Reading between stepmother Edith, and father Louis under portrait of Swami Muktanda, 1971. Never could to locate where this was shot or by whom. Allen had been a student of Muktananda for one year 1970-71 before connecting with Trunpa, Rinpoche. The poem Guru OM, October 1970, was the result of a several day meditation retreat with him in Dallas. (photo courtesy Ginsberg Collection)
“By 1970 I met Swami Muktananda Paramahansa at an interesting meeting with Ram Dass, Muktananda, and Satchidananda, all of them sitting up on the altar at Universalist Church, Central Park. Swami M. invited me to come down to Dallas. I had nothing better to do, so I went down to Dallas, registered in the hotel where he was staying, and then he had the sense to say, “What kind of practice do you know, or do you have practice?” I said, “No, I don’t.” He said, “Why don’t you go to your room and sit and meditate using a mantra GURU OM at your heart level, using that on your breath.” “ (Ginsberg, ‘Vomit of a mad Tyger’)
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