Papillon Parade

Has anyone read any Lester Bangs books? I've been meaning to pick one up and was just wondering if anybody had any suggestions?

uuuuuuuuummmm..excuse me boys..but where exactly would these 34 pages of boys for the girls be??

Any Day Now - Elbow

Any day now how's about getting out of this place.

Any ways.

Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.

What's got into me? Can't believe myself!

Must be someone else. Must be.

Don't play Coltrane you will sleep at the wheel

Eyes on-horizon. Don't sleep at the wheel.

this kinda reminds me of something jack kerouac would say. if you read his essays "some of the dharma" he mentions that he needed to stay away from this type of thing (drugs/ alcohol) then almost contradicted himself by saying that it was ok to drink only while alone and that the ol' buddhist monks use to drink while working the fields

Kerouac wrote On The Road in three weeks drinking a steady cocktail of benzedrine and coffee. He also experimented with psilocybin and marijuana. Also, his death was caused by cirrhosis of the liver as a result of a life of drinking heavily

that's a tough question

 

a good general primer is Kornfield's a path with heart.

 

if you're interested in reading the actual word's of the Buddha , my teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi's anthology is excellent. It's called In the words of the Buddha .

 

better yet, poke around at www.accesstoinsight.org or http://www.abhayagiri.org/index.php/main/books. Both have about a million free books which are more than enough for one to get enlightened, or at least figure out what kinds of books they like to read

Thanks a bunch

 

this is one of those subjects that really showed how far off the mark Tricycle is in understanding the Dharma.

 

the entire premise of the book is wrong:

 

the fifth precept is:

 

I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

 

not 'I vow to only take intoxicating drinks and drugs that I imagine will open my conciousness (read: those I like),' but 'intoxicating drinks and drugs.'

 

After having been a subscriber since issue 1 I canceled by tricycle subscription over their issue on this topic.

 

if one is taking drugs and calling it Buddhism their posturing....no other way around it.

Gershon, thanks for your insight. I'll keep it in mind as I finish the book. I have only just begun reading about Buddhism and thought the book looked interesting. Any books you could recommend??

Great book all around. Started it a few months ago but then life got hectic and put it down for a while.

"The use of psychedelic drugs is that dark little secret behind the popular origins of Eastern spirituality in America, but if they really open the mind in the same ways meditative experiences do, why shouldn't they be legitimated and brought out into the open?"

Well I'm goin' out west

Where the wind blows tall

'Cause Tony Franciosa

Used to date my ma

They got some money out there

They're giving it away

I'm gonna do what I want

Do what I want

And I'm gonna get paid

Little brown sausages

Lying in the sand

I ain't no extra baby

I'm a leading man

Well my parole officer

WIll be proud of me

With my Olds 88

And the devil on a leash

My Olds 88

And the devil on a leash

Well I know karate, Voodoo too

I'm gonna make myself available to you

I don't need no make up

I got real scars

I got hair on my chest

I look good without a shirt

Well I don't lose my composure

In a high speed chase

Well my friends think I'm ugly

I got a masculine face

I got some dragstrip courage

I can really drive a bed

I'm gonna change my name

To Hannibal or maybe

Just Rex

Change my name to Hannibal

Or maybe just Rex

I'm gonna drive all night

Take some speed

I'm gonna wait for the sun

To shine down on me

I cut a hole in my roof

In the shape of a heart

And I'm goin' out west

Where they'll appreciate me

Goin' out west

Goin' out west