Hey Chodpa, You're right, I guess, getting hung up on not being able to sustain a proper routine of meditation isn't going to help.Maybe that's...
I would like to make some serious contacts with people practising Buddhism in the UK. My practice keeps coming up against a brick wall: initial...
Ego delusions are the cause of all the turmoil & sadness & general crap in the world. That's what started me meditating, so I could try to clear...
Well,I was posting in there anyway,regardless of the age rule.I just enjoyed finding out I technically shouldn't! But don't be too hard on...
Hey Joker, There's an English book called "Kith and Kin" edited by Barry Tebb from Sixties Press in the UK.Barry's wife and son both have severe...
Hey feelingroovy, Nice to make your acquaintance.I saw a snake in the Austrian mountains once,but we don't have a lot of that in the UK.Supposed...
Hello splittingweeds.Nice to meet you.I broke my guitar but I fit all the other categories.
Hey Satan.Your idea of evil was so much more impressive in the past - you know, the genocide of the American Indians, the concentration camps....
Hey sister, Every self-respecting hippie gets cooties every now & then.It's a badge of office. Have a good time here.Most of the people are really...
Hola stonefree.You're doing great with the english (it's a lot better than my spanish). Enjoy it here.
Likewise from me. Negativity sucks. (Bruce).
Gary has done some great books. But he says Japhy Ryder shouldn't be taken as too accurate a portrait of him: "'The Dharma Bums' is fiction," as...
Yeah Dreadie, it's a good spot. And the more of us who speak for the flying people and the four-legged people the better.
You're so sweet.
You stopped smoking? Good for you.It takes balls to go against the grain.To me this Beat-hippie thing is about being your own person,finding your...
Hey,I just read the rules for the Old Hippie forum and found out I'm not old enough to participate! This was such a pleasant discovery I thought...
Jill, Oh,yeah,of course Neil's Canadian! Ooops.So were most of the Band,right? Muhammad Ali came out with the greatest quote of his generation,as...
I always avoided Shakespeare because they pushed him on us so hard at school, but I've gotten back into it this year. Currently reading "King...
"Dharma Bums" is brilliant - one of my favourite Kerouac books. I particularly like the part where Japhy talks about a "rucksack revolution",...
Hey Maia, I don't know what etheogenic means but I do like Fernando Pessoa.Welcome to the forums. Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs &...
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