艾伦·金斯伯格与佛禅的因缘是偶然中的必然。这与其自身的生活经历、社会环境、文学和文化背景相关联。大学时初结佛缘,后在与东西海岸的师友交往中佛缘渐深,以至亲自到印度、中国学佛参禅,最终皈依佛门,信奉持受一直到生命的最后。在佛禅的因缘中,威廉·布莱克的声音穿越时空开启他灵性的顿悟;在禅悦的人生中,他随缘任运,融通诗禅的自发写作表现出感悟生活真实的诗禅美学;在禅悟的人生中,他慈悲为怀利益众生,超越生死而最终回归生命的真实性。
Allen Ginsburg''s affinity with Zen Buddhism is the inevitable of contingency, which is related to his own life experience, social environment, literary and cultural contexts. He begins to learn about Zen Buddhism at Columbia University. His belief in it deepens as he is in more contact with his friends on the east and west coasts of America. As a result, he goes to such Buddhist countries as India and China to learn Buddhism and practise meditation. He finally converts to Buddhism, piously believing in it until his death. In his Zen affinity, William Blake''s voice across space and time initiates his spiritual enlightenment; In his happy life of meditation, he is absolutely at ease with everything, and his spontaneous writing integrating Zen with poetry exposes his poetry-Zen aesthetics in perceiving the real life; In his lightening life, he has compassion for the interests of the worldly, and transcends life and death, ultimately returns to his true Self.
