Once someone can leave aside the narrowminded attitude, a parallelism with the cultural outcome of the long-gone “counterculture”, and a few more notions considering guidelines for every-day afterglow, one can proceed step by step to the authentic study of the oriental classics, Zen or Buddhist literature, etc. To find what? Pure nothing. Only what is not there, and that … [Read more...]
What to Wake Up For
It lifts me from sleep, from hot wind dream A mute sun in the never winter morning A thought - someone anywhere, you, may read this … [Read more...]
How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life
When I was twenty-two, I was lucky enough to be the only South African on an American college campus, studying creative writing and trying to figure out what to do with my life (along with every other college student, it seems). One chilly fall day, I signed up for a course that unwittingly changed my life: an in-depth seminar on Jack Kerouac. I had read On the Road, of … [Read more...]
