General-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

> For those who do not understand.....

Exactly.

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