Cuke Audio Podcast

A Cuke Audio mini podcast - a vignette from Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

Mel Weitsman recently stepped down as abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center where he first went to be the head of in 1967. Seems like 91 is a good age for retirement. Today we talk about, among a few other topics, Shunryu Suzuki's radiation belt.

A mini podcast - Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, vignette # 80 - Enlightenment

Life in Bali is our weekly respite from all that Zen nonsense. It's where we  have lived since late 2013. So once a week we give a peak at what it's like for us here and what some other folks, locals and expats, have to say. We is Katrinka and I, DC, poohbah of Cuke Audio and Cuke Archives. David Kubiak lives in India and Japan and has some interesting comments on Bali as well - and on corporations and Big Medicine to heal our ailing societies and selves. Check him out at

A mini podcast - Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, vignette # 79 - Difference

Two draft pieces for a work in progress - Tassajara Stories: the Early Years with Shunryu Suzuki

A mini podcast - a vignette from Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki

A phone chat with Erik Storlie, early Shunryu Suzuki student and author.

Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, vignette # 77 - Eat

Since so many of us are glued on election results, didn't get a guest for today's Life in Bali podcast, but then in editing Saturday's Zen related podcast I thought that the first part with Erik Storlie was appropriate so he comes in there at about 31 minutes. He's a retired professor and longtime Zennie from Minneapolis.