Re: Dharma Bums

General-Zod wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:
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Zod wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

Hieronymous Corey wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

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I consider myself a latter day Dharma Bum.............

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dharma_Bums

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***************The character Japhy drives

Ray Smith's story, whose penchant for simplicity and Zen Buddhism
influenced Kerouac on the eve of the sudden and unpredicted success of
On the Road. The action shifts between the events of Smith and Ryder's
"city life," such as three-day parties and enactments of the Buddhist
"Yab-Yum" rituals, to the sublime and peaceful imagery where Kerouac
seeks a type of transcendence. The novel concludes with a change in
narrative style, with Kerouac working alone as a fire lookout on
Desolation Peak (adjacent to Hozomeen Mountain), in what would soon be
declared North Cascades National Park (see also Kerouac's novel
Desolation Angels). His summer on Desolation Peak was desperately
lonely. "Many's the time I thought I'd die of boredom or jump off the
mountain," he wrote in ''Desolation Angels.''[2] Yet in the more
eloquent ''Dharma Bums," Kerouac described the experience in elegiac
prose.

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Down on the lake rosy reflections of

celestial vapor appeared, and I said 'God, I love you' and looked up to
the sky and really meant it. 'I have fallen in love with you, God. Take
care of us all, one way or the other.'

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The blend of narrative with prose-poetry

places The Dharma Bums at a critical juncture foreshadowing the
consciousness-probing works of several authors in the 1960s such as
Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey.[citation needed]

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One episode in the book features Smith,

Ryder, and Henry Morley (based on real-life friend John Montgomery)
climbing Matterhorn Peak in California. It relates Kerouac's
introduction to this type of mountaineering and inspired him to spend
the following summer as a fire lookout for the United States Forest
Service on Desolation Peak in Washington.

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The novel also gives an account of the

legendary 1955 Six Gallery reading, where Allen Ginsberg gave a debut
presentation of his poem "Howl" (changed to "Wail" in the book). At the
event, other authors including Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael McClure,
and Philip Whalen also performed**********

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Where does the "dharma" come into your existence

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thomas_Idlet#Later_years

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Thomas met his fourth wife, the poet Philomene

Long in 1983 at a poetry reading.[5] The couple were inseparable in his
last years, and Thomas dedicated his final poems to her.[6]

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He said she "resurrected him." They lived together

on the edge of American society, maintaining a lifestyle of "living
poor" based on the ancient Zen recluse poets. "I would feel
uncomfortable and irritable living any other way. I have Philomene, a
pen, a pad, shirt and pants.. If you start wanting more, it fills you
up, leading to a poverty of the heart and mind."[citation needed]

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Thomas spent the sunset days of his life in his

house in Venice Beach and reading while sitting under a sweet gum tree
on the grounds of the Zen Center of Los Angeles.

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The above description fits Zod quite closely.

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****** Dharma is a concept of moral living **********

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Learn what it means to be a Dharma Bum before you attempt to

correct Zod, who is actually living the life:

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“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in

the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping,
running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of
the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian
virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters.
And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just
use good old railroad gloves, that's all.” -Jack Kerouac, The Dharma
Bums

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"Living the life"?

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Living a Dharma Bum life:
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“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the

temples this world pulls.” -Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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The Dharma Bums is a novel, a work of fiction, and Jack
Kerouac was an alcoholic writer, not a Dharma Bum.

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The poet Gary Snyder was the model for a Dharma Bum.

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The book is a FICTIONALIZED account

No shit, Sherlock.

You do understand what FICTION is, don’t you?
Dharma Bums is a work of FICTION. There are
no REAL Dharma Bums, and there never were.

Yes there were, as there is an account of groups of young people
appearing at Kerouac's Florida home calling themselves "Dharma Bums".
I've read this in Kerouac biographies, and I'm not sure if this has gone
online yet or not... either way, it just has, right here.

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Good morning, my friend.

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Kool man

Beautiful day here, I'm sure Florida is even better.
Enjoy your vacation, say hello to the family for me.
😏