Will Dockery wrote:
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Will Dockery wrote:
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Zod-The...@none..i2p wrote:
Beatnik Buddhism in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=engl_fac
******** "Pastoral and Utopia, Visionary Conceptions of the Good Life." >>>>> This book's
triumphant celebration of free love, wilderness adventures, bohemian >>>>> companionship, and Buddhist
meditation made a perfect fit.
************Kerouac discovered Buddhism by way of Henry David Thoreau: >>>>> "Well I went to the library to read
Thoreau. I said, 'I'm going to cut out from civilization and go back and >>>>> live in the woods like
Thoreau.' And I started to read Thoreau and he talked about Hindu
philosophy. So I put Thoreau down
and I took out, accidentally, The Life of Buddha by Ashvagosa."
***********This led him to Dwight Goddard's 1932 collection of Classic >>>>> sutras, The Buddhist Bible, bound with leather, carried in his rucksack, >>>>> studied methodically, quoted and paraphrased,
and publicized among his friends and later to readers of The Dharma
Bums.[
**************The words of the book's title, Dharma Bums, epitomize Beat >>>>> spirituality. The pairing of Classical Sanskrit
and contemporary American slang typifies the Beats' yoking of sacred and >>>>> profane, exalted and base, the
law and the outlaw. Kerouac draws attention to the phrase several times >>>>> near the beginning of the book:
at this time I was a perfect Dharma Bum myself and considered myself a >>>>> religious wanderer
the little St. Teresa bum [whom he encounters hopping a freight from >>>>> L.A. to Santa Barbara] was
the first genuine Dharma Bum I'd met, and the second was the number one >>>>> Dharma Bum of them
all and in fact it was he, Japhy Ryder, who coined the phrase
http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/en/index.php?cat=11
I'd read this as a teenager in HS and never figured out why it was
popular at all. Then again, it serves the same purpose as Canteloupe Caligula, it's used by some lazy white trash to justify being a furthwer drain on society.
It encouraged drunken hacks like Bukowski
Beatnik Buddhism in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=engl_fac
******** "Pastoral and Utopia, Visionary Conceptions of the Good Life."
This book's
triumphant celebration of free love, wilderness adventures, bohemian
companionship, and Buddhist
meditation made a perfect fit.
************Kerouac discovered Buddhism by way of Henry David Thoreau:
"Well I went to the library to read
Thoreau. I said, 'I'm going to cut out from civilization and go back and
live in the woods like
Thoreau.' And I started to read Thoreau and he talked about Hindu
philosophy. So I put Thoreau down
and I took out, accidentally, The Life of Buddha by Ashvagosa."
***********This led him to Dwight Goddard's 1932 collection of Classic
sutras, The Buddhist Bible, bound with leather, carried in his
rucksack, studied methodically, quoted and paraphrased,
and publicized among his friends and later to readers of The Dharma
Bums.[
**************The words of the book's title, Dharma Bums, epitomize Beat
spirituality. The pairing of Classical Sanskrit
and contemporary American slang typifies the Beats' yoking of sacred and
profane, exalted and base, the
law and the outlaw. Kerouac draws attention to the phrase several times
near the beginning of the book:
at this time I was a perfect Dharma Bum myself and considered myself a
religious wanderer.(5)
[10]
the little St. Teresa bum [whom he encounters hopping a freight from
L.A. to Santa Barbara] was
the first genuine Dharma Bum I'd met, and the second was the number one
Dharma Bum of them
all and in fact it was he, Japhy Ryder, who coined the phrase
************************
Zod wrote:
ktell...@gmail.com wrote:
Zod wrote:
Beatnik Buddhism in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=engl_fac
******** "Pastoral and Utopia, Visionary Conceptions of the Good Life." >>>> This book's
triumphant celebration of free love, wilderness adventures, bohemian
companionship, and Buddhist
meditation made a perfect fit.
************Kerouac discovered Buddhism by way of Henry David Thoreau: >>>> "Well I went to the library to read
Thoreau. I said, 'I'm going to cut out from civilization and go back and >>>> live in the woods like
Thoreau.' And I started to read Thoreau and he talked about Hindu
philosophy. So I put Thoreau down
and I took out, accidentally, The Life of Buddha by Ashvagosa."
***********This led him to Dwight Goddard's 1932 collection of Classic >>>> sutras, The Buddhist Bible, bound with leather, carried in his
rucksack, studied methodically, quoted and paraphrased,
and publicized among his friends and later to readers of The Dharma
Bums.[
**************The words of the book's title, Dharma Bums, epitomize Beat >>>> spirituality. The pairing of Classical Sanskrit
and contemporary American slang typifies the Beats' yoking of sacred and >>>> profane, exalted and base, the
law and the outlaw. Kerouac draws attention to the phrase several times >>>> near the beginning of the book:
at this time I was a perfect Dharma Bum myself and considered myself a >>>> religious wanderer.(5)
[10]
the little St. Teresa bum [whom he encounters hopping a freight from
L.A. to Santa Barbara] was
the first genuine Dharma Bum I'd met, and the second was the number one >>>> Dharma Bum of them
all and in fact it was he, Japhy Ryder, who coined the phrase
************************
So emulate Kerouac and read about Buddhism:
http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/en/index.php?cat=11
Zod emulates Kerouac
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