From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #229 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Saturday, August 12 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 229 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: got it [LCStanley7@aol.com] RE : Twisted about Twisted [Joseph Palis ] Non-Dual Joni ["S.A. Feite" ] "All I Want" is more Joni covers! [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:25:30 EDT From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: got it In a message dated 8/10/2006 6:35:34 P.M. Central Standard Time, guitarzan@hughes.net writes: No photos save the cover. Hi Randy, I noticed this right away and wished there were photos inside the book too. I wonder if they will put some in if there is a revision? It would really enhance the book. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:30:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: RE : Twisted about Twisted Wow, thanks for this info, Bob. Didn't know McKelle used to be a McElhatten. Although now that I say it out loud, I think McKelle sounds like a better version of her longer last name. One last thing, I also saw this link where a UPenn-based group (UPenn Counterparts) is doing an "All I want" but not sure if its Joni's. http://www.rarb.org/reviews/381.html Bob.Muller@Fluor.com a icrit : Joseph, Upon closer examination, the cover of "Twisted" is already in our database and collection. Robin must have changed her name from McElhatten to McKelle. If you look at the CD cover it still says 'Robin McElhatten'. This recording appeared on our Volume 15, compiled by Simon. 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Questions/Riponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos opinions et vos expiriences. Cliquez ici. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:58:55 -0400 From: "S.A. Feite" Subject: Non-Dual Joni Greetings: This is my first post here, I'd like to share a recent experience. I was just doing some research for a one hour radio special I did with radical Zen priest Kobutsu Malone here in Maine. Kobutsu, in addition to being trained as a traditional Zen priest, was also a line-holder from radical beat generation, 60's generation guru, Chogyam Trungpa's lineage. I remembered an old reference I had read in an interview about Joni's song "Refuge of the Road": "He was the bad boy of Zen. I wrote a song about a visit I made to him called "Refuge of the Road." I consider him one of my great teachers, even though I saw him only three times. Once I had a fifteen-minute audience with him in which we argued. He told me to quit analyzing. I told him I couldn't - I'm an artist, you know. Then he induced into me a temporary state where the concept of "I" was absent, which lasted for three days. [Later], at the very end of Trungpa's life I went to visit him. I wanted to thank him. He was not well. He was green and his eyes had no spirit in them at all, which sort of stunned me, because the previous times I'd seen him he was quite merry and puckish - you know, saying "shit" a lot. I leaned over and looked into his eyes, and I said, "How is it in there? What do you see in there? And this voice came, like, out of a void, and it said, "Nothing." So, I want over and whispered in his ear, "I just came to tell you that when I left you that time, I had three whole days without self consciousness, and I wanted to thank you for the experience." And he looked up at me, and all the light came back into his face and he goes, "Really?" And then he sank back into this black void again." Listening to it anew was a revelation. It was immediately clear to me what she was sharing here. Her last moments with one of the most radical spiritual masters of our time and a rare transmission. If you're trained in dharma, one word is immediately going to grab you, and that word is "refuge". Every Buddhist takes "refuge" in the awakening school when they begin the path, but *ultimate refuge* is refuge in ones own enlightened, ever-present Buddha-nature. Until the first Non-Dual Buddhist masters began coming the the US in the last 30 years, there were few who were capable of directly introducing students to this state of pure knowledge. It's called, in Tibetan "rigpa tsel wang": the transmission of the energy of the Non-Dual State. Most students wait many years to receive this opportunity. But in some cases, the state is very stable, and rather than being a momentary glimpse, it can last days. Everything appears as a manifestation of ones own interdependent arising, our own enlightenment energy. It's a state of Unity Consciousness and is naturally blissful once you grok how everything is, truly, interdependent and connected. Once one is certain about this non-dual state, one could take *refuge* in *anything*. Traditionally it would be the path, the road to enlightenment. But when one resides in the non-dual state, one could take *anything* as the path, even traveling on the open road. After all, "it's all *you*." I shared this with some friends, one who knows Joni from visits to a famous Mexican Brujo. When I contacted him, he was living in the south of France and his comments were to the effect 'I'm glad she had that experience (of the non-dual state), because when I met her in Mexico she clearly had a hard time not over-thinking things.' And the direct experience of our own nature is certainly one way to see beyond our own cage of thinking. Now we always have this precious gift of song to remind us of this most precious of human experiences. What a perfect setting, the spacious open tunings and voicings of Joni's acoustic guitar and song-craft Thanks Joni for reminding me of my own teacher. May all sentient beings be capable of taking refuge in their own nature in this way! Sincerely, Steve Bucksport, Maine ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:14:27 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: "All I Want" is more Joni covers! Although college acapella has given us a LOT of Joni covers, this is not one. It's a Toad The Wet Sprocket cover. But thanks for the lead just the same. I definitely can't keep up all by myself. Bob NP: Bonnie Raitt, "I Feel The Same" (maybe my favorite BR track, after "Midway", natch) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. 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