I dedicate this poem to my wife, Sara

 

The Other Minds Archive

 I often listened to the Other Minds program on KPFA and now KALW. It stretches the mind and soul. Its archive announced a new online portal today and Joseph Bohigian interviewed the archivists for New Music about their site. I consider this a key milestone in modern classical and experimental music and I hope that you will enjoy it.

Sam Bercholz interview

 n the Seventies I was acquainted with Sam Bercholz, the owner of Shambhala Publications. I frequented his bookstore on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley and both businesses loomed large in my life. He was also a founder of the meditation center where I learned to meditate. Of course the publication of the book “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism” was the most important part of this story. Below is an interview with him and his son, Ivan, which I think is interesting. You might like it too. The reminder of impermanence and mortality is a strong and germane element here. As an aside, I’ll note that here I learned that Alan Watts, whose books first introduced me to Buddhism, was with Trungpa Rinpoche the last day of Alan’s life.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loveistheauthor/episodes/Episode-84---Samuel--Ivan-Bercholz-e2e2mpm