Episodes
4 days ago
DC on Visiting
4 days ago
4 days ago
On keeping in touch with those who are ill or isolated. Visiting my monk friend. Visiting a Japanese neighbor now in a convalescent clinic, a touching experience. Visiting Katrinka on the way home and sharing her birthday cake. Chatting with ChaptGPT.
Saturday Nov 09, 2024
A Memorial Podcast for Gene DeSmidt
Saturday Nov 09, 2024
Saturday Nov 09, 2024
Gene DeSmidt was a dear friend of mine and the SF Zen Center who died on October 30th. Gene was a creative builder who left behind a number of sound structures at Tassajara and Green Gulch. He was also a musician who helped me muchly in that realm. He was a great character and a humorous, generous, good-hearted person. Learn more at cuke.com/others/GDS.html and gofundme.com/f/gene-desmidt-needs-your-help. - dc
Saturday Nov 02, 2024
Don't Worry (Excessively)
Saturday Nov 02, 2024
Saturday Nov 02, 2024
DC riffs on not worrying excessively about undocumented immigrants and the ongoing election.
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
With Guest Susan Ross
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Susan Ross is an illustrator and artist who worked on Be Here Now. In this podcast she takes us from her native Ohio to Smith College to Woodstock to New Mexico, to Shunryu Suzuki's funeral with Gary Snyder and David Padwa, to Colorado studying with Trungpa Rinpoche. She's in Mexico now still being an artist, practicing Tibetan Buddhism, and working on turtle rescue. Here website is
susanrosscreative.com.
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
A Talk on the Sandokai
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
This podcast is a talk I gave and meeting with the All Beings Zen Sangha in Washington DC. On October 19th. Inryu Ponce-Barger is the teacher of this group and their website is allbeingszen.org. The focus of the group right now and therefore of the talk is the Sandokai, an ancient Chinese Zen poem that is chanted at the SF Zen Center. I talk about being at Tassajara when Shunryu Suzuki lectured on it and studying it with him. There's a page on cuke.com for the Sandokai: cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/lectures/sandokai.htm - DC
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Reading--Silas Hoadley Interview and more
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Silas Hoadley began studying with Shunryu Suzuki in 1964. He was highly involved with the founding of Tassajara. Suzuki had Silas giving lectures when Suzuki was ill toward the end of his life. He would have received transmission from Suzuki if Suzuki hadn't died too soon. Silas was a much beloved priest in the SFZC. In this podcast I read a 1994 interview with Silas and a scene with him from the upcoming Tassajara Stories. Check out more about Silas at cuke.com/people/hoadley-silas.htm
Monday Oct 07, 2024
A Month with Dharma Sangha Germany
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
I talk about my recent month spent at Dharma Sangha's ZBZS , their Zen Buddhist center in the Black Forest. The high point of the trip was the passing of the abbotship of Dharma Sangha Germany and America from Zentatsu Richard Baker to Tatsudo Nicole Baden.
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
With Guest Tozan Alan Senauke - an encore presentation
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
This is an encore presentation of a May 2023 podcast with Alan Senauke, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. and author of "Turning Words, Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers." He has a long involvement with Buddhist peace work and music. --- The new introduction to this podcast tells about Alan's heart attack, coma, and recovery which has enabled him to return to teaching and lecturing while being confined to bed and wheelchair. Learn more in the intro to the podcast and at caringbridge.org/site/5f8e9c7a-e151-381f-8185-b311c544e39b> and gofundme.com/f/help-hozan-with-essential-home-care. More on Alan at cuke.com/people/senauke-alan.htm.
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
With Guest Bill Porter (Red PIne) - an Encore Presentation
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Bill Porter is a translator and interpreter of Chinese Buddhist and Taoist poetry and texts, with books on Chinese Hermits and travel. His pen name is Red Pine. Learn more about Bill on his Wikipedia page, on cuke.com, and at redpinemovie.com. This podcast is an encore presentation of a talk with Bill Porter from August 8, 2020.
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
With Guest Vanja Palmers - an Encore Presentation
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Vanja Palmers is a Zen teacher who was at the SFZC centers for years, ordained by Richard Baker, transmission from Kobun Chino. He talks about his life, his way-seeking mind story, work with animal rights, and psychedelics, and dangerous hang gliding. He has a center in the Alps near Lucerne named Felsentor and the Ecumenical House of Silence he and Brother David Steindl-rast founded in Austria. This is an encore presentation of a June 2020 podcast.