Somethings from Others

Others Write or Draw or Contribute or interviewed

Also see articles/excerpts and interviews and Readers' Comments and all over cuke.com

4-21-13 - Brad Warner compares Shobogenzos

3-31-13 - REV. STEPHEN W. FROST Ph.D. Easter Message 2013

1-23-13 - The Spiritual Message of Evolution - Steve McIntosh - thanks Lor

10-29-12 - Father Steve Frost with a poem, De Deum, and a diagnosis - Paean's Song.

10-18-12 - Sweden as a Monastery by Rick Wicks

10-27-12 - Posted A Simple Sense of Delight and created Mt. Root Sangha Readings

10-14-12 - The Diggers Archive with a photo gallery featuring the photography of Chuck Gould.

10-01-12 - Translator interview on Translating the words of Buddha site. - thanks Howie

8-07-12 - Quotes sent by JW

In Book XI, of Milton’s Paradise Lost Adam is about to be cast out of Paradise, and discusses life and death with the angel Michael, since Adam knows nothing about mortality. Around lines 525-555, Adam asks Michael if there is a way to avoid suffering:

There is, said Michael, if thou well observe
The rule of not too much…
Nor love thy Life nor hate; but what thou liv’st
Live well, how long or short permit to Heav’n.

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The Roman poet Martial in his tenth Epigram wrote about the things that bring a happy life:

"The need to be yourself
Neither dreading nor desiring thy last hour"

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"Do not ask what tomorrow will bring; However many days fate allows count them all as profit." - Horace in his "Soracte" Ode (I, ix)

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"Why, indeed, is it necessary to summon trouble, – which must be endured soon enough when it has once arrived, or to anticipate trouble and ruin the present through fear of the future? It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time." - Seneca:

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"One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca:

8-05-12 - Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship? - Bob Fuller (whom I remember from the Baker days at the SFZC) - thanks John Steiner

8-03-12 - Erik Davis wrote a two part article on RICK GRIFFIN, SUPERSTAR - "an appreciation of the esoteric and religious themes in the work of California's great psychedelic poster/underground comix/surfer illustration artist, who turned to Christ in 1970, during the first flush of the Jesus Freaks." - in HiloBrow.

7-26-12 - Wendell E. Berry Lecture “It All Turns On Affection”

Article on Berry and this talk from Inside Higher Ed with links to talk and longer essay at the end. - thanks Gregory

7-2-12 - Loring Palmer on The Conquest of Peru - his recent inspiring trip and trips there

6-15-12 - Who Is Meditating? - original teaching of Buddha on how to meditate

5-18-12 - Paul Shippee - Ten Tips For Compassionate Communication

4-10-12 - Waking Up and Falling Asleep - by Mark Foote

4-08-12 - Hsuan Hua's talk on Buddha's life.

4-07-12 - A talk given by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche at the City Center of the SFZC on May 27, 1971. - thanks Joe Galewsky

4-06-12 - Good Friday to you - death of the ego day. Here's Father Steve Frost's offering for the day: the Berkeley Core: FORAYS INTO THE PSYCHE OF BEING

4-03-12 - 2012 Matsuoka Roshi Archive Project

Before Shunryu Suzuki and all the Soto Zen priests who came to America whose names we know, there was Soyu Matsuoka. - dc

3-05-12 - A Gangaji rap on who we are with mountains and music accompanying.

1-25-12 -

THE HEALING NEEDED IN OUR WORLD:

PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BUDDHIST MEDITATION, NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION, ECO-PSYCHOLOGY, AND PATHS TO A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS

Paul Shippee

1-23-12 - Father Steve Frost's Clear Light Missiles blog.

Steve separated his FALL SERIES blog posts into their own blog with the great name of the Clear Light Missiles Blog since, he says, they are hopefully the final statement summing up his whole 40 year NEPSIS project that Lew Lancaster put on line at UCB. Its a new layout for his theological/philosophical statement with paintings.

University of California, Berkeley site: Nepsis

Art and Poetry Nepsis site under development

9-27-11 - Father Steve Frost with The Light and the Lonely - a painting and a poem

9-26-11 - The Scorpion by Chris Boys

9-05-11 - Interview with Peter Levitt - here is the link to a 16 minute conversation that was broadcast yesterday AM on CBC radio in Canada re Dogen, Shobogenzo, etc.

8-16-11 - Tozen Akiyama Roshi dharma talk on New Year

7-31-11 - The Tooth by Chris Boys

7-30-11 -

Gudo Nishijima's blog

His Dogen Sangha website

Link to Articles on that website

Buddhism and Action - a translation of three talks Nishijima Roshi gave on NHK in Japan in 1994 - suggested by AA.

6-08-11 - The Vision in Prison by Chris Boys

4-29-11 - NHNE's "Big Mind" Resource Page from Bro Lor

4-27-11What would Lady Gaga appear like if she evolved into a spiritual teacher on a magic, enlightened island. Maybe she'd be Candice O'Denver. Click on this link for virtual heaven on earth. Enjoy. Lor

4-22-11 - A Love Letter by Nanao Sakaki

Joan Amaral sent this on July 22, 2009

The last two opening quotes from Phillip Alder's bridge column:

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy.- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. - Robert Heinlein

The Law of Thumb says, "Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world."

3-22-11 - A message from an American in Sendai, hardest hit by the earthquakes

3-21-11 - Three Mid East Tales by Tom Harriman - Tom sent me these short accounts not long ago and he gave me permission to share them here. He's a lawyer, travel consultant, and cousin of Fred Harriman who helped me so much with translation and advice on things Japanese in doing Crooked Cucumber and since. - dc

12-09-10 - South Mountain China Zen Tours 2010 Report by fearless tour leader Andy Ferguson

10-24-09 - Mooji - the latest greatest Advaita Vedanta guru. I'm a sucker for this stuff. - dc

6-04-09 - Here is a collection of Youtube links featuring Adyashanti [thanks to Joe Veit]

3-20-09 - Two talks with Ken McCloud and Red Pine. Thanks Cheryl.

02-19-09 - Chinese Chan Master Sheng Yen has departed this floating world. A report from Andrew Main.

2-05-09 - Gloria Levine writes about Harambee Arts

I am writing to you from Nairobi, Kenya where I've been living and working as a Fulbright scholar since the beginning of September 2008. As part of my fellowship, I am fulfilling the mission of Harambee Arts, by hiring and training talented young artists to work with troubled children in slum areas, hospitals, schools and orphanages. To date, we have started “art clubs” in four slum schools and the “presidents” of the clubs are chosen from the “special needs children”, those with autism, downs syndrome and other neurological problems.

We also continue to lead a weekly art group for 30 HIV+ women at Langata Women’s Prison in Nairobi. The head warden said, “For the first time, the prisoners are eager to be tested for HIV so that they will be eligible to attend the Harambee Arts support group.” Most recently we led a workshop for grandmothers who are raising up to 20 orphans each, in a South African township. They had never painted before and the results were spectacular.

Five artists have been hired…two in Zimbabwe and three in Kenya, and more than 2,000 children have participated in our programs. Since the inception of Harambee Arts in fall 2007, more than 400 psychologists, teachers and social workers have been trained in our methodology of non-directive, child centered expressive arts.

Your continued support of our work in Sub-saharan Africa is greatly needed. Donations enable the Harambee Arts staff to continue our work with children and women who have been traumatized by the AIDS pandemic, civil wars, famine and displacement; and train others. Art supplies will be purchased! Capable youth will be given jobs! More trainings will be offered! Please see the photos below to view the beautiful recipients of our services.

For more information about Harambee Arts you can visit: www.harambeearts.org. It is easy to make a tax-deductible and secure financial donation by visiting our Donation Page at www.harambeearts.org/donate.html (and click on the "Donate" button) or send a check by filling out the attached Donation Form (.pdf).

Harambee Arts

12-04-08 - A Seasonal Letter --- from Brother David Steindl-Rast

8-02-08 - After the fire photos from Tassajara by Gene DeSmidt - and a poem.

6-04-08 - Check out Clark Strand on bridging Buddhism and the Bible and on the World Wisdom site and here's an article by him on meditation with gurus.

5-14-08 - Congratulations to Barbara Wenger, honored recently as founder of Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks Group. Thanks Lane Olson for the tip. And I saw Barbara right afterwards in her own home and she didn't even mention it. I was there meeting with her hubby, Michael Wenger, about the Shunryu Suzuki lecture archive.

I encouraged Michael to send more jpgs of his whimsical yet profound art which I'm including now in the new Art-Art department of Cuke-the arts. Next we'll have to get some of Barbara's photos. There are a bunch in cuke but who knows where.

That reminds me - to order Barbara Wenger's slide slow with 650 photos of Tassajara Alumni click the PDF file.

Here's the sort of thing Barbara has done: the City Center neighborhood the Peace Wall

- thanks Wengers - dc

5-01-08 - Steve Tipton has a new book out: Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life. Go to Steve Tipton books for more this book and others including one from the Crooked Cucumber bio.

4-30-08 - Brad Warner of Hardcore Zen fame interviews Nina Hartley for Suicide Girls. Here's Nina's website. Those who were around the SFZC and Berkeley ZC twenty five years ago or more might remember her as a funny, bright, cute pig-tailed kid with horn-rimmed glasses with a pre-stage name. - thanks Lor

4-29-08 - Barbara Wenger sent three photos of Soen, Watts, and Snyder with queries about them.

4-25-08 - Two photos from Tassajara from Gene DeSmidt on his own page on cuke.

4-21-08 - Read For Your Benefit by Ross Bolleter and see the update on what's happening with his great music.

4-18-08 - What is the Ryaku Fusatsu by Nonin Chowaney

4-08-08 - When I first came to the SFZC back in '66, Daniel Eggink was still around. He had a shaved head (the first to do so) was one of the fascinating characters around that scene. Through the years I'd hear about him. Reuven Benyuhmin's interview starts off with telling how Daniel sent him to study with Suzuki. Here's his website's bio page - from there one can explore.

Just got this email from Daniel

Hello brother David,
Here is link for inspiration
with love in Christ
brother egg

And do check out that inspirational link. - dc

3-27-08 - Kathy Cook writes Incantation for People Tending the Watershed

2-29-08 - The Role and Significance of Korean Son in the Study of East Asian Buddhism by Lew Lancaster - just throwing in an article by Lew to add to his interview and other links.

2-23-08 - Ross Bolleter is a Zen teacher and musician who lives in Perth Australia. He's also the latest addition to the cuke music page.

2-06-08 - Zen and the Art of Poetry: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield

1-25-08 - On or By Barton Stone - like poems

Full Moon Poetry by Katrinka McKay

12-29-07 - Some holiday and new years greetings

12-19-07 - Jeff Broadbent on Climate Change

12-14-07 Andrew Main sends Confucian greetings

12-09-07 - Dan Welch Art

12-08-07 - Brother David's Season's Greetings

Tony Patchell pre Zen stories

The Tassajara Subculture by Clay Chadwick