who helps cuke.com out a lot. Thanks - DC

Check out Andy Ferguson's
South Mountain China tours         More on cuke on Andy
with it's fantastic videos of China and Chinese Zen

To see what was added to this site in earlier months and years, go to  What Was New:  1999, 2000-2001,  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, what's new this year

There's a lot of old material that's as good as new if you haven't read it. -DC
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