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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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01:53:27

With Guest Jake Fishman

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2023/11/06

Jacob Fishman had a rough childhood on the streets of Brooklyn on his own from a young age. He escaped via the US Navy which took him to San Francisco where he became a student at the SF Art Inst. where he heard about Suzuki Roshi and the Zen Center where he started practicing in 1968. He's still living near the ZC but a lot happened in between. See the photos he took in the zendo while people did zazen on shunryusuzuki.com , linked to from his cuke page and the photo page on cuke.com.

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01:29:17

With Guest Dwite Brown

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2023/10/29

Dwite Brown was sitting at Sokoji and sending his brother Ed Zen stories. Ed and Alan Winter came to check the West Coast out and started sitting at Sokoji too. Dwite worked with Silas Hoadley in Silas's importing business. He became an Episcopalian minister, taught computer science at a college. He and his wife Judy converted to Catholicism over three decades ago. Now they live near and are involved with the Abbey of New Clairvaux, a rural Trappist monastery located in Northern California in the

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02:31:46

With Guest Joanna Bull

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2023/10/23

Joanna Bull was a student of Shunryu Suzuki became a psychoanalyst and, as a result of having Gilda Radner as a client, went on to be a founder of Gilda's Club and the Cancer Support Community. She's got a neat ghost story too which led to her coming to the Zen Center.

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01:45:56

With Guest Therese Fitzgerald part two

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2023/10/15

Therese Fitzgerald came to the SF Zen Center in 1976, was ordained as a priest by Richard Baker in 1986, with her husband Arnold Kotler founded the Community of Mindful Living applying the teachings of Thich Nhat Hahn who ordained her as a dharmacharya in 1994. She worked with Maxine Hong Kingston's Veterans Writing Group. Now Therese is a hospice chaplain in Maui where she and Arnie moved to long ago. There's more to her story you can hear about in this podcast and last weeks' part one. To read

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02:03:55

With Guest Therese Fitzgerald

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2023/10/07

Therese Fitzgerald came to the SF Zen Center in 1976, was ordained as a priest by Richard Baker in 1986, with her husband Arnold Kotler founded the Community of Mindful Living applying the teachings of Thich Nhat Hahn who ordained her as a dharmacharya in 1994. She worked with Maxine Hong Kingston's Veterans Writing Group. Now Therese is a hospice chaplain in Maui where she and Arnie moved to long ago. There's more to her story you can hear about in this podcast and then next week's part two.

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01:37:50

With Guest Ted Tripp

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2023/10/02

Ted Tripp heard Shunryu Suzuki speak at Stanford in 1967 and met him the next year at Tassajara where Suzuki let him stay longer in order for him to prepare himself to go to prison for anti-war activities. He's recently retired from teaching English at San Jose State and UC Santa Cruz. He says, "A solid foundation of dharma and ability to practice meditation is a good preparation for what comes next."

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01:23:52

With Guest Rico Provasoli

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2023/09/24

Rico Provasoli came to the SF Zen Center in 1967 to visit his brother Paul Provasoli who'd been there already several years. Rico got a taste of Zen training and set out on a long path that took him to many teachers and places. He's written two books: Please Don't Tell My Guru and Golf Between the Ears. His website is ricoprovasoli.me. For the last couple of decades he's been a student of Cheri Huber.

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01:24:59

With Guest Jeff Sherman

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2023/09/18

Jeff Sherman came to the San Francisco Zen Center in 1968. He practiced with Shunryu Suzuki, Richard Baker, and Katharine Thanas. Now he's with Josho Pat Phelan at the Chapel Hill Zen Center. This is the 2nd podcast with Jeff and focuses on his role in preparing Shunryu Suzuki's ashes site. There's a brief memory of Suzuki and a cool ghost story as well.

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01:28:17

With Guest Charlie Korin Pokorny

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2023/09/10

Charlie Pokorny is now a teacher at the Brooklyn Zen Center, He and his wife Sarah were head teachers at the Stone Creek Zen in Sebastopol, CA, for 8 years. He was at the SFZC, mainly Tassajara and Green Gulch farm for12 years during which time he and Timothy O'Conner Fraser got Shunryu Suzuki lecture audio and transcripts up on the SFZC website. He teaches at the Inst. of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley - and he's done a lot more but you can get at least some of that from the podcast.

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01:29:26

With Guest Michael Papas

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2023/09/03

Michael Papas came to the San Francisco Zen Center in 1980 at the age of 25 ready to kill himself if Zen didn't work. Thus begins his way-seeking mind story.

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01:20:47

With Guest Mark Foote

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2023/08/27

Follow Mark Foote's unique way-seeking mind story and thought. Delve into it at zenmudra.com and at Zazen Notes on Facebook.

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01:33:42

With Guest Eric Larsen - 2

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2023/08/20

This is part 2 of the podcast with Eric Larsen who came to the SFZC in 1970. Aside from his Zen studies, he apprenticed with master sculptor, blacksmith, etc Alex Weygers, and learned chain saw sculpting etc from JB Blunk, and studied with Yurok shaman Harry Roberts. In recent years he's been immersed in Butoh dance in Japan and the US. See ericlarsendance.com. More at Eric's cuke.com page.

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02:12:33

With Guest Eric Larsen

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2023/08/14

Eric Larsen came to the SFZC in 1970. Aside from his Zen studies, he apprenticed with master sculptor, blacksmith, etc Alex Weygers, and learned chain saw sculpting etc from JB Blunk, and studied with Yurok shaman Harry Roberts. In recent years he's been immersed in Butoh dance in Japan and the US. See ericlarsendance.com. More at Eric's cuke.com page. This is part one. Next week part two.

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01:26:26

With guest Bob Shuman

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2023/08/06

Robert Shuman was a student of Shunryu Suzuki in the San Francisco and at Tassajara and then a student of Joshu Sasaki in LA and at Mt. Baldy and then of Philip Kapleau in Rochester. He and his wife Hennie went to Raleigh to lead a Zen group long ago and they're still there now though their group hasn't met since Covid began.

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02:18:08

With Guest Micah Sawyer

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2023/07/31

Micah Sawyer was born at Green Gulch Farm. He talks about growing up in and around the farm and the SF Zen Center but mainly about Micah's Hugs which he and his wife Michelle founded after their son, Micah Jr. tragically died at 22 of a Fentanyl overdose. Check out micahshugs.org.

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01:55:36

With Guest Jim Mussman

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2023/07/22

Jim Mussman came to Zen Center in 1970 via Japan where he attended his third year of medical school and got close to Suzuki students Carl Bielefeldt and Fred Stoeber. We hear about his Buddhist life and his anti-nuclear activity. He's a doctor now in New Rochelle, New York, and practices there with the Empty Hand Zen Center.

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01:12:52

With Guest Alan Senauke

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2023/07/16

This is the 2nd podcast with Alan Senauke. It picks up where we left off on the last one, #91. He 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.

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02:01:22

With Guest Leland Smithson

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2023/07/09

Leland Smithson was a logger from Vancouver who came to the SF Zen Center in 1972 while still a teenager and practiced there for a number of years. He's written some books in the fantasy realm - check him out on Amazon etc - and has a few neat pieces on cuke.com as well. I, DC, talk about what's going on with us here in Bali for a while and then at 21 minutes get ready to calll Leland into the podcast.

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01:13:29

With Guest Laura Burges

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2023/07/02

Laura Burges, in her 2nd appearance as a podcast guest, talks about her latest book, The Zen Way of Recovery: An Illuminated Path Out of the Darkness of Addiction. Laura is a retired school teacher and current Zen teacher who specializes in recovery. Her prior books are Buddhist Stories for Kids and Zen for Kids.

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01:03:04

With Guest Robert Gove

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2023/06/26

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.

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