Cuke Audio Podcast

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.

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 environmen…

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 tras…

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 Z…

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 i…

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.

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 Su…

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 te…

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 a…

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. Che…

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. S…

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 pract…

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 …

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 ne…

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 …

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  cheesebu…

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. wh…

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 Sil…

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…