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John

drupgyu

About Me

I am an African-American Buddhist (Kagyu/Nyingma) with experience in and respect for other religious traditions. I have done stand-up, lived at a retreat center (Lama Foundation), love to write and practice Kung Fu

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My Interests

Kung Fu, Buddhism, Comic books, Indie films, Transpersonal Art, Integral Studies, World History, Kerouac, Poetry, all genres of music, haiku, screenwriting, my band Amygdala, politics, eastern/western philosophy

I'd like to meet:

Cool people, writers, Buddhists, mystics of all stripes, political folks, comedians and philosophers.

Music:

Here are my top 30 in no particular order: Beatles, Led Zepplin, De La Soul, Slayer, Cream, Clash, Smiths, Cure, Bauhaus, Who, Public Enemy, Tribe Called Quest, Hendrix, David Bowie, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Velvet Underground, Black Sabbath, James Brown, Parliament/Funkadelic, Prince, Stooges, U2, Mars Volta, Allman Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Bad Brains, Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Johnny Cash.

Movies:

My top 30 in no particular order: Repo Man, Big Lebowski, Deer Hunter, Raise the Red Lantern, Caddyshack, Blue Velvet, Drugstore Cowboy, Interiors, Manhattan, Kundun, Enter the Dragon, Hairspray, Taxi Driver, Lone Star, Koyannisqatsi, Empire Strikes Back, Audition, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, the Jerk, Pulp Fiction, Halloween, Dr. Strangelove, Mystery Train, Do the Right Thing, Blade Runner, Seven Samurai, Logans Run, Last Waltz, The Wall

Television:

A few of note: Twin Peaks, Lost, Arrested Developments, My Name is Earl, Real Time with Bill Maher, Entourage, Six Feet Under, Sanford and Son, SNL, CSI (Las Vegas only), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Office(both versions), Angel, Star Trek the Next Generation, Simpsons, Family Guy, Boondocks.

Books:

TOO MANY TO NAME!!! (Here are some) Slaughterhouse Five, Siddhartha, On the Road, Cutting Thru Spiritual Materialism, Brief History of Everything, Indestructible Truth, Miles, Peoples History of the United States, Invisible Man, Autobiography of Malcolm X, the Stranger, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Path with a Heart, Be Here Now, Food of the Gods, Sex Ecology & Spirituality, Ragtime, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, What the Buddha Taught, any by Nietzsche

Heroes:

Spider-man, Superman, Bat-Man, Hulk, Gandhi, Ramkrishna, Nagarjuna, Buddha, St. John of the Cross, Padmasambhava, Jesus, Flash, Allen Ginsberg, MLK, Malcolm X, Krishna, Ramana Maharshi, John the Baptist, Chogyam Trungpa, Stan Lee, Wil Eisner, Alan Moore, anyone who stands up for truth.

My Blog

What the @.$% is an Integral Practice anyway?! Part 1

We Westerners, and by Westerners I mean those of us who are a product of Western culture (Greeks, Newton, British Enlightenment, Nihilism etc) are lucky. Very lucky. How are we lucky you might ask? LE...
Posted by John on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:27:00 PST

The Inciter

Okay, so this is my first blog. The Age of Aquarius was not going to be about dancing in the park singing songas while wearing paisley printed synthetic fabrics. No dear reader, it is about the spread...
Posted by John on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:02:00 PST