It’s not a whack on the side of the head. No, it’s more encompassing than that. It was an interactive talk with the noble goal of transforming you in three hours.
A few nights ago I heard Mel Ash, teacher and Beat author, give a workshop at The Beat Museum in San Francisco. In the audience were people who had never heard of Zen or the Beat Movement as well as those who had read Ash’s books and had been practicing Zen for years.
The topic was “Bay, Beats & Buddhism.” Ash covered a brief history of both the Beat movement and Zen Buddhism. He started off the evening by asking us to verb instead of noun – like instead of saying you’re “drinking coffee,” say you’re “caffeinating.”
Ash is author of several books (click on the titles it’ll take you to its link on amazon.com:
Shaving the Inside of Your Skull and
Ash has been sober for 27 years.
Check back here tomorrow for more about Ash’s presentation.
