Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 1h 24m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 4.6 (13)
Since Mar 2024
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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Episodic
Consistency
76%
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About This 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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S6E250 With Guest Richard Jaffe

Feb 02, 2026 2h 11m

Richard Jaffe was a student at the San Francisco Zen Center for years. He went on to become a leading Buddhist scholar who has spent a lot of time in Japan and knows Buddhism and especially Soto Zen…

S6E249 With Guest Shinshu Roberts

Jan 26, 2026 1h 49m

Shinshu Roberts was at the SFZC for years and 18 years ago founded the Ocean Gate Zen Center on 41st Avenue in Capitola next to Santa Cruz with her partner Jake Kinst. The website is oceangatezen.org…

S6E248 A Conversation with June (Omura) Crow

Jan 19, 2026 1h 3m

June Crow began her study and practice of Buddhism in l968 when she met Shunryu Suzuki. She was known as June Omura back then. I, DC, remember her from Tassajara in the early seventies. She met…

S6E247 A Conversation with Helena Bee

Jan 12, 2026 1h 56m

Helena Bee has been in charge of online programs for the San Francisco Zen Center for four years. Her practice has been centered at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center since she first went with friends as…

S6E246 With Guest Bob Halpern

Jan 04, 2026 1h 14m

Bob Halpern began attending session at Sokoji with Shunryu Suzuki in 1965 while living in LA where he helped Taizan Maezumi get his zendo going. He and I were best friends and troublemakers at…

S6E245 With Guest Gerald Weischede

Dec 27, 2025 47m

Gerald Weischede was one of Richard Baker’s first German students. They met in Germany at a workshop or seminar that Baker was giving. Gerald went to Santa Fe to study with Baker when he had his…

S6E244 With Guest Bob Britton returning

Dec 21, 2025 1h 28m

This is a follow-up podcast with Robert Britton, Bob to me, in which he focuses, using his many decades of applying the Alexander technique to sitting. He was at the SF Zen Center for ten years. He…

S6E219 More Tassajara Stories from DC

Dec 14, 2025 1h 24m

DC (me) tells more Tassajara stories as an addendum to the to the Tuesday Dec. 9 SFZC Zoom event with Edward Brown answering participants questions we didn’t get to and elaborating as I do in…

S6E243 With Guest Bob Britton

Dec 06, 2025 2h 11m

Robert Britton, Bob to me,  was at the SF Zen Center for ten years. He became an Alexander teacher and still is. For 39 years he applied what he’d learned from the Alexander method (if I can call it…

S6E242 With Guest Kirk Rhoads

Dec 01, 2025 1h 10m

Kirk Rhoads spent years at the SF Zen Center then moved to Yaizu Japan where Shunryu Suzuki’s home temple Rinsoin is located. In this podcast he talks about how his path led to Zen, his years at Zen…

S6E241 With Guest Mary Mocine

Nov 22, 2025 1h 21m

Mary Mocine had visited Tassajara a couple of times but her first practice experience was at a mindfulness retreat with Yvonne Rand at Green Gulch. She was at Zen Center for a number of years and in…

S6E240 With Guest Barton Stone - an encore presentation

Nov 18, 2025 1h 59m

Barton Stone joined Shunryu Suzuki for zazen very early on. He's a peace activist, expert carpenter, gardener, poet, and now practices Zen with with the Stone Creek Zen Center in Graton, CA. We'll…

S6E239 With Guest Rick McDaniel

Nov 09, 2025 1h 57m

Rick McDaniel has written nine books on Zen, the last of which is to be published by Monkfish title Original Face. He’s done hundreds of interviews with Zen folks all over America and Canada where he…

S6E238 With guest Taiyo Lipscomb

Nov 02, 2025 1h 35m

Taiyo Lipscomb came to the Zen Center in the mid seventies and was there for 23 years, becoming one of the folks who run the place. His story is unique as is he. Listen to the podcast and you’ll see.

S6E237 With Guest John Liles

Oct 25, 2025 1h 31m

John Liles is a long time student of the Atlanta Zen Center. In this podcast we hear about it and its founder Soyu Matsuoka and he tells about an inspiring time he had for a month at Tassajara this…

S6E218 Back from Germany

Oct 21, 2025 43m

DC talks about the three weeks he and his wife Katrinka spent at Dharma Sangha's Zen Center in the Black Forest, a visit with Vanja Palmers at his home on Mt. Rigi in Switzerland just below…

S6E217 Comments on Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts

Oct 11, 2025 31m

Every day for many years, we at Cuke Archives have posted daily lecture excerpts. They're all over the place in terms of representing Suzuki's teaching, how much context is missing, or how appealing…

Report from the Black Forest

Oct 06, 2025 33m

At Dharma Sangha's Zen Buddhist Center in the Black Forest with Katrinka for three weeks. Talk about spending time with Zentatsu Richard Baker and Tatsudo Nicole Baden and some mundane stuff.

S6E236 With Guest Barrie Mottishaw

Sep 27, 2025 2h 10m

Barrie Mottishaw is a landscape artist who spent years at the Jones Farm on Quadra Island, a Zen community that was started by students at the San Francisco Zen Center. Learn about that and more in…

S6E20 DC Reading the Preface to Tassajara Stories

Sep 22, 2025 13m

Just what it says in the title - DC reads the Preface to Tassajara Stories. Full title - Tassajara Stories: a Sort of Memoire/Oral History of the first Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West--the First…

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