Image: Allen Ginsberg in New York City, 1953, taken by William S. Burroughs
Buddhism's Radical Contribution
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central philosophy [of Buddhism] is compassion rather than the
Darwinian notion of survival of the fittest. The central notion is
giving your space rather than clinging to your space and making it
secure. It seems to me Buddhism has a tremendous amount of wisdom to
contribute right now to the huge world life political dilemma, i.e.,
what are the limits of compassion? What are the limits in our
relationship to chaos and how do we relate to chaos? Right now,
politically speaking, basic Buddhist notions are really radically
different from the general popular philosophy of life that is taken for
granted among intellectuals, even liberal intellectuals.
- Allen Ginsberg, "Spontaneous Intelligence" |
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