Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and
Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki - Putting up each of the entries from this
book one at a time.
Anecdote Index.
2013 Scans - Almost daily
from mid April posting one or more scans of material from the Crooked
Cucumber Archives and other backlog -
to post, work with, and present in other form on
cuke later from anywhere. Much great Suzuki material and other. Won't sort
out what's what thoroughly till next year. Thanks Warren Lynn.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
added in 2014
This column last updated 11-12-14
November
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
- 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).
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.
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
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
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.
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
11-06-14
-
An email with
memories of Phillip Wilson
click on photo to go to page with more photos of Phil and
Shunryu
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from
cuke photo page
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
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
11-01-14 - Chart -
Shunryu Suzuki
Lecture Transcript Categories and Info - Nov. 1, 2014 - by
DC
posted in
Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
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.
10-31-14 - 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
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
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
10-28-14
-
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
10-27-14 Narcissus Robert Quagliata's talk at the SFZC City Center this October 22nd.
- thanks M Katz
Narcissus Quagliata cuke page
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
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
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.
10-22-14 -
Barbara Wenger sent a photo of Mitsu Suzuki, Shunryu's widow, a color photo of Mitsu with
balloons at Green Gulch. Click on the
thumbnail to enlarge or just go to
Mitsu's cuke page. She sent another one two that I can see in my
computer but not online. Both photos posted or trying to post on
Mitsu's cuke page.
There are a few tickets left for the Nov. 5 Greens dinner and
event in San Francisco
celebrating twenty years of Community Grows founded by Barbara.
Explore Community Grows
posted in
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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
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
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.
10-18-14 -
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
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
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
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
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.
10-13-14
- 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
10-12-14 -
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.
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
10-09-14 -
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
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
10-07-14
- 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
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
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
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
Kazuaki Tanahashi answers question about character Shunryu Suzuki used
after his name in
calligraphy for Beginner's Mind posted yesterday.
叟
(pronounced "sō" meaning "Old Man."
Thanks Kaz - DC
Kazuaki Tanahashi cuke page
10-02-14
- Today's image is Shunryu Suzuki's calligraphy for Beginner's Mind that
was scanned from a first edition of Zen Mind,
Beginner's Mind.
click on thumbnail to see
it large and read more.
Going through what transcripts we have and making a chart.
Gordon Geist in Norway did a bunch of light edits of verbatim Shunryu
Suzuki lectures including all of the lectures that comprised Not Always
So, a collection of Suzuki's lectures edited by Edward Brown. Gordon
translated it into Norwegian as he did ZMBM. He did all that years ago. I
noticed in the chart that there were two (now four) Suzuki lectures that were part of
Not Always So that didn't have light edits by Gordon so I emailed him and
he sent them. I forwarded them to Peter Ford who operates
shunryusuzuki.com these days
and he included them there. So here's the first one:
69-03-09
- Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha -
the light edit
A page for that
lecture with links to other versions and audio.
--- posting on
cuke's Shunryu
Suzuki lecture page which is a big mess but there are lots of cool
links on it for enthusiasts. But it's not organized and much more complete
like
shunryusuzuki.com
September
9-30-14
- Click to enlarge today's
photo of Shunryu Suzuki in monk's begging gear taken in Japan at his
temple Rinsoin. Not from the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive with notes though there is probably the same photo there. One
of four from Richard Baker scanned in Crestone, Colorado.
Thinking
of the following quote from Hamlet: ‘There are more things in
Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Got it
from
Falling Through the Ice: The Path of a Zen Methodist by John Hiestand
whose mom and sis sat with Shunryu Suzuki in Los Alto. More on that book
tomorrow.
9-29-14
- 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
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.
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
9-26-14
- Click to enlarge today's photo - SRC0151
in the Shunryu Suzuki
photo archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
9-24-14
- Donn Deangelo's Montage of
his Shunryu Suzuki photo with the Heart Sutra
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
9-20-14
- 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
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.
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
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Click
to enlarge today's photo - SR0175 in the
Shunryu Suzuki photo
archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
9-17-14
-
Click to enlarge today's photo - SR0151 in
the Shunryu Suzuki
photo archive - with notes.
(cuke photos
page)
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
8-28-14 - A number of times I heard Shunryu Suzuki say that everyone is
doing their best. - posted in
DC
Brief Memories
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
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
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
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.
8-16-14 - 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.
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 to
dchad[at]cuke[dot]com.
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
8-13-14 - 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.
8-11-14 - Jeff Broadbent will be speaking at SFZC Page Street
Tuesday 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
8-10-14 - 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
8-07-14 -
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
8-06-14 - Alan Marlowe's Great Moment
- a Tassajara Story
8-05-14 - 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
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
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
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
8-01-14 -
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
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
7-29-14 -
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
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.
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.
7-24-14 - 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
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
7-20-14 -
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
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
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
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
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
7-12-14 -
Some DC scribbled Japan notes
1994 doing research for Crooked Cucumber - in
Group I
of
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
Today starting Group I
with Note from Huston Smith
to DC - undated (around 2008)
in
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
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
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.
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
June
6-30-14 - More from Rick Levine
on Lloyd Reynolds
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
Jeff Broadbent cuke page
6-26-14 - 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
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
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
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.
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].
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
May
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
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 - 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
5-27-14 -
Interview with Daigan David Lueck
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.
5-21-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. -
Wind Bells,
publication of the SFZC
Not a Wind Bell, but the
Tassajara 25 Year Anniversary Book
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
5-19-14 -
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
Linked to the Sasaki
Archives where, I just learned, they excerpted from and linked to
my piece on Joshu
Sasaki entered last August.
5-18-14 - 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 -
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.
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.
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
5-06-14
- Mitsu Suzuki turned 100 this April 26th and forgot to post a
happy birthday greeting to her here. Maybe forgot because had posted about
her and that upcoming event earlier in the month when Katrinka and I
visited with her. So today went back and put that happy birthday greeting
in on 4-26-14. Also added this greeting to the
Mitsu Suzuki page. In
this way the past changes.
Was reminded of this because Layal Bockhorst Smith mentioned it
in an email. Layla has a sitting group in Corte Madera, CA,
Mountain Root Sangha - and in
Montana. Montana Zen
Meditation Center.
Any Buddhist or Buddhist fellow traveler in Missoula out there? Please
contact us.
You might not notice this link on the Mountain Root Sangha page to
mountains
walking.
Layla Smith
(Bockhorst) page
5-03-14 - 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.
5-02-14 -
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.
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
4-29-14 - 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, True Zen,
is from Wind Bell volume 1, issue 2.
4-27-14 - DC introduction
to the Japanese translation of Zen Is Right Here.
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Ananda Claude Dalenberg's
Newsletters
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.
4-26-14 -
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.
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
4-25-14 -
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group
Sokoji, Soto Zen
Mission items from San Francisco Public
Library archives
Sokoji page
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
2013 Scans from Cuke Archives
- Early ZC board and
biz meeting notes with DC comments
4-19-14 - 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
4-18-14 - 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.
4-16-14 -
Miriam Bobkoff's blog of
years is coming to and end.
Letter from
Miriam about going to Sokoji in 1965.
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
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
2013 Scans from Cuke
Archives. - H Group - Rosa Gustaitus LA Times West Magazine March 9, 1969
article on
Tassajara
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.
4-11-14 - Daya Goldschlag (dc 1st ex)
writes about
Mitsu Suzuki after reading posts on DC visit with her in
Saunters.
4-10-14 -
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
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
4-07-14 - 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
cuke.com
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