The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.”
Jack Kerouac • The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“This is the way I like it, when you get going there’s just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy.”
Jack Kerouac • The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Alan Watts, Zen and the Beat Way. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle, 1997.
Jack Kerouac • The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, ed. Carole Tonkinson. New York: Berkley, 1995.