Cuke Audio Podcast

With Guest Lee Klinger Lesser

Lee Lesser was for many years a student and assistant to sensory awareness teacher Charlotte Selver. Lee  was a student at the SF Zen Center and with Chris Fortin founded Veteran's Path (veteranspath.org).  

With Guest Tim Burkett

Tim Burkett, early Shunryu Suzuki student and retired abbot of the Minneapolis Zen Meditation Center, talks about his new book,  Enlightenment Is an Accident: Ancient Wisdom and Simple Practices to Make You Accident Prone.

With Guest Christopher Miller

Chris Miller returns to read excerpts about Tassajara and Shunryu Suzuki from Searching for the Path Within: from Poetry to Zen in the Sixties, which he wrote under the pen name Christopher Lennox

With Guest Chris Miller

Chris Miller was a student of Shunryu Suzuki. Herein he talks about the path that led him there. He  was at the first practice period at Tassajara.  He's retired now from teaching college level composition. He published a book:  Searching for the  Path Within: from Poetry to Zen in the Sixties, under the pen name Christopher Lennox - the Zen part is on cuke.com.

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.