Grahame Petchey

Grahame is now at Bay Area Healthcare Center at 1833 10^th Avenue, Oakland CA. But maybe he's not in hospice. That might have been a premature assumption on someone's part. I talked to him my last night and his morning - just a few words. Mainly to his daughter Julia. I was on speaker phone so didn't clarify the hospice thing but that facility is for rehab. - dc

Grahame Petchey cuke page

Place

Ideas of good and bad or ideals of right or wrong will not help. The most important point is to find your place in its widest sense. This requires experiences other than narrow egoistic or provincial ones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-03-26. Edited by DC - Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. - Go to cuke.com What's New (now at blogger) to see more daily posts.

Grahame Petchey

Grahame is in hospice care in Oakland. More as we learn.

Grahame Petchey cuke page

Two Shunryu Suzuki calligraphy

He didn't do a lot. Drawn with yucca leaves. Thanks to Bob Watkins for having these scanned and emailed. Read all about it in the cuke interview with Bob.

Place

It is very important in our practice to find our place within this practice. When everyone and everything has thus found its right home, we call it Nirvana or Tathagata's Way. But our own practice area is as wide as the universe, and until we find our own place in the universe, we have not yet arrived. (Suzuki's explanation of this was a person finding his place in his family, in society, and the family's place in society, and in the world, and society's in the world). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-03-26. Edited by DC - Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. - Go to cuke.com What's New (now at blogger) to see more daily posts.

Awakened

Transmission of this big mind occurs with no loss “of even a speck of dust” by the master, and no gain “of even a thread” by the now awakened disciple. This is because everyone is already within his big self. -----------------------------------------------(Suzuki obviously quoting something classical here)---------------------------------- [Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-03-26. Edited by DC - Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. - Go to cuke.com What's New (now at blogger) to see more daily posts.

Odds

Those favoring Clinton in this election are happy about what the polls say. Huff Post gives her a 97% chance whereas 538 which tends to give Trump higher odds gives her an 80% chance. Nate Silver of 538 warns about thinking 80 or 85% is a sure thing and points out that 17% is ones odds of losing at Russian roulette and how confident would one feel about that? His site is hosted by science-friendly ESPN and he uses sports analagies sometimes like a team with a 15% chance that just beat the Warriors. Here's a long shot that happened to me recently.

Troubled

When small mind feels it is big mind we are then troubled by its assertiveness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-03-26. Edited by DC - Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. - Go to cuke.com What's New (now at blogger) to see more daily posts.

Rip Bobby Vee

Sixties pop star Bobby Vee has died.

Read about the DC song that tells Scott Beach's true story about Vee's first big concert.

No small

To transmit the Buddha-mind is to transmit our practice. There is then no small mind or small self.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-03-26. Edited by DC - Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. - Go to cuke.com Wha at's New (now at blogger) to see more daily posts.