The letter i sent to my CTR/Vajradhatu-Sangha connection in Boulder Colo., my DeadBuddhistsOfAmerica Dharma-Heart-Brother, Hunter Quarterman (to paraphrase the Grateful Dead in "Truckin' ": "Sometimes the Light's All Shining on Him, Other Times It's Either Clear or Dim...")
(And THANK YOU Peter B. Chowka....)
I just found this magazine from 1976 (gregorian calendar) in my "early Dharma years" suitcase...
The broke capitalist in me immediately thought "Ebay!" & then the Bodhisattva-like part of me surfaced & I wanted to give it to you...
Then I decided I better at least read it first...
And after I did and started really relating to Allen Ginsberg's mental process & aspects of enlightened mind that he was spreading through this interview, including really profound things that some of our Vajrayana teachers had told him...
Well, I thought maybe I should keep it after all and just copy it for you...
So, I'm half-way through it and decide to see if there was anything on the internet re: the album he recorded with Dylan that they created to spread the Dharma back in '71, well before the time of the Rolling Thunder Review Tour which was intended to do the same thing as you'll see in the interview.... (that a friend of mine in the mountains played for me the song "Meditation" from recently)...
And INSTEAD i found the actual interview...
SO... through the wonders of modern technology & thanks to people like Al Gore who created the internet, here you go:
http://members.aol.com/pbchowka/ginsberg76.html
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Dancing With the Dead (My Response to my friend Ted Quinn)
tedquinn@nomadhouse.com wrote (around 8p.m.): sending love to you and your sister. ted. (To better understand this, scroll down to read the previous post 1st...)
OK as i was saying b4 i so rudely interrupted meself...
last night i watched the last part of this 50th anniversary of the Grammys & they showed Christine Aguilera doing James Brown's hit 'It's a man's world (But he wouldn't be nothing without a woman)' & she actually did quite a good job. So this evening i'm moving all this stuff out to storage & discover the box of old issues of the Lost Angeles Free Press that my sister gave me a few years ago (which were probably actually mine back in the day because i subscribed & don't remember that she did...) and i'm going thru them & see an ad for the Grateful Dead playing the Santa Monica Civic in '70. Then i'm paying attention to the time because i want to do the Dharma practice with the focus on her at eight p.m. & just about that time in a box of my dad's stuff i find her kindergarten class picture from '58... Wotta Trip! So that goes on the shrine down below my Buddhist teachers & her other photos i have up there & proceed to light the lamp & incense followed by the meditation. Then at 9pm i remember that the Dead show is on KKCR.org from Kauai, and that's a perfect completion for my sister's soul meditation as she loved the Dead too, so I get it on the Internet & the DJ Jackie Row is telling some listener that she found the song he wanted & proceeds to play the Dead performing "It's a Man's World" with Pigpen on vocals, from Binghamton, NY on May 2, 1970(!) (i found out from the Internet search), possibly the only time they performed it from what i could tell... Well, after time-travelling back to that time period a couple hours before from going thru and straightening up a whole mess of old Freeps, i once again had my mind blown in the Dead-Dharma connected realm...
And once again i'm Dancin' with the Dead (pun intended)! -=0=-
Muchas Garcias por el Amor!
OK as i was saying b4 i so rudely interrupted meself...
last night i watched the last part of this 50th anniversary of the Grammys & they showed Christine Aguilera doing James Brown's hit 'It's a man's world (But he wouldn't be nothing without a woman)' & she actually did quite a good job. So this evening i'm moving all this stuff out to storage & discover the box of old issues of the Lost Angeles Free Press that my sister gave me a few years ago (which were probably actually mine back in the day because i subscribed & don't remember that she did...) and i'm going thru them & see an ad for the Grateful Dead playing the Santa Monica Civic in '70. Then i'm paying attention to the time because i want to do the Dharma practice with the focus on her at eight p.m. & just about that time in a box of my dad's stuff i find her kindergarten class picture from '58... Wotta Trip! So that goes on the shrine down below my Buddhist teachers & her other photos i have up there & proceed to light the lamp & incense followed by the meditation. Then at 9pm i remember that the Dead show is on KKCR.org from Kauai, and that's a perfect completion for my sister's soul meditation as she loved the Dead too, so I get it on the Internet & the DJ Jackie Row is telling some listener that she found the song he wanted & proceeds to play the Dead performing "It's a Man's World" with Pigpen on vocals, from Binghamton, NY on May 2, 1970(!) (i found out from the Internet search), possibly the only time they performed it from what i could tell... Well, after time-travelling back to that time period a couple hours before from going thru and straightening up a whole mess of old Freeps, i once again had my mind blown in the Dead-Dharma connected realm...
And once again i'm Dancin' with the Dead (pun intended)! -=0=-
Muchas Garcias por el Amor!
Excerpt From the Letter I Sent Out To All My Sister Chris's Friends
On the One Year Anniversary Todayof the Transition to the Other Side of my sister Christina (btw it was my parents that told me that her name means "Little Christ")...
We can all light a candle or something, focus together on the beautiful Love-Light of her Soul at about 8pm tonight from wherever we are, and (it is my belief that...) she will know & will laughingly send back her Love...
Last January I shared the info about her life & transition with everyone at a gathering at Urban Yoga down here in Palm Springs, and it is by Cosmic Coincidence that they are holding the ceremony described below this weekend (which I will attend with Christina's beautiful "Joy of Life" photo)...
Thank You in Peace
Steven "Sunny" Sun-Downer-=0=-
Sunday Dec. 2nd 5:00pm Urban Yoga's Annual
"Dearly Departed Beloved Souls" Celebration and Pot Luck with
Temple Bhajan Band at
Urban Yoga Center, Hotel Zoso
SURA will be leading special prayers
Celebrating Life ~ and honoring our
"Dearly Departed Beloved Souls"
who have passed over this last year.
We can all light a candle or something, focus together on the beautiful Love-Light of her Soul at about 8pm tonight from wherever we are, and (it is my belief that...) she will know & will laughingly send back her Love...
Last January I shared the info about her life & transition with everyone at a gathering at Urban Yoga down here in Palm Springs, and it is by Cosmic Coincidence that they are holding the ceremony described below this weekend (which I will attend with Christina's beautiful "Joy of Life" photo)...
Thank You in Peace
Steven "Sunny" Sun-Downer-=0=-
Sunday Dec. 2nd 5:00pm Urban Yoga's Annual
"Dearly Departed Beloved Souls" Celebration and Pot Luck with
Temple Bhajan Band at
Urban Yoga Center, Hotel Zoso
SURA will be leading special prayers
Celebrating Life ~ and honoring our
"Dearly Departed Beloved Souls"
who have passed over this last year.
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