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PODCAST

Cuke Audio Podcast

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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All Episodes

01:09:14

With Guest Steve Silberman

Cuke Audio Podcast ·

2024/03/23

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 also wrote Skeleton Key A Dictionary for Deadheads.He talks about all this and more in this podcast. He has done his homework.

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01:32:10

With Guest Sheridan (Ericson) Adams

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2024/03/16

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 going to retire as a psychotherapist next year. As you will hear in this podcast, she's stayed on a spiritual path through the years.

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01:29:16

With Guest Alan Rabold

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2024/03/10

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 alanrabold.com and get a copy of his beautiful book of photographs, Appreciating the World, and check him out on Instagram. He's teaching meditation these dats at Naropa University. In this podcast he talks about all that and more.

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01:05:40

With Guest Peter Coyote

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2024/03/03

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.

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01:04:54

With Guest John Steiner again

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2024/02/25

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 this day as does his spiritual path. These days he's focusing on getting young people and minorities registered to vote. In this podcast he talks about how he got on the so-called spiritual path and the engaged one and more. This is the 2nd of two podcasts with

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01:57:12

With John Steiner

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2024/02/18

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 around. His involvement with peace and environmental work began before then and continues to this day as does his spiritual path. These days he's focusing on getting young people and minorities registered to vote. In this podcast he talks about all this and more. Next

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01:48:15

With Guest Rick Wicks

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2024/02/11

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 got a doctorate in economics and is a consultant in that realm. He's worn lots of different hats. He calls himself a successful autistic in the podcast. There's a great deal on and from him on cuke.com.

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01:37:53

With Guest Rhonda Johansen Karzag

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2024/02/04

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 school when she was in the fourth grade. You can read it while listening if you go to her mother, Toni Johansen Weisberg's cuke page where there's a link to it - in her excellent young handwriting.

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01:36:11

With Guest Toni (Johansen) Weisberg 2

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2024/01/28

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.

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01:49:51

With Toni (Johansen) Weisberg

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2024/01/22

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.

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01:46:27

With Guest Lynne (Warkov) Lockie

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2024/01/15

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 recently from teaching mindfulness at the New College in Sarasota., Florida. She is still involved in contemplative practice.

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01:47:23

With Linda Hess

Cuke Audio Podcast ·

2024/01/07

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. She's written three books focusing on the poet Kabir and translating his songs/poems and is working on another. The Bijak of Kabir 1983, Bodies of Song, Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India - 2015. Emptiness. Kumar Gandharva performs the poetry of

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01:29:53

With guest John K. Nelson

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2024/01/01

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 have included a good deal on Zen. In this podcast he talks about experiences and observations in Japan, Indonesia, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and more. Check out his blog Far West Passage: Experimental Views on Asia, Buddhism, and

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02:38:08

With Guest Stuart Lachs

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2023/12/26

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 Zen and Society - https://lachs.inter-link.com and learn more about him in this podcast.

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01:17:26

With Guest JJ Wilson for a 2nd podcast

Cuke Audio Podcast ·

2023/12/17

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 there and is a leading authority on Virginia Wolf.

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01:51:05

With Guest Daigaku Rumme

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2023/12/10

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 was with the Soto Zen International Center for seven years while living at the SFZC City Center. For five years he was director of the Soto Zen Buddhism North America Office and the Head Priest of Zenshuji in LA. In 2015 he moved to St. Louis and has

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01:53:31

With guest Neil Rubenking

Cuke Audio Podcast ·

2023/12/03

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 this day as their senior security analyst. He also worked for the CIA as a student summer job. Listen to this podcast and you'll learn more vital information about Neil and so forth.

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02:17:52

With Guest Vicki Austin

Cuke Audio Podcast ·

2023/11/26

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 studied and taught in America, India, Japan, and Australia where she became fascinated with the aboriginal ways . Listen to this podcast with her and find out what she has to say about all this - and more.

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01:48:56

With Guest Jane Hirshfield

Cuke Audio Podcast ·

2023/11/18

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 a poet, a Buddhist, a lover of life and this planet and all that is living. She reads from her recently published The Asking: New and Selected Poems (from fifty years of poetry).

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01:40:01

Shamsul Bahari

Cuke Audio Podcast ·

2023/11/12

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.

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