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...book reading list stunned and amused a good many of the students. The list includes classical philosophy such as Aristotle's Ethics and Plato's Dialogues as well as many more modern works on the religous philosophies of Zen, Buddhism, and Yoga. The 24 texts cost $49.70 at the Coop...
...Castaneda's dependence on Western rationality. To become a "man of knowledge," one must learn "not doing" until one can "stop the world" and, finally, "see." These elusive concepts are cornerstones in the life Don Juan is teaching--that of a warrior. The chapter titles read like a Zen training manual: "Erasing Personal History," "Losing Self-Importance," "Disrupting the Routines of Life" and so on. When the two men journey to the desert or the mountains to practice these teachings, Castaneda must become involved or be crushed by Don Juan's "stupendous, awesome" world...
However, with this book, Castaneda seems well on his way to creating a new mythology designed for the Western hemisphere. Don Juan's teachings can be analyzed as a melange of Zen, Sufism, the dream control of Tibetan Buddhism, and other disciplines. But this essentially Eastern message is transmitted by a member of the fierce Yaquis of northern Mexico, the only unconquered tribe of North America. Don Juan is no pacifist and no vegetarian--he is a warrior. The natural world of predator and prey is his pantheon: the cactus, rattlesnake, coyote, mountain lion--all of which are equal...
Kerouac, the author of On the Road, the Jack that journalism built into the king of the Beat Generation and the Zen terror of the transcontinental blacktop, sat passively in the passenger's seat and watched his life, reflected in the American landscape, go by like so many flaking Burma Shave signs. "I'm doomed to these universal watchfulnesses," he wrote, though not as effortlessly as Kerouac readers were once led to believe. Author Charters dispels the popular misconception that On the Road leaped spontaneously out of Kerouac's head and onto the 120-ft. roll...
...this literature new, but innovative. I'm aware of the changes, through my own children, and teaching I sense changes through what I see and read, and through personal contact. I sense a quieting mood, more reflective soul-searching. Related to this are religious activities, whether based on Zen or Jesus Christ. Young people in college are still up against the problem of what to do once they get out into the real world, and how to do it. They're thinking about how to conduct their lives in what is a difficult society, a difficult world...