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7/22/07 - I emailed back and forth this week with David Chadwick, author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, a very well-known zen teacher (author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and others), about a video I once saw at the Chapel Hill Zendo of Suzuki Roshi. Some of the video is posted online in a great interview with David that Brad Warner talked about. I'd LOVE to be able to see that video again (which has a hilarious exchange with Reb Anderson Roshi and Suzuki Roshi, as well). After going to a zen and breadmaking workshop with Ed Brown at 9th St Bakery a few months ago, I emailed him about it as well. I also emailed the presenter of the video, Taigen Dan Leighton, about two years ago. Basically, I haven't forgotten about it! :-) So the weekly check in here is that I asked David if I could help in any way getting the SFZC to release the video for we newer students who got into zen practice after Suzuki Roshi died. I offered to help video edit or design covers, whatever's in the way of it getting out. He suggested I keep pestering folks, and remembered my emails (and that of local Abbess Taitaku Pat Phelan, whom he said emailed about it as well) from two years ago to other folks. I'll keep following up every once in a while with someone new and the folks I've talked to already. So I created a 1 month from now suspended task in my electronic tickler (heh, sounds funny) to remind me to email my current list of contacts saying "hey, how cool would it be...". I can imagine many zen students wanting to have public access to this great video. I certainly do.

9/30/07
Purpose/Principles/Values
- I feel comfortable with the previous summary describing my values on this...

Vision/Success/Mission
Success looks like having a purchasable or (ideally) public video record of Shunryu Suzuki roshi. His contribution to US Zen seems too great to not offer up to be widely available.

Brainstorm
Well, I've contacted a number of teachers already about this. I already have a suspended reminder task to pop up and remind me to remind them again that I'd be willing to help.

Organize
It's organized, at this point - organic is ok on this, and what's capturable is captured.

Next Actions
Suspended email task to check in with a few folks.

Labels: community projects, Reb Anderson, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi