Americana Kōans: Doc Kelley on the 'Dead to Me' Podcast
Let’s take a trip—way, way back to April 2019—and revisit Doc Kelley’s appearance on the Dead to Me podcast. Doc and DTM host Casey Rae take a deep dive into the “many real world connections” between Buddhism and the Grateful Dead. Also, songwriter and music journalist David Gans pops in to premiere a new song.
Doc Kelley: “If there is such a thing as an American Zen, then I think its roots have to include the Grateful Dead in some way.”
Doc Kelley: “As you get older, you don’t just become a connoisseur, you suffer, and your pain enables you to appreciate art—art and music, art and spirituality, the art of life.”
Doc Kelley: “What we’re doing is actually very Middle Way … What we’re preaching is not drugs, it’s not meditation, it’s the skillful integration of both of those things, which I think is very reflective of where we are in history.”
Casey Rae, quoting Dōgen: “To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.”
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