5/30/2023 0 Comments Jack kerouac some of the dharma![]() ![]() ![]() A pioneering Western-born exponent of Tibetan Buddhism, he's a child of the Beat generation. Robert Thurman thinks the two outlooks can be reconciled. Who's to say that his childhood faith is not incompatible with his love of Buddhism? It certainly mirrors the author's own awareness, at the height of his immersion Japhy in "DB" warns that "Ray" will revert to his Catholicism on his drunken deathbed. It's a serious, intense series of reflections, not of the author himself, but as a transparent medium transmitting the Buddha and his core dharma 2,500 years later. He collates a somewhat stilted, often moving, distilled version filtered through Kerouac's own practice of Buddhist "Law," as he puts it, or truth-teaching. My last entry reviewed " "The Dharma Bums," so I pair that with this 1955-penned, 2008-published meditation. ![]()
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