Comments on: “Mind Writing Slogans,” via Beat Buddhist Poet Allen Ginsberg: How to Write.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:39:48 +0000

That's really interesting. I wonder what that was all about.

By: EvanRavitz

EvanRavitz — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:16:18 +0000

Great stuff. Too bad that when I told Ginsberg that Mayor Durgin -there at Naropa to dedicate the Ginsberg Library- was censoring people at City Council meetings, he gave me the trite "You'll attract more flies with honey than with vinegar." I didn't think to say then that we weren't looking for flies but for men and women willing to stand up for freedom of speech. Too bad he wasn't still one of them, at a key point in Boulder's degeneration.

By: jdub

jdub — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:22:16 +0000

Before you are born you have the Kaleidoscope presented to you, with choices like an old fashioned wall phone you dial. Each number is a port-hole that presents an opportunity for future greatness or disaster. There’s not ten numbers there is twenty, thirty, fifty, a hundred. But you have to hurry to dial one of them the time is coming and this chance will soon pass. You dial and then you are born. You come into a world where everything is up for grabs. Uncertainty encompasses all.
Spirit and Soul are born under the first breath of this new world. All the answers to the universe rest or quell beneath an ocean of internal infinity. Many questions are at your mercy.

By: Jack Kerouac: Essentials of Spontaneous Prose. | elephant journal

Jack Kerouac: Essentials of Spontaneous Prose. | elephant journal — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:36:20 +0000

[...] all over it from when I took a class, at Karme Choling in Vermont somewhere around 1990, with Allen Ginsberg, famous Beat poet, Buddhist, political activist and all around sweet troublemaker. A lot of [...]

By: Allen Ginsberg: “On Cremation of Chögyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara” | elephant journal

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:34:37 +0000

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By: lina

lina — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:25:22 +0000

Things are symbols of themselves. yes. The purpose of art is to stop time. yes yes yes. that was powerful!

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Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:19:59 +0000

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By: Susan Edwards, longtime friend, artist, poet, Naropa University ‘foremother’ & elephant journal columnist, has passed away. Please send her well-wishes & do tonglen for her. | elephant journal

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:05:38 +0000

[...] from a book of hers, on her friendship with and admiration of Beat Buddhist poet Allen Ginsberg, once, but we don’t got that online yet. She wrote (and illustrated) many more for me and [...]

By: Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche on Art, Dharma and the Art of Life | elephant journal

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:55:44 +0000

[...] and installations in which he showcased his work. He was also passionate about poetry and poets. Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman were both his students, as well as being co-teachers with him at Naropa. In this [...]

By: Beat Poet/Activist/Buddhist/Naropa Writing School co-founder Allen Ginsberg on Charlie Rose. Bonus videos: Jack Kerouac 1959 & Philip Whalen, sorta. | elephant journal

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:09:36 +0000

[...] last saw him…on July 4th one of those years at Naropa University, where he co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with fellow [...]