Cuke Audio Podcast

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 working away at that  in Italy for about half a century. See robertgovesculpture.com and cuke.com/people/gove-rob.htm.

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).  

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.