Cuke Audio Podcast

With Guest Iva Jones

Iva Jones was a Shunryu Suzuki student who came to the SFZC in 1970. She's done civil rights and peace work. She became an acupuncturist and is now retired.

With Guest Alan Senauke

Alan Senauke is the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center and author of the recently published "Turning Words, Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers." He has a long involvement with  Buddhist peace work and  music. 

With guest Doris Wolter

Doris Wolter has been active in European, especially German Buddhism for decades. She  is a student of Khentse Norbu and  arranged for Crooked Cucumber to be republished in German by Manjughosha as Krumme Gurke –Leben und Lehre des Zen-Meisters Shunryu Suzuki. Twelve years or so ago I attended a seminar led by Richard Baker and David Schneider that Doris hosted for the German Buddhist Union. Recently she was in Bali for a solo retreat and Katrinka and I were fortunate to meet with her a number of times.- dc

With Guest Linda Lehrhaupt

Linda Lehrhaupt is an American Zen teacher, mainly in Germany, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches (IMA).   She began teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in 1993 See institute-for-mindfulness.org.  Her group in Germany is  zen-herz.de  (Zen Heart).  She's a teacher in the White Plum Asangha.  See openmindzen.com.  She's a co-author of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: The MBSR Program to Enhance Health and Vitality, and author of Tai Chi as a Path of Wisdom.

With Guest Lawrence Burns

Lawrence Burns is a professor of clinical psychology and personality  at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. As a kid, he and his siblings went to Tassajara with their mother who, after ten years of research, made a scrapbook on Tassajara history that we turned into a book named A Brief History of Tassajara - published by Cuke Press.

With Guest Dot Kostriken

Dorothy Kostriken will be remembered by some old-timers as Dot Luce back in  very beginning of Tassajara as Zen Mt. Center. In more recent decades  she's been up around the Arcadia zendo.

Life in Bali - the Revenge of the Pig

Going with a copasetic Balinese family to Besakih, the mother temple, and other news.

With Guest Elaine Maisner

Elaine Maisner was a study at the San Francisco Zen Center who retired last year from  35 years in the world of university publishing, the last 28 being at the University of North Carolina Press. 

With Guest David Cohen

David Cohen is the brother of the late great Zen teacher Darleen Cohen. David was around the SFZC a lot in the past -doing electrical and mechanical work. He's  been Cuke Archives tech support at times.  He's been a fly on the wall at times and at others, a fly in the soup. So let's hear what he has to say.

with Guest Frank Simmons

Frank Simmons is an old friend of mine, DC, who came out to  California to visit me and got the Zen bug. He has been taking care  of  a meditation center in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico  for over twenty years. Check it out at meditationsma.org and their Facebook page you can find by writing  "Meditation Center of San Miguel."