Short Writings by DC
on this site
- articles, reports, stories, rants, a whole section of new Japan stories. Of course there's DC wordy doodlings all over the site.
DC Misc - lots of random scribblings over the years. This goes to DC Misc 4 with links to the previous.
DC on Shunryu Suzuki and So Forth
Fred Kimball, Psychic Friend - a four part article - posted March 2014
Ahdel - my mother's last months - 2013 January - March
Since 2016, a lot of non-Zen material now is on Cuke-Annex with sall bits in Cuke nonZense Blog,
11-01-18 - Rejected
7-06-17 - Leftovers
7-1-17 - DC Misc 5
6-27-17 - Shunryu Suzuki and the Beats
1-07-16 - Another World
11-28-15 - One and Another Incarcerated (blog link) - a Story with a Dragon (link to it here on cuke)
8-08-15 - On Alan Watts
8-10-14 - Fifty Billion Dollars - a very short story
Feb - March 2014 - On the Floor of Greens - 1
2-17-14 - A Train of Memories
2-11-14 - Our Great Friend and Teacher Kobun Chino
March 2013 Southwest Texas Trip
2-19-13 - Four Questions from Thomas Moore Evaded by DC
2-18-12 - Remembering Ananda Claude Dalenberg, Buddhist pioneer, humanist, our friend and dharma brother who died four years ago today,
4-14-11 - A History of Fire at Tassajara
10-10-10 - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind at 40 - An afterword to the 40th anniversary issue of ZMBM (with a link to an annotated version)
***5-07-09 - An article on Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - ZMBM at Thirty-eight and Counting
***4-23-11 - TASSAJARA AND SUZUKI IN THE TIME OF THE SANDOKAI TALKS
*** Japan Stories [4 old and 3 new so far]
*** 6/14/04 - Memories of Bishop Togen Sumi
*** 6/12/04 - Memories of Maezumi Roshi
*** 6/28/04 - The Twelve Days of England
*** 5/12/02 - Psychoactivism - a chapter by DC in Zig Zag Zen; Buddhism and Psychedelics - unabridged version of this chapter.
*** 11/06/02 - An article on Elsie Mitchell, founder of the Cambridge Buddhist Association.
*** 4/23/02 - A Profile of the San Francisco Zen Center - unabridged version of an article by DC for the April 2002 Shambhala Sun.
*** 7/23/99 - Jean E. Ross--Surpassing the Clouds - an article on one of Suzuki-roshi's earliest and strongest students, a real Buddhist trailblazer.
*** 3-21-07 - El Darko Meets Rosebush with a Cast of Sixteen Thousand Spacey Characters - a chapter from Roundabout Zen: Recollections in Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Zentatsu Baker Roshi
*** 5/23/04 - Intoxication and Practice - an unedited version of a piece published in the summer 2004 issue of Buddhadharma.
Other Nonzense
Freedom Songs - my Journey through 1964
*** 2-17-12 - Breaking a Fifty Year Old Vow
Summer 2011 - Real Cream in Rio - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Winter-spring 2011 - India Trip Notes - 2011
*** 3-11-08 - Kelly Lives! - emails between Daya Goldschag and me about how our son Kelly almost died soon after he was born.
*** 7/30/04 - In Defense of Bush - in Current Events (satire)
*** 7/23/04 - Skits n Skates, July Vacation Report
*** 5/31/04 - Happy Memorial Day
*** 5/13/04 - Panhandling with Lola, an account of parent assisted homework with the homeless and a canine attendant.
*** 5/10/04 - Reflections on the Horrible Photos from Iraq in diversions/current events.
*** 4/07/04 - Interview with the Author
*** 4/05/04 - A Taste of Persimmon: a weekend with Da, mainly his photos and devotees (experiences at the community of the man now called Avatar Adi Da Samraj) This is a most popular piece
*** 4/05/03 - Saint Stupid's Day Parade
8-09-12 - Buddhadharma magazine this month features Forum: San Francisco Zen Center at Fifty with Steve Stücky, Blanche Hartman, Norman Fischer, and Mary Morgan and an introduction by yours truly, DC.
Here's the intro on cuke.