Welcome You Hungry Ghost
Channel: SatoriD
Date: 26/01/2023

Allen Ginsberg's Opening Address at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Welcome you hungry ghost, Diamond writers, tender hearts, the experience of tender heart. Art Heart Tenderness. 

Naropa Institute was the first Buddhist-inspired university in the West, and within it, the Jack Kerouac School was also a first in bringing together the study of Buddhism and poetry at the nexus of mindfulness. This connection is clearly articulated in the school’s 1974 mission statement: “There being no party line but mindfulness of thought and language itself, no conflict need arise between religion and poetry.” With this core value, students studied more than solely Buddhist poetry, such as Japanese haiku or tantric dohas, nor was the curriculum dedicated exclusively to Beat poets and writers. Instead, the department had a wider emphasis on Eastern and Western spontaneous composition, as well as writing reflecting the author’s awareness of their own mind. There were classes in the Modernists James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. Ginsberg taught from the Norton Anthology of English Literature, and Waldman from the international anthology Technicians of the Sacred. 

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