The verbatim version

of Shunryu Suzuki lecture 70-06-20 - Within Light There Is Utter Darkness - on the Sandokai was not verbatim and is now. - Thanks to Tracy Cramer for the exacting work and to Peter Ford for getting it down right on Shunryu Suzuki dot com.

Beyond words

Beyond words, beyond thinking there is world. This is the world of absolute-- the opposite of the world of relative or dualistic world. - a verbatim quote from 70-06-20 Suzuki lecture on Sandokai featured today because of some corrections in the verbatim version

RIP

Daniel Berrigan. NY Times.

Kotler Sells Koa

I am pleased to announce the sale of Koa Books to Chiron Publications and Bess Press. After ten years publishing books on personal transformation, social justice, and Hawai‘i, I am now focusing on freelance editing and publishing consulting. Koa’s 12 titles have great new homes. For more about this, please visit koabooks.com

Arnie Kotler cuke page

Have Used this Quote before

There is nothing absolute for us, but when nothing is absolute, that is absolute. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Excerpt from Tony Artino's notes of a Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-11-16 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. 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.

Experience

An experience under LSD may be psychologically similar to a “Zen experience,” but the way the experience is regarded differs between the Buddhist and ordinary few. Zen Buddhism doesn't attach to special experiences but values equally all ordinary experiences. That is why Soto Zen doesn't lay great emphasis on kensho - enlightenment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Excerpt from Tony Artino's notes of a Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-11-16 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. 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.

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore memorial

Photo from a memorial service held at The Paro Dzong, Bhutan arranged by close friend Varya Simpson [ Charles Mac Dermed's wife] -- photo by Varya. - thanks to Brit Pyland wrote the following:

Thank you for posting news of Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore's passing [4-25] and including link to Tom Clark's fine tribute on his blog. Tom and Angelica Clark were also friends of Philip Whalen and Co. from Bolinas days. [Daniel's cuke page]

Please note :  Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore - correct spelling. [Had to fix that everywhere. I just couldn't see it as yy and would write vy - even when Brit pointed it out I went it and changed a yy to vy - working fast and never having seen such a name spelling. - dc]  

Skeptics Beware

Debunking debunkers - an article at fivethirtyeight dot com, a data site started by Nate Silver and my preferred spot to see what's happening with certain political races. The site has more on sports than any other top and I ignore that, but ESPN must give Silver the gold to dig deep into the numbers that help us to steer clear of media profit driven distorted drama. - dc 

Trivia

To empty the mind means only not to be distracted by trivial thoughts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Excerpt from Tony Artino's notes of a Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-11-16 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. 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.

Chile Chocolate Attack

Katrinka went with a group of Bali International Women's Association  BIWA to Delicacao Bali a real cacao plantation yesterday a couple of hours away in world heritage scenic Tabanan and brought back some chocolate naturally and one type was a bunch of little Chile Chocolates. She said they were too hot for anyone to eat more than one. I had three. Wasn't that hot spicy but I can see that a person wouldn't want to gobble them down. But then a strange thing happened. My tongue started swelling up and got two really hard knots fairly large in it toward the tip. It took a while for me to realize I was having an allergic reaction to the chile chocolate. In twenty minutes it started to subside. I ate another to see what would happen. Nothing. I've had another three since then. Nothing. Hmm. - dc