RIP Jana Drakka

Jana has been in Hospice care at Jikoji since the summer. A great spirit who reached out to the homeless and forgotten. Farewell Jana. - DC

Jana's cuke page with much more

Masters

Question 3 (male): Are the pure teachings transmitted to us only through the patriarchs and the great masters?SR: Yes, it is so, but great teachers and masters is not only living being.  ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-24-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones.

Negation

Negation means liberation. Negation after negation, you attain step by step liberation.  ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-24-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones.

Alice Haspray

Interviewed for Chronicles Radio in 2007. Transcribed and corrected. It's the one on that page with just her, not the one linked to with her and Richard that was featured a few days ago.

Some memories of an Early ZC student (link fixed)

Added to his brief cuke interview. - thanks for the bad link tip AM!

Anagarika Govinda

A page for the sage and his wife Li Gotami. Gathered a plethora of material on Govinda from cuke.com, lots from Wind Bells..With links to photos such as the one with him and Shunryu Suzuki at Tassajara.

1st Question 1st Shosan

Richard Baker: For the Big Mind, the bridge flows. If everything has such independence, how can we find our own responsibility?

SR: Your responsibility is under your own feet.  ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-24-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones.

Call

Today I act incessantly, incessantly. One enlightenment is not enough. One after another, incessant enlightenments are necessary. Moment after moment, you must call Buddha's name or your name directly. There you have yourself.  ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-24- A as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones.

Rakusu

Larry Hansen's rakusu just received from Mel Weitsman with the dharma name Jodo Myoki.

See it larger on Larry's cuke page at the bottom.

Koans

To live in the world of time and space is like pushing a big snake into a small can. The snake will suffer in the small can. It does not know what is going on outside of the can. Because it is in the can, it is so dark he cannot see anything, but he will struggle in the small can. That is what we are doing. The more we struggle, the greater the suffering will be. That kind of practice will not work. Putting yourself in a small can and sitting day after day in a cross-legged position is worse than a waste of time. Do you understand? Sometimes our practice is something like this. We don't know how much our understanding is limited. That is why you have to study koans. Koans will open up your mind.  ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-24-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones.