Cuke Audio Podcast

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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."

Narcissus Quagliata was a student of Shunryu Suzuki and an artist who has had an impressive career with stained glass. See him on cuke.com and at narcissusquaglita.com. Also check his books out at Amazon.com. 

Joe Cohen is a musician and audiophile and spiritual seeker who first heard Shunryu Suzuki speak in 1967. He's got a high end audio store in Novato, CA, and his business is  The Lotus Group USA. - https://www.lotusgroupusa.com/

Joe Cohen is a fine musician and audiophile - see Lotus Group USA. He came to the SF Zen Center during the Shunryu Suzuki era.

Jerry Bolick is a practitioner of Jodo Shin Buddhism and a poet.  You can find his poetry at  jerrybolick.blogspot.com - Meditations in the Slow Lane