Body Links

Set up for open house on Saturday.

Deeply saddened by the passing of Bob Thurman yesterday. He of course was exhilarated by the inevitable, a subject he taught about at length, as it's so central to Tibetan Buddhism. A student once commented "You make dying sound like so much fun, I can’t wait to try it!" "I urged her not to think like that! as there's no rush." Learning to die, is, ultimately learning to live.

In 2021 Thurman wrote: “Allen Ginsberg – is an extraordinary being”. “I met him in the ‘Sixties when I was still a Tibetan monk, when we worked on translating a certain Tibetan song. He had found profound things in India before me, and had extraordinary creative energy. We kept bumping into each other over the years sharing a determination to discover more of the truth and beauty of our infiniverse. A last memory was a call in the post midnight hour in the same morning when he passed. He was leaving a message on the answering machine which my wife Nena heard and woke me to rush and pick up the phone to touch base with Allen, who said he wanted to thank me for introducing him to Tibetan Buddhism, meeting and learning from his teachers, Trungpa Rimpoche and Gelek Rimpoche. What he most wanted me to know was that he was in the process of dying and was not in the slightest bit afraid, he would have liked to hang for longer but he was totally ready for the adventure and was himself amazed and delighted about the lived fact of it. I thanked him for all he had given, wished him the very best, and told him I hoped I could recognize him when we meet again in our future lives and could pick up our unfinished translation work. We both laughed.”

For more here's our post for his birthday August 3, 2022
https://allenginsberg.org/2022/08/w-a-3-2/

Is there a practitioner here on Jackson that does Rolfing or Heller work?

AMEN

My first borns birthday gathering. 🎂