Cuke Audio Podcast

By David Chadwick

Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality Buddhism

What's Cuke Audio Podcast about?

Cuke Audio Podcast is an offering from Cuke Archives, "Preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose paths crossed his," plus a variety of related and unrelated material.

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Cuke Audio Podcast episodes:

06.02.2024
With Guest Jon Bernie
Jon Bernie came to the SF Zen Center in 1973 and practiced there for years. In this podcast he talks about his relationships with Richard Baker, Brother David Steindl Rast, Papaji (Punjaji), Adyashanti, Robert Adams, Mike Murphey of Esalen Inst.,...
05.26.2024
With Guest Amber Hoadley
Amber Hoadley was the first baby at Tassajara in the Zen era. In this podcast she talks about growing up at Zen Center, mainly Green Gulch, and her parents, Kathy and Silas Hoadley who were a significant presence in Zen...
05.19.2024
With Guest Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan came to the SF Zen Center in the mid seventies and plugged away there for ten years. He still lives in the neighborhood and has been a student of David Weinstein in the Yamada/Aitkin lineage for years. He's...
05.11.2024
With Guest Denis Myo Lahey
Denis Myo Lahey is the abbot of the Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco and has been since 2002. He first came to the SF Zen Center in 1970. Listen to this podcast on the path his life has...
05.05.2024
With Guest Tom White
Tom White is a friend of mine from Texas who visited me at Tassajara with his wife before the first practice period on their way to the Philippines to spend a couple of years there in the Peace Corps. While...
05.01.2024
With Guest Ed Brown
This is the third Cuke podcast with Ed Brown is the author of several books, including The Tassajara Bread Book, Tassajara Cooking, No Recipe: Cooking as Spiritual Practice, and he also edited the book of Suzuki Roshi lectures, Not Always...
04.21.2024
With Guest Susan O'Connell
Zesho Susan O'Connell was ordained and given transmission by Reb Anderson. She was VP and president of the SF Zen Center for ten years. She came up with the idea of the Enso Village retirement community and made it a...
04.14.2024
With Guest Gil Fronsdal
Gil Fronsdal is the senior guiding co-teacher at the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) in Redwood City, California and the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, California. He started Buddhist practice in 1975 at the San Francisco Zen Center, and has...
04.08.2024
With Guest Tai Sheridan
Tai Sheridan showed up at the SFZC in the late sixties. He practiced at Tassajara in 1971 and later at Green Gulch Farm. He was close to Mel Weitsman and the Berkeley Zendo for years. while He's written many books...
03.31.2024
With Guest Ned Hoke
Ned Hoke was on Esalen Inst. staff when Shunryu Suzuki led a two day workshop there in 1968. After that, Ned came to Tassajara in the summers as a student. He's been an acupuncturist for forty years. In this podcast...
03.23.2024
With Guest Steve Silberman
Steve Silberman came to the SF Zen Center in 1979 and worked with me, DC, at Greens Restaurant.. He's a writer for Wired Magazine. He talks about his bestselling Neurotribes: the Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. He...
03.16.2024
With Guest Sheridan (Ericson) Adams
Sheridan Adams, formerly Sheridan Ericson, came to Zen Center in 1965. She was at the first practice period at Tassajara. She practiced Vipassana at Spirit Rock and was involved with studying and encouraging diversity there and elsewhere for years. She's...
03.10.2024
With Guest Alan Rabold
Alan Rabold's Buddhist study began before he came to the SF Zen Center in 1968 and continued on with Maezumi, long solo retreats, to Boulder and Trungpa and more. He had a career as a schoolteacher and a photographer. See...
03.03.2024
With Guest Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote is a Zen teacher, writer, activist, actor, and that's just a start. Check him out on cuke.com, at petercoyote.com, and in this podcast.
02.25.2024
With Guest John Steiner again
John Steiner came to the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 a few months before the first practice period at Tassajara and participate in that practice period. His involvement with peace and environmental work began before then and continues to...
02.18.2024
With John Steiner
John Steiner came to the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 a few months before the first practice period at Tassajara and participate in that practice period. I recall him and Bill Lane being the trash collectors and moving materials...
02.11.2024
With Guest Rick Wicks
Rick Wicks went to Tassajara briefly in 1971 . He returned there to practice in 1974. In this podcast he tells about living in Sweden for decades, traveling extensively in Asia and Europe, being at Zen Center, and more. He's...
02.04.2024
With Guest Rhonda Johansen Karzag
Rhonda Johansen Karzag was at Tassajara with her parents for three summers when she was in elementary school. In this podcast she talks about what that was like for her and reads from an account of it she wrote for...
01.28.2024
With Guest Toni (Johansen) Weisberg 2
Last week's guest, Toni (Johansen) Weisberg, reads from the notebook she created in 1966 at the request of Shunryu Suzuki - with some comments from him. She calls it Mad Monkey Mind.
01.22.2024
With Toni (Johansen) Weisberg
Toni Weisberg was Toni Johansen in her Zen Center days. She and her husband Tony came to the SFZC in 1965. In this podcast she talks about how they got there, her close relationship with Shunryu Suzuki, and more.
01.15.2024
With Guest Lynne (Warkov) Lockie
Lynne Lockie, then Warkov, came to Sokoji in 1960 with her husband Saul Warkov. She was a founder of the Minneapolis Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis that invited Dainin Katagiri to be their teacher. She became a psychoanalyst and retired...
01.07.2024
With Linda Hess
Linda Hess came to the SF Zen Center in 1974 after a decade of studies and seeking in India. She has continued returning to India through the years. She became a senior lecturer emeritus at Stanford University in religious studies....
01.01.2024
With guest John K. Nelson
John Nelson was for years a Professor of East Asian religions in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco. He is the author of Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan. His studies and teaching...
12.26.2023
With Guest Stuart Lachs
Stuart Lachs was at the first practice period at Tassajara. and has practiced with many other groups through the years. including two years with Eido Shimano and eleven years with Walter Nowick. Check out his website Zen Perspectives: Commentaries on...
12.17.2023
With Guest JJ Wilson for a 2nd podcast
JJ Wilson founded the Women's Studies program at Sonoma State U. Her husband Phillip Wilson was one of Shunryu Suzuki's early ordained disciples. They came to Sokoji , Suzuki's SF temple, in 1961. She wrote her thesis on Virginia Wolf...
12.10.2023
With Guest Daigaku Rumme
Daigaku Rumme is the teacher at the Confluence Zen Center (confluencezen.org) in Maplewood, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. He was ordained by and received transmission from Seikkei Harada and practiced for 27 years at Hosshinji in Obama, Japan. He...
12.03.2023
With guest Neil Rubenking
Neil Rubenking came to the SF Zen Center in the seventies and had this interest in computers that benefitted the SFZC when hardly anyone knew anything about them and he sailed into a career with PC Magazine that continues to...
11.26.2023
With Guest Vicki Austin
Shosan Vicki Austin is a priest and teacher at the SF Zen Center whose reach has spread further due to her knowledge of ceremonies, meditation, and Iyengar Yoga. Her practice began in 1971 with a near death experience. She has...
11.18.2023
With Guest Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is a renowned poet. She first came to the SF Zen Center, showing up at Tassajara in 1974 when I was head monk, a good day for us both. In this podcast she talks about her life as...
11.12.2023
Shamsul Bahari
Shamsul Bahari was born in Penang, Malaysia, and through a circuitous route through Dennis Kelly ended up at Green Gulch Farm. He's back in Penang now. Check him out in this podcast and at cheeseburgerbuddha.blogspot.com.
11.06.2023
With Guest Jake Fishman
Jacob Fishman had a rough childhood on the streets of Brooklyn on his own from a young age. He escaped via the US Navy which took him to San Francisco where he became a student at the SF Art Inst....
10.29.2023
With Guest Dwite Brown
Dwite Brown was sitting at Sokoji and sending his brother Ed Zen stories. Ed and Alan Winter came to check the West Coast out and started sitting at Sokoji too. Dwite worked with Silas Hoadley in Silas's importing business. He...
10.23.2023
With Guest Joanna Bull
Joanna Bull was a student of Shunryu Suzuki became a psychoanalyst and, as a result of having Gilda Radner as a client, went on to be a founder of Gilda's Club and the Cancer Support Community. She's got a neat...
10.15.2023
With Guest Therese Fitzgerald part two
Therese Fitzgerald came to the SF Zen Center in 1976, was ordained as a priest by Richard Baker in 1986, with her husband Arnold Kotler founded the Community of Mindful Living applying the teachings of Thich Nhat Hahn who ordained...
10.07.2023
With Guest Therese Fitzgerald
Therese Fitzgerald came to the SF Zen Center in 1976, was ordained as a priest by Richard Baker in 1986, with her husband Arnold Kotler founded the Community of Mindful Living applying the teachings of Thich Nhat Hahn who ordained...
10.02.2023
With Guest Ted Tripp
Ted Tripp heard Shunryu Suzuki speak at Stanford in 1967 and met him the next year at Tassajara where Suzuki let him stay longer in order for him to prepare himself to go to prison for anti-war activities. He's recently...
09.24.2023
With Guest Rico Provasoli
Rico Provasoli came to the SF Zen Center in 1967 to visit his brother Paul Provasoli who'd been there already several years. Rico got a taste of Zen training and set out on a long path that took him to...
09.18.2023
With Guest Jeff Sherman
Jeff Sherman came to the San Francisco Zen Center in 1968. He practiced with Shunryu Suzuki, Richard Baker, and Katharine Thanas. Now he's with Josho Pat Phelan at the Chapel Hill Zen Center. This is the 2nd podcast with Jeff...
09.10.2023
With Guest Charlie Korin Pokorny
Charlie Pokorny is now a teacher at the Brooklyn Zen Center, He and his wife Sarah were head teachers at the Stone Creek Zen in Sebastopol, CA, for 8 years. He was at the SFZC, mainly Tassajara and Green Gulch...
09.03.2023
With Guest Michael Papas
Michael Papas came to the San Francisco Zen Center in 1980 at the age of 25 ready to kill himself if Zen didn't work. Thus begins his way-seeking mind story.
08.27.2023
With Guest Mark Foote
Follow Mark Foote's unique way-seeking mind story and thought. Delve into it at zenmudra.com and at Zazen Notes on Facebook.
08.20.2023
With Guest Eric Larsen - 2
This is part 2 of the podcast with Eric Larsen who came to the SFZC in 1970. Aside from his Zen studies, he apprenticed with master sculptor, blacksmith, etc Alex Weygers, and learned chain saw sculpting etc from JB Blunk,...
08.14.2023
With Guest Eric Larsen
Eric Larsen came to the SFZC in 1970. Aside from his Zen studies, he apprenticed with master sculptor, blacksmith, etc Alex Weygers, and learned chain saw sculpting etc from JB Blunk, and studied with Yurok shaman Harry Roberts. In recent...
08.06.2023
With guest Bob Shuman
Robert Shuman was a student of Shunryu Suzuki in the San Francisco and at Tassajara and then a student of Joshu Sasaki in LA and at Mt. Baldy and then of Philip Kapleau in Rochester. He and his wife Hennie...
07.31.2023
With Guest Micah Sawyer
Micah Sawyer was born at Green Gulch Farm. He talks about growing up in and around the farm and the SF Zen Center but mainly about Micah's Hugs which he and his wife Michelle founded after their son, Micah Jr....
07.22.2023
With Guest Jim Mussman
Jim Mussman came to Zen Center in 1970 via Japan where he attended his third year of medical school and got close to Suzuki students Carl Bielefeldt and Fred Stoeber. We hear about his Buddhist life and his anti-nuclear activity....
07.16.2023
With Guest Alan Senauke
This is the 2nd podcast with Alan Senauke. It picks up where we left off on the last one, #91. He is the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center and author of the recently published Turning Words, Transformative Encounters with...
07.09.2023
With Guest Leland Smithson
Leland Smithson was a logger from Vancouver who came to the SF Zen Center in 1972 while still a teenager and practiced there for a number of years. He's written some books in the fantasy realm - check him out...
07.02.2023
With Guest Laura Burges
Laura Burges, in her 2nd appearance as a podcast guest, talks about her latest book, The Zen Way of Recovery: An Illuminated Path Out of the Darkness of Addiction. Laura is a retired school teacher and current Zen teacher who...
06.26.2023
With Guest Robert Gove
Rob Gove started practicing with Shunryu Suzuki at Sokoji in the early 60s. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and brought a number of other students from there to Sokoji. He became a stone sculptor and has been...

What's Cuke Audio Podcast about?

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Cuke Audio Podcast episodes:

With Guest Jon Bernie

With Guest Amber Hoadley

With Guest Dan Kaplan

With Guest Denis Myo Lahey

With Guest Tom White

With Guest Ed Brown

With Guest Susan O'Connell

With Guest Gil Fronsdal

With Guest Tai Sheridan

With Guest Ned Hoke

With Guest Steve Silberman

With Guest Sheridan (Ericson) Adams

With Guest Alan Rabold

With Guest Peter Coyote

With Guest John Steiner again

With John Steiner

With Guest Rick Wicks

With Guest Rhonda Johansen Karzag

With Guest Toni (Johansen) Weisberg 2

With Toni (Johansen) Weisberg

With Guest Lynne (Warkov) Lockie

With Linda Hess

With guest John K. Nelson

With Guest Stuart Lachs

With Guest JJ Wilson for a 2nd podcast

With Guest Daigaku Rumme

With guest Neil Rubenking

With Guest Vicki Austin

With Guest Jane Hirshfield

Shamsul Bahari

With Guest Jake Fishman

With Guest Dwite Brown

With Guest Joanna Bull

With Guest Therese Fitzgerald part two

With Guest Therese Fitzgerald

With Guest Ted Tripp

With Guest Rico Provasoli

With Guest Jeff Sherman

With Guest Charlie Korin Pokorny

With Guest Michael Papas

With Guest Mark Foote

With Guest Eric Larsen - 2

With Guest Eric Larsen

With guest Bob Shuman

With Guest Micah Sawyer

With Guest Jim Mussman

With Guest Alan Senauke

With Guest Leland Smithson

With Guest Laura Burges

With Guest Robert Gove

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