Cuke Audio Podcast
1) Report from the Black Forest
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.
2) With Guest Barrie Mottishaw
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 th...Show More
3) DC Reading the Preface to Tassajara Stories
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 Ye...Show More
4) With Guest Ted Howell part two
Ted Howell came to the SFZC in the mid-seventies and stuck around a long time. In this podcast, part two of two, he talks about his time at the SF Zen Center and a good deal more..
5) With Ted Howell - part one
Ted Howell came to the SFZC in the mid-seventies and stuck around a long time. In this podcast, part one of two, he talks about what he's up to these days, his relationship with squirrels and crows, w...Show More
6) With Guest Peter Ford - Managing Director of Cuke Archives
Peter Ford started helping with Cuke Archives in 2012, maybe earlier. Not sure. Since the day he started he's been pretty much full time. For a number of years he's been the Managing Director of Cuke ...Show More
7) With Guest Marsha Angus
Marsha Angus has been a therapist for many in and out of the SFZC realm for decades. She received lay ordination in 1979 from Richard Baker, was shuso at SFZC in 2007 and received lay entrustment in 2...Show More
8) Life in Bali - Independence Day
August 17, 2025, 80th anniversary of Indonesia 's Independence from the Netherlands. Ketut, Kadek, and I attend a sunrise concert of jazz great Indra Lesmana at the beach in front of Bali Beach Hote...Show More
9) With Adam Beck
Adam Beck was living at Tassajara before the SF Zen Center bought it in December of 66 from his parents. He was two at the time. He's an artist now living in San Anselmo. I've known him through the en...Show More
10) With Meiya Susan Wender
Meiya Wender has practiced at Zen Center since 1972, was ordained as a priest in 1986 (receiving the name Luminous Night, Original Practice, Meiya Honshu), and received Dharma Transmission in the line...Show More