Re: NBC: is any one here a fan of Leonard Cohen?


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>>>> "Susan" <frogandtoad61@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>> ruth wrote:
>>>>>> Suzanne was my favorite song when I was 16. I still get all weepy
>>>>>> when
>>>>>> I hear it. I knew this amazing girl who sang it beautifully - she was
>>>>>> our town's first hippie and I longed to be her. Judy Collins "In My
>>>>>> Life" album had a couple of Cohen songs on it . What a fabulous album
>>>>>> that was ...introduced me to Cohen, Randy Newman and Jacques Brel.
>>>>>> Dasm.
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>>>>> I have a Best Of Lp by Judy Collins called Colors of the Day (from
>>>>> 1972) which was my introduction to Cohen, I'm sure. It has Suzanne on
>>>>> it. I recently found a cover by Peter Gabriel of Suzanne that is
>>>>> beautiful-been listening to it most mornings lately. But that Judy
>>>>> Collins album is wonderful-her covers of Someday Soon, Who Knows Where
>>>>> the Time Goes, In My LIfe and Amazing Grace are incredible.
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>>>>> Something I've always wondered about Cohen-is he/was he a Christian?
>>>>> Or is he just enamored with Christian imagery, much like Bruce?
>>>>> thanks, if anyone knows.
>>>>>
>>>>> susan
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>>>> Leonard Cohen was born to Jewish parents, and practices a form of
>>>> Buddhism.
>>>> However, his influences were many, apparently. . .both sacred and
>>>> profane, from what I can make of it.
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>>> Further checking provides that while Cohen, who was raised in a
>>> religious, Jewish family in Montreal, was briefly
>>> a Buddhist Monk in the 70's (hell, it was fashionable, I suppose) he
>>> commented that he still practiced Judaism, and was
>>> quite happy with his "old" religion, meaning Judaism.
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>> All due respect, you need more up to date sources.
>> Cohen was a DEVOUT Buddhist through the late 90's and the first few years
>> of this century, living as an acolyte at the Mount Baldy Zen Centre. He
>> lived a spartan, austere existence, coming down occasionally to release
>> the music that he recorded in his room at the centre. A few months ago
>> he came down more permanently, only to find that his business manager
>> had -- allegedly -- liberated millions of his dollars, leaving him
>> virtually nothing. He's currently embroiled in a number of lawsuits in
>> an attempt to regain some of his savings.
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> Yeah, there's nothing that will take you out of your zen quicker than
> being broke, Robert.

I dunno - I think he's missed out on some valuable teachings about
materialism and such. After all, if life is suffering, rooted in desire,
them getting ripped off by your manager -- who you used to sleep with --
must have some significance, no?


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