A Brief memory from Cuke Archives: preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose paths crossed his - and anything else that comes to mind

Draft piece(s) for a work in progress - Tassajara Stories: the Early Years with Shunryu Suzuki

A Brief memory from Cuke Archives: preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose paths crossed his - and anything else that comes to mind

Reading from a Carl Bielefeldt talk on Dogen's Mountains and Waters Sutra 

A Brief memory from Cuke Archives: preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose paths crossed his - and anything else that comes to mind.

What DC doing, construction report, vaccine around the corner

A Brief memory from Cuke Archives: preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose paths crossed his - and anything else that comes to mind

Draft piece(s) for a work in progress - Tassajara Stories: the Early Years with Shunryu Suzuki.

A Brief memory from Cuke Archives: preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose paths crossed his - and anything else that comes to mind

John Palmer, the younger brother of Loring, came to San Francisco at his brother's insistence to enjoy the psychedelic scene at its very beginnings. This almost four hour podcast is his shaggy dog story filled with highs, dealing, women, children, wandering, and arrests and incarceration. He's been on a lot of trips but the one that's stayed with him the longest is zazen - and the memory of Shunryu Suzuki saying to treat ones thoughts as clouds in the sky and let them pass.