Sunday surprise – Dylan and the Bauls
That hint was enough. Siddhartha grasped from those words the essence of the teaching he was to make famous as the Middle Way, set aside his austerities as he had earlier set aside his princely status, and in short order attained enlightenment — becoming Gautama Buddha, one of the great masters of our age.
h/t 3 Quarks Daily
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Grurray:
July 20th, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Dylan never went to India like the Beatles or recorded Indian influenced songs, but he did have his own sort of enlightenment, finding the middle way in his music between his folk sound and his electric sound just before he recorded that album.
His first few albums were acoustic folk songs, but then after feeling he’d taken the ‘spokesman of a generation’ act as far as it could go, switched to rock albums. The rock albums vaulted him to superstardom, where he was universally praised and denounced and torn in a hundred different directions all at the same time. It all came tumbling down when he crashed his motorcycle and then decided he would leave the pretensions, excesses, and fame all behind, which for him meant going to Nashville.