HOWL: JuBu Allen Ginsberg's 100th birthday

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Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's 100th birthday is being marked by celebrations around the world – an appreciation of his importance to poetry and how his influence on the medium continues.

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• Jack Kerouac's nonfiction book on Buddhism
• AUDIO: Buddhist-Catholic poet Jack Kerouac
• VIDEO: Dharma Bum Temple, San Diego, California

"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg summarized

JuBu Ginsberg's Sunflower Sutra (poem)

(extropyofdays) Allen Ginsberg's modernist poem "Sunflower Sutra"

Nazis invented meth as pharmaceutical Pervitin

"Howl," also known as "Howl for Carl Solomon," is a poem composed by drug-addled Allen Ginsberg (who had shot himself up with methamphetamine or what Hitler's doctor shot up the Fuhrer with under the German pharmaceutical name Pervitin, possibly linked to words like perky and perverted) in 1954–1955.

Poet activist Ginsberg with protestors, Miami

Gay Ginsberg began work on "Howl" in autumn of 1954. He performed it at the Six Gallery reading in San Francisco in Oct. 1955. Fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books was at the performance and published the work in the 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems.

Howl and Other Poems

Upon its release, Ferlinghetti and City Lights Bookstore Manager (Japanese Buddhist) Shigeyoshi Murao were charged with disseminating obscene literature. Both perverts were arrested.

On Oct. 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene [1], and the heroic publishers were hailed as innovative geniuses and brave publishing mavericks for spotting Ginsberg's talent.

Highly controversial at first and for years excluded from the academic canon, "Howl" has gradually come to be regarded as a great work of 20th-century American literature [2].

Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg

(Swingin' Pig) Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg visit Jack Kerouac's grave (1975)

The poem is also closely associated with the group of writers known as the "Beats" or Beat Generation [2,3]. More

• "Sunflower Sutra" (The Poetry Foundation)

The "Sunflower Sutra"

1967 Mantra-Rock Dance Avalon
poster by poet Allen Ginsberg

This poem is an account of a sojourn (trip) with Jack Kerouac in a railroad yard, the discovery of a sunflower covered in dirt and soot from the railroad yard, and the subsequent revelation that this is a metaphor for all humanity: "We are not our skin of grime."

This relates to his vision, an auditory hallucination of poet William Blake reading "Ah, Sunflower": "Blake, my visions." (See also line in Howl: "Blake-light tragedies" and references in other poems).

• Author Emily Sigalow, American JewBu (Princeton U Press)

Manager Shig Murao

The theme of the poem is consistent with Ginsberg's revelation in his original vision of Blake: the revelation that all of humanity is interconnected. (See also the line in "Footnote to Howl": "The world is holy!").

The structure of this poem relates to "Howl" both in its use of the long line and its repetition of the "eyeball kick" (paratactical juxtapositions) at the end. Ginsberg says in relating his thought process after the experiments of "Howl":

"What about a poem with rhythmic buildup power equal to Howl without use of repetitive base to sustain it? The Sunflower Sutra...did that, it surprised me, one long who" [6]. More

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It's a Dharma Bum life, Jay-Z.

Societe US says there are 18 behaviors branded as low class by American society. Some of us are the haves and some are the have-nots, but being "low class" isn’t so much about what we have as much as it is about what we don’t, namely "class." The American caste system isn't as obvious to outsiders as it is to us. Any highschooler learns it. "Social clues," Cage the Elephant tells us, are the key. There are dead-giveaways, habits that tell everyone that our upbringing was not posh, upscale, spoiled, or even pampered.

Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac)

We were at the back of the plane by the bathrooms. We fed on Twinkies instead of cake. We ate Heinz yellow mustard on benches instead of Grey Poupon in cars. We spat like Hock Tua Gal [Hawk Tuah Girl], as Southern as a Tennessee brat in Daisy Dukes. We considered hitching all the way to the greatest National Park in the land, Yo-Semite, now open to Gentiles, too.

This is not about eating junk food all the way to the holy haunts of the Paiute Indians. This is about getting back to the land and running into a meadow or grove until a deer or Sasquatch notices. (Bigfoot is probably high up in the cold hills, not wandering from peak to peak in the summer flush of a late spring and all this Tuolumne River melt into the lazy Merced River of the valley). So mosquitoes and chiggers, mites and ticks are much bigger worries than the park's charismatic megafauna like grizzlies and brown bears.

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Hey, Trashy, you're not riding or dining with us. Keep it movin, and take that knapsack with you.

You’ve known all along…

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Poetry by Charles Harmon "Beat It"

When you're burning on the inside...

American Buddhist Jack Kerouac is recognized for his style, which is stream of consciousness called "spontaneous prose."

Thematically, his work covers topics such as Buddhism, promiscuity, his Catholic spirituality, drugs, jazz, travel, life in NYC, and poverty.

He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beat Poets, a progenitor (precursor) of the hippie movement...

He greatly influenced many 1960s cultural icons, including the Beatles, the Doors, Bob Dylan, and the founder of the Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia. More

BEAT IT

By Charles Harmon (edited by Seven)

Allen Ginsberg with Jack Kerouac

Cruising Hollywood, 1959,

family wagon, parents at the

wheel, little sisters gawking at

Grauman's and the imprints of idols,

feet, hands, endearments

etched in concrete, Walk of Fame,

pointing at the stars set in the sidewalk

between tourist toes and heels

"Look, a Beatnik!" mom directs us

toward a man who sits on the curb,

his sandaled feet dangling in the gutter,

dressed in a dark turtleneck and smart

black beret, whacking a bongo,

singing, billowing smoke

as a young woman sits next to him

with an arm around his waist, cigaretting

smoldering on his lipstick stained cheek,

as tourists drop coins in a cup

"What's a Beatnik?" I ask, but a man

without options, who looks cool doing

nothing

"They like poetry," Mom explains, "and

music, don't care too much about money,

seeking enlightenment or come what may"

Wow, I think, a man after my own heart,

as I'd already memorized dozens of poems

in school and liked to sing, a choirboy

with a radio and TV, eager to learn

the way to enlightenment, something I

read in the World Book of all the Buddha

knew, understanding stated in haiku

like a novel on James Bond in the 6th

grade, when 007 visits a faraway land

to extract useful information from the

Japanese Secret Service, offering

some spy service in return, but JSS

Head Tiger Tanaka teaches 007 how

to compose haiku instead

You only live twice

once when born and once when you 

finally face death

A spy evades capture, and a ten-year-old

is blown away, one avoids execution

the other asks his mom, Is Death here yet?

There is reality and there is fate

and are they not the same? Knowing

that we all know Death, who is yet to

come, I resolved to live, to do something

to make life amount to more than

not yet dying

So I did, I understood what the Buddha

must have meant, only etching out haiku

much later on a cube of rice paper, square

and the size of a cigarette with twisted ends,

discovering Kerouac Jack, who presented it

to an audience American, altering the rules,

setting it free

On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and

artful lines in 5-7-5 or not

all to kindle a sense of the adventure, an

excursion with and without signs

do not enter here

do not look behind

enter over there

Did it rhyme? Did I trek with Scouts

arm myself with the Sierra Club

get away with friends until my 16th

summer on the planet, hitching my sole

and the other on a hike to NorCal to visit

Berkeley and Stanford and grandparents in the Bay,

listening to the Jefferson Airplane and Grace

steering clear of the scene psychedelic, blazing

on a natural high and the books at City Lights

and a man named Ferlinghetti

who gave me a Little Red Book by Mao

a souvenir of what might have been had I

been a Beat, had I penned as artfully as

the JuBu Ginsberg and other rows at City Lights

Rodolfo Ybarra: On the Beat Generation and Bob Kaufman

Snyder, Everson, Rexroth, Jeffers, Welch, McClure

many of whom I met at their readings, discovering

former Zen monastic Leonard Cohen who sat atop

Mount Baldy overlooking L.A., searching for Truth

in nature, peace, love, spirituality, seeking

the mystical in the ordinary, while I climbed mountains

in the vast out of doors, seeking it in science at the UC

with Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics, exploring the

parallels of East and West on a quest for Truth

ism after ism saying the same thing: we are all

connected as we learn to see

all of it a mystical experience, haiku poetry

• POEM: Me and Jack Kerouac: "Repo Man"

American Buddhism? Spiritual revolution (doc)

BTN, "American Buddhism!" (documentary) 12/9/21; CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Spiritual Revolution! American Buddhism (BTN)

North American lay Buddhists meditating at the Pacific Zen Institute (PZI), California

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(Korea Buddhist Television Network Official channel) Buddhism, once primarily practiced in Asia, is now also practiced in the United States.

American Saint Jack Kornfield (spiritrock.org)

As Buddhism does not require any formal "conversion," American Buddhists can easily incorporate Dharma practice into their normal routines and traditions. The result is that American Buddhists come from every ethnicity, nationality, and religious tradition.

The Beat Poets were early American Buddhists

In 2012, The San Diego Union-Tribune estimated there were 1.2 million U.S. practitioners, of whom 40% are living in Southern California.

In terms of percentage, with its large Asian and particularly Japanese American community, Hawaii has the most Buddhists at 8% of the population.

The term "American Buddhism" can be used to describe all Buddhist groups within the United States, including Asian American Buddhists born into the tradition, who comprise the largest percentage of Buddhists in the country.

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Me and Jack Kerouac: "Repo Man" (poem)

On the Road an all-American novel that made Beat poet Jack Kerouac a household name

Pin on Buddhist quotes by famous people like Jack Kerouac (pinterest.com)

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"Repo Man"

Walked all the way down Telegraph

towards the Bay and the freeway

where I hitched a ride with Jim

driving a brand new Riviera

I had just read Kerouac’s magnum opus

and remembered a childhood event

the weekly pilgrimage to church

seven of us in a Ranch Wagon

running late checking the clocks

in gas stations racing by

passing Jim Child’s Brick on the boulevard

this 5-year-old never saw any children or bricks

until Dad explained it all about how words can have

multiple meanings and ambiguity between the lines

and that Jim Childs was owner of a car dealership

Jack Kerouac | Kerouac Society

but this Buick man was a friendly redneck from Texas

Jim Charron asking to be called JC as he grinned

the left side of his neck and face

and outboard arm sunburned red

for he was a repo man he explained

driving over this great land of ours

repossessing what was bought but not paid for

by frickin’ deadbeats

and he had just picked up this beauty in Berkeley

and I could ride with him all the way to LA

just had to pick up another repo in San Jose

but he’d hate to have to tow it

towing slowed him down

so would I like to drive it

I was pleased he could trust a college kid

so I said sure and an hour later we were

at a fancy white house with a picket fence

Sheriff’s deputy armed with writ and revolver

and a hotwire mechanic armed with a Slim-Jim

and before we knew it we were stealing

a nearly new car right out of a driveway

from a newly delinquent no longer legal owner

who’d gotten in over his head with too many girlfriends

and mortgages and bankruptcy and divorce proceedings

now way behind on payments

American Jack Kerouac and his Buddhist ethic (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)

“Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid...orgy.” (quotefancy.com)

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You never really own anything

They started it just as the deadbeat came running out

waving a rubber check with lipstick stains on his shirt

and red slap marks on his face under tears running down

but the deputy waved him off with the court order

Didn’t have to shove the .44 Magnum in his face

as Mike the mechanic burned rubber driving it

down the block and around the corner

where Jim said Get in and keep up

I drove just as fast flying down the highway

master of the road king of the universe

blasting our way south to LA

at the speed of sound and light

at the wheel of a black Cadillac

Jim called it a big ass land yacht

radio blasting Like a Rolling Stone

time to think time to feel time to breathe

AUDIO: Ethan Hawke, Dharma Bums

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time to be here now time to live or die to groove

so very beat — an 18-year-old freshman

cruising at 80 with Jack in the back

Dean riding shotgun

What was in that little white pill Jim gave me

Said it would help me stay awake

Hours later we passed far down the 101

near Santa Maria or San Luis Obispo

a wreck off the side of the road

two cars twisted together

bodies splattered all over the pavement’s grey

police cars and fire trucks and ambulances

swarming the site emergency

personnel working and as I was getting tired

I realized that could have been me

falling asleep at the wheel

drifting across the center line

smashing into oncoming traffic

and I still had lots of miles to go before I sleep

but I wanted to go on the road drive to New York

with the Dharma Bums and fly me to the moon

around the world in 80 ways across the universe

just wanted to make it home for Thanksgiving

We are all driving rentals on suspended licenses

trying to outrun the big repo guy in the sky

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CHARLES HARMON is former science teacher in Los Angles, who loves to write, live, love, cook, and eat. He find teaching science to be like cooking and cooking like writing poetry. He is currently working on a novel. He has been published in Spectrum, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Altadena Poetry Review, Lummox, Frogpond, Ribbons, Atlas Poetica, bottle rockets, Akitsu, hedgerow, failed haiku, Red Shift, Haiku Foundation Dialogue, prune juice, Autumn Moon, All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku Anthology... 

The Dharma Bums

A bhikkhu reborn on the road

Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature.  First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans -- mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer -- whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras. More

• Poet Charles Harmon remembers Jack Kerouac (Kerouac Society); Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

How to USE suffering: Ajahn Chah

Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org) via Ven. Sujato, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Quit it, Lisa. - You quit it, Richard.

(Ajahn Chah) My way of training people involves some suffering [disappointment, pain], because suffering is the Buddha’s path to enlightenment.

He wanted us to see suffering [so that we'll let go of it and its causes] and to see [its] origination, cessation, and the path [to liberation from all suffering]. This is the way out for all the ariya [noble persons], the awakened ones.

If we don’t go this way, there is no way out. The only way is knowing suffering, knowing the cause of suffering, knowing the cessation of suffering, and knowing the path-of-practice leading to the cessation of suffering. This is the way that the ariya, beginning with [the first stage of enlightenment called] stream entry, were able to escape [all suffering]. It’s necessary to know suffering.

Worldly "success"?

(Jack Kerouac) "‘Vanity of vanities…all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success,’ the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horsesh*t."

Buddhist-Catholic Jack Kerouac (audio)

Gerald Nicosia, Mitch Jeserich (KPFA.org, 9/4/19); CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Gerald Nicosia, author of Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century, explains the influential American Buddhist writer of Dharma Bums, the myth, and the controversy over his stolen estate. He wrote at least nine books but was rarely studied or taken seriously by academia. Letters & Politics Host Mitch Jeserich digs (KPFA.org) into the mystery. LISTEN

• LIVE: Gerald Nicosia, San Francisco Library, 9/17/19

Kerouac: The Last Qtr. Century

In his latest book, Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century, Gerald Nicosia takes a comprehensive look at Jack Kerouac’s legacy -- how he went from a fading leader of Beatniks, with most of his books out of print, to the pinnacle he occupies today, universally considered one of the top American writers of the 20th century.

Nicosia is one of Kerouac’s great champions, but he also looks at the dark side.  He examines the in-laws who control Kerouac’s estate today: They forged a will. It's an incredible story that has been kept under wraps for a decade. What happened to Kerouac's real family, his daughter Jan, his sister Caroline and her family? This book has lots of new pictures. And it looks at posthumously published works as well as the fate of Kerouac's archives.

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Are we animals or "fallen angels"? (video)

Funny Pets; Jack Kerouac; Dhr. Seven, Ellie Askew, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

You won't remember time spent working in the office...Climb that goddamn mountain!

Jack Kerouac by Tom Palumbo circa 1956

American Buddhist Jack Kerouac asked: "Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?"

We are not mere animals. For we have the power to choose (in a moral dimension), to act or refrain from acting regardless of what provokes us -- and these volitional actions are our karma, which makes our future. We are reborn countless times according to our deeds.

Karma is made by the intention behind deeds.

Karma -- it's everywhere we're going to be. In Buddhist terms, we are surely more "fallen angels" (devas) of a sort, evolving and devolving, if the Buddhist Genesis (Agganna Sutra) account is to be taken literally.

JACK WHO-A-WHACK? Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American novelist and poet considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. He is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose, covering topics such as Buddhism, drugs, Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beat poets, a progenitor of the hippie movement. Since his death his literary prestige has grown, and previously unseen work has been published. He wrote, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, and much more.