From Ram Dass' Be Here Now:
"After all day long of doing my dramas with the Health Department and so on, it came time for lunch. I had been on this very fierce austere diet and I had lost 60 lbs. I was feeling great - very light and very beautiful - but there was enough orality still left in me to want to have a feast. I'll have a vegetarian feast, I thought. So I went to a fancy vegetarian restaurant and I got a table over in a corner and ordered their special deluxe vegetarian dinner, from nuts to nuts, and I had the whole thing and the last thing they served was vegetarian ice cream with 2 english biscuits stuck into it. And those biscuits ... the sweet thing has always been a big part of my life, but I knew somehow, maybe I shouldn't be eating those. Theyr'e so far out from my diet. It's not vegetables - it's not rice. And so I was almost secretly eating the cookies in this dark corner. I was feeling very guilty about eating these cookies. But nobody was watching me. And then I went to a Buddhist monastery for the night and the next day took the bus back up to the mountain.
Two days later, we heard Maharaji was back - he had been up in the mountains in another little village. He travels around a lot, moves from place to place. I hadn't seen him in about a month and a half - I didn't see much of him at all. We all went rushing to see Maharaji and I got a bag of oranges to bring to him and I came and took one look at him, and the oranges went flying and I started to cry and I fell down and they were patting me. Maharaji was eating oranges as fast as he could, manifesting through eating food the process of taking on the karma of someone else.
Women bring him food all day long. He just opens his mouth and they feed him and he's taking on karma that way. And he ate eight oranges right before my eyes. I had never seen anything like that. And the principal of the school was feeding me oranges and I was crying and the whole thing was very maudlin, and he pulls me by the hair, and I look up and he says to me, 'How did you like the biscuits?'"
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)
Tim, are you an Anglophile?
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)
I was in London last November and when I got off the plane at Heathrow, it felt very relaxing and pleasant to be in England.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)
Reminds me of a story a Hendrix sideman related of getting into a tussle with Jimi and going, "Don't ever fucking touch me, man!" and Hendrix replying, "I'll always touch you."
― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)