The Dharma Bums- Pg. 94-120

" Everything was real, okay. Thats why frontiersmen are always heroes and were always my real heroes and will always be. They'er constantly on the aler in the realnes which might as well be a real as unreal, what difference does it make, Diamonds Sutra says ' Make no formed conceptions about the realness or exitence not about the unrealness of existence,' or words like that. Handcuffs will get sodt and billy clubs will topple over, let's go on being free anyhow."

This is when Japhy was talking to all thoughs men at this " party"/ poetery place. I really like this quote he is just telling this guy about realness in life. I really cant express why i like this quote so much, I understand it in my own way but i just cant project what I want to say. I posted it because i think it is full of true beleife in something, and the way he is just able to express himself is amazing.

...When i tried to explain the Dharma to people, Albah, my mother, my reatives, girlfriends, everybody, thye never listened, they alwasy wanted met o listen to them, thy knew, I dident't know anything, I was jsut a dumb young kid and impractical fool who dident't understand the seriouse significance of this very important, very real world."

This is when Ray is trying to talk to Rosie and he feels like this. It is very werid that he explains this in this way because thats how many people feel, when thye try to tell others there belifes and no one understand or cares to. This is a big thing in alot peoples lives today, the fact that no one is listening to them or there ideas about things. This is also very big with kids in thr 60's and 70's and there parents when they try to explain to them why they love this type of music or why they act a certain way, and the parents freek out and say that if its isent just there way or that they dont undsetand anything and that its all about money and stupid things like that. And what thye should be doing is not teaching them lessons like that but listening to there veiws and opions and not shutting them down compleatly. I understand how he feels in this moment compleatly its a scarry crappy feeling have people not care about what you care about.