The Burning Hand Beat
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Refueling a contemplative, curious, creative, and compassionate counterculture
where men are nonviolent, women are free, and everyone is wanted.
Edited by Robert Daniel Smith, Poet, Dharma Bum, Catholic Worker,
Gandhian-Quaker-Personalist, Divine Mother Devotee,
Student of Saint Paramahansa Yogananda
Companion of the Way
Sacred Activist
"I promise to be the best lover and defender of Mother Earth that I can be."
Vow of the Order of the Sacred Earth Adjectives: Both / Neither
The Perennial Philosophy
1) There is an infinite, changeless, reality
beneath-within the world of change.
2) This same reality lies at the core of
every human being.
3) The purpose of life is to discover this
reality experientially: that is, to realize
the Primordial Consciousness of Being
while alive on this plane of existence.
My love is plural and infinite. -- Rosalia Vila Tobella
Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said: Father,
according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my
little fast, my prayer, meditation, and contemplative
silence; and according as I am able I strive to cleanse
my heart of thoughts: now what more should I do?
The elder rose up in reply and stretched out his hands
to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of
fire. He said: Why not be totally changed into fire?
Let the Beauty you love be what you do. -- Rumi
We were created by Love, for Love, to become Love. -- Simone Weil
Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.
-- George Fox
The primary aspiration of all history is a genuine community of human beings -- genuine because
it is community all through. -- Martin Buber
One must be overawed by the marvel of time to be ready to perceive the presence of eternity
in a single moment. One must live and act as if the fate of all time would depend on a
single moment. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The love religion is all that is written here. -- Rumi
Stop demonizing pleasure... love up on each other...
-- adrienne maree brown
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!
-- Jesus
Viewspaper
Refueling a contemplative, curious, creative, and compassionate counterculture
where men are nonviolent, women are free, and everyone is wanted.
Edited by Robert Daniel Smith, Poet, Dharma Bum, Catholic Worker,
Gandhian-Quaker-Personalist, Divine Mother Devotee,
Student of Saint Paramahansa Yogananda
Companion of the Way
Sacred Activist
"I promise to be the best lover and defender of Mother Earth that I can be."
Vow of the Order of the Sacred Earth Adjectives: Both / Neither
The Perennial Philosophy
1) There is an infinite, changeless, reality
beneath-within the world of change.
2) This same reality lies at the core of
every human being.
3) The purpose of life is to discover this
reality experientially: that is, to realize
the Primordial Consciousness of Being
while alive on this plane of existence.
My love is plural and infinite. -- Rosalia Vila Tobella
Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said: Father,
according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my
little fast, my prayer, meditation, and contemplative
silence; and according as I am able I strive to cleanse
my heart of thoughts: now what more should I do?
The elder rose up in reply and stretched out his hands
to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of
fire. He said: Why not be totally changed into fire?
Let the Beauty you love be what you do. -- Rumi
We were created by Love, for Love, to become Love. -- Simone Weil
Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.
-- George Fox
The primary aspiration of all history is a genuine community of human beings -- genuine because
it is community all through. -- Martin Buber
One must be overawed by the marvel of time to be ready to perceive the presence of eternity
in a single moment. One must live and act as if the fate of all time would depend on a
single moment. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The love religion is all that is written here. -- Rumi
Stop demonizing pleasure... love up on each other...
-- adrienne maree brown
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!
-- Jesus
Wild Thought Fueling Station: Manifesto
personalist communitarian unitary nonviolent pansacramental
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential
than our notions of him. -- Lucretia Mott
The "kingdom of God" proclaimed by Jesus implies the
resurrection of the agrarian village, free of civilized oppression.
The feral males who continue to own and operate corporate civilization
need the domesticating and gentling embrace of the feminine village.
-- Paul Gilk
Truth will not lose ground by being tried. -- Isaac Pennington
See the world as a continuous field of matter and energy.
-- Eknath Easwaran
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum that calls us to that. -- Rumi
Forming the new society in the shell of the old. -- IWW
It is the opportunity, and the challenge, for both women and men to
construct for ourselves and our children a world where pleasure rather
than pain can be primary -- a world where we can be both more free
and more interconnected, integrating spirituality and sexuality in a
new, more evolved understanding of and reverence for the miracles
of life and love. -- Riane Eisler
Poetry is the heart of the world. -- Tsung Tsai
Our strategy should not only to confront empire but to lay
siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it.
With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our
joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness -- and our ability
to tell our own stories. -- Arundhati Roy
It was Japhy standing on top of Matterhorn Peak letting out his
triumphant mountain-conquering Buddha Mountain Smashing song
of joy. -- Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)
Simple Gifts
'Tis the gift to be simple
'Tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down
where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves
in the place just right
'Twill be in the valley of love
and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend
we will not be ashamed
To turn, turn will be our delight
'Till by turning, turning
we come round right.
-- Shaker Hymn
Mystery and reality emerge from the same source. -- Lao Tzu
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- St. John Chrysostom
Come, come, whoever you are
wanderer, fire worshiper, lover of leaving.
This is not a caravan of despair.
It does not matter that you have broken your vow
a thousand times, still come
and yet again come.
-- Rumi
As we grow in consciousness, there will be more compassion and
more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions,
between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the
separateness. -- Ram Dass
In the ultimate reality, the whole is present in every part
and every part participates in the being of the whole.
-- Fr. Bede Griffith
Life is holy, and every moment is precious. -- Jack Kerouac
We are Earthseed
The life that perceives itself
Changing.
-- Octavia Butler
Drink all your passion and be a disgrace. -- Rumi
If you want to become whole, first let yourself become broken.
-- Lao Tzu
(Hence, "Broken-Vase Taoism)
Belief initiates and guides action -- Or it does nothing.
-- Octavia Butler
Beat doesn't mean tired, or bushed, so much as it means beato, the Italian
for beatific: to be in a state of beatitude, like St. Francis, trying to love all
life, trying to be utterly sincere with everyone, practicing endurance,
kindness, cultivating joy of heart... What are you searching for? they asked
me. I answered that I was waiting for God to show his face.
-- Jack Kerouac
All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. -- Henry Miller
Matter is pregnant with divinity. -- R. Melvin Keiser
Poets and dreamers and madmen, using language which was
clear, clear, clear. A language necessary to the life below our consciousness.
-- Anais Nin
I learned the sweetness of God in the aspect of Mother, or Divine Mercy.
-- Saint Paramahansa Yogananda
Embrace simplicity.
Put others first.
Desire little.
-- Lao Tzu
Time to ignore sensible advice, to untie the knots our culture has tied us with. -- Rumi
The needs of the planet are the needs of the person,
and the rights of the person are the rights of the planet.
-- Theodore Roszak
I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life. -- Zoe Saldana
Beat: "Kerouac (in various interviews and lectures) was trying to indicate
the correct sense of the word by pointing out its connection to words like
'beatitude' and 'beatific' -- the necessary beatness or darkness that preceeds
opening up to light, egolessness, giving room for religious illumination."
-- Allen Ginsberg
Beat literature sings against cynicism, apathy, injustice, deception, compromise,
racism, consumerism, war, evils and cons of all kinds. -- Anne Waldman
THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST
THE IMAGINATION
-- Diane di Prima
The greatest challenge of the day is:
how to bring about a revolution of heart,
a revolution that has to start with each one of us.
-- Dorothy Day, Saint of the Gutter Beautiful
The Tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao.
-- Lao Tzu
The cosmos is an infinite and eternal intelligence... The ultimate purpose
of human existence is to consciously foster and further the transmission of the
unifying, embracing, and all-encompassing intelligence of the cosmos into the
universe. -- Ervin Laszlo
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!
-- Jesus
Saints of all religions have attained God-realization through the simple concept
of the Cosmic Beloved. -- Saint Paramahansa Yogananda
On the uneven floor
we all lie down in layers,
a hologram of lovers...
-- Hettie Jones
you are beautiful / you are beautiful
you are a hundred times beautiful...
-- Lenore Kandel
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit
on the body. -- Rumi
God is voluptuous and delicious! -- Meister Eckhart
Make love. Take a bath. Make love again. -- Frida Kahlo
I'm continually astonished that people really don't love each other.
How can they do it?
-- Jack Kerouac
The philosophy of Tao embodies a cosmology rooted in that most primal and
wondrous presence: earth's mysterious generative force... this venerable
generative force appears most explicitly in Lao Tzu's recurring references to the
female principle, such as "mother of all beneath heaven," "nurturing mother,"
"valley spirit," "dark female-enigma." -- David Hinton
Devotees of all the ages, approaching the Mother in a childlike spirit, testify that they find Her
ever at play. -- Saint Paramahansa Yogananda
We are clusters of vibration in-formed by the intelligence of the cosmos.
-- Ervin Laszlo
Every day: Chop Wood, Carry Water
-- Chinese Taoist Sage
Come to my home. I will make tea. Noodles. We can talk poetry. -- Tsung Tsai
All I know of spirit is this love. And do not call me a believer. Infidel is better.
-- Rumi
Our power is in our soils. They sustain our every need. They are the starting
place when we return to the land with a seed in hand.
-- Poppy Okotcha
And then I ate hot bread. -- Gertrude Stein
God is Alive, Magic is Afoot. -- Leonard Cohen
I am your Mother. -- Our Lady of Guadalupe
Tao Magic
A secret
kept
sweetly hidden
a talisman-magic
but of no divine
consequence
like a chickadee
in winter
bitter cold
vulnerable-powerless
but for brief flight
this is true Tao
secret-hidden-gone
who would dare
live such bold
powerless-vulnerability
like a shy bird
like crazy Tao-man
maybe wander
maybe sit by river
maybe garden
maybe turn Tao-trans
like Tara
maybe breastfeed
invisible realms
maybe turn great lover
living world-identification
maybe endless tears
living always-vulnerable
always-available
no dollars in this Tao
Green-Tara-Tao-Home
nothing do
smile-sip hot tea
Creation was fashioned to be adorned, to be showered, to be gifted with the love of the Creator. The entire world has been embraced by this kiss. Limitless love, from the depths to the stars, flooding all, loving all. It is the royal kiss of peace. God hugs you. You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God. -- St. Hildegard of Bingen
Imagine Paradise, Practice Beauty
We are put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.
-- William Blake
We were created by Love, for Love, to become Love. -- Simone Weil
Soul goes to the center. Rubies appear in the begging bowl. -- Rumi
The nonviolent voice of Gandhi appeals to man's highest conscience. Let nations ally themselves no longer
with death, but with life; not with destruction, but with construction; not with hate, but with the creative miracles
of love. -- Saint Paramahansa Yogananda
Suppose it never, ever comes true, and there is no paradise... well, I'll still go on preaching. And yet how simple a matter it is: in one day, in one hour it could all be brought about at once! The chief thing is to love others as oneself, that's the main thing, and that's it -- absolutely nothing more is necessary: you would immediately discover how to bring it about. -- Dostoevsky
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
-- Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is
companionship. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that
the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-- Dorothy Day, Saint of the Gutter Beautiful
The love religion is all that is written here. -- Rumi
Another world is not only possible, she's on her way.
Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on
a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her
breathing. -- Arundhati Roy
"Under your mercy we take refuge
Mother of God; may
our petitions not be abandoned
into temptation, but from danger
deliver us, only pure and blessed."
-- Prayer to Mary found in Egyptian papyrus fragments
from the year 250 AD
I am different from ordinary people.
I nurse from the Great Mother's breasts.
-- Lao Tzu
We are put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.
-- William Blake
We were created by Love, for Love, to become Love. -- Simone Weil
Soul goes to the center. Rubies appear in the begging bowl. -- Rumi
The nonviolent voice of Gandhi appeals to man's highest conscience. Let nations ally themselves no longer
with death, but with life; not with destruction, but with construction; not with hate, but with the creative miracles
of love. -- Saint Paramahansa Yogananda
Suppose it never, ever comes true, and there is no paradise... well, I'll still go on preaching. And yet how simple a matter it is: in one day, in one hour it could all be brought about at once! The chief thing is to love others as oneself, that's the main thing, and that's it -- absolutely nothing more is necessary: you would immediately discover how to bring it about. -- Dostoevsky
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
-- Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is
companionship. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that
the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-- Dorothy Day, Saint of the Gutter Beautiful
The love religion is all that is written here. -- Rumi
Another world is not only possible, she's on her way.
Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on
a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her
breathing. -- Arundhati Roy
"Under your mercy we take refuge
Mother of God; may
our petitions not be abandoned
into temptation, but from danger
deliver us, only pure and blessed."
-- Prayer to Mary found in Egyptian papyrus fragments
from the year 250 AD
I am different from ordinary people.
I nurse from the Great Mother's breasts.
-- Lao Tzu
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