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Anne Waldman Socratic Rap #1

Jun 19, 2008
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First: Peter Warshaw audio clip from Naropa's Audio Archives (1990s)
on wilderness: Romantic ideas are gone
"Do you accept landscape because it's beautiful or
because of the animals it supports?"
A sense of how wilderness has changed--
How do we describe wilderness--
with melancholy? with anger?
[is an actual outside wilderness necessary
in order to maintain wilderness within the mind?]

Anne Waldman on the 'Outrider'
--presupposes a sort of parallel universe, e.g.,
Nelson Mandela, Gandhi...
which of our politicians inflict the least suffering?
There has to be accountability--
see recent Canadian apology to Native Americans
for taking their children away in the past...

The 3 Ns:
NSA
Natural World
Nuclear Problem

Keats' 'negative capability': both, both
Polis: citizens must be watchful.
Spiritual architecture to social engagement...
TAZ: temporary autonomous zone
Apaya: (Buddhist word for) skillful means

Allen's transformation after visiting India
he brought back chanting...
Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger as pilgrims in India.

Sous-valence: ordinary people doing the watching, surveilling
watching the watchers
like Allen, interviewing the interviewers.

If you see something beautiful or ugly
don't run after it--
hold your seat.

Blake: "Art is the tree of life, science is the tree of death."

neutrinos--Buddhist particles

Thinking differently should be encouraged
by artists/poets.

The (Buddhist) Realms:
hell realm
hungry-ghost realm
animal realm
human realm (realm of privileged Naropa participants)
waring-god realm
blissed-out realm

Participants question the worth of voting;
Anne both affirms the value of voting and
not voting. Personally, I think voting the least
I can do, almost wish for more political inclination
tho being at Naropa is a political move--
I'm supporting Naropa's leftist politics
by being here, which is indeed a good thing.

Tonglen for Tibet

Mar 17, 2008
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Tonglen is Tibetan for 'taking and giving', and it refers to a meditation practice found in Tibetan Buddhism.

In the practice, one visualizes taking onto oneself the suffering of others, and giving one's own happiness and success to others. As such it is a training in altruism in its most extreme form. The function of the practice is to:

reduce selfish attachment
increase a sense of renunciation
create positive karma by giving and helping
develop loving-kindness and bodhicitta
it refers to all of the Six Perfections of giving, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration and wisdom, which are the practices of a Bodhisattva.
H.H. The Dalai Lama, who is said to practice Tonglen every day, has said of the technique: "Whether this meditation really helps others or not, it gives me peace of mind. Then I can be more effective, and the benefit is immense". [1]
The Practice of Tonglen by Pema Chodro n