" We'll write poems, we'll get a printing press and print opur own poems, the Dharma Press, we'll poetize the lot and make a fat book of icy bombs for the booby public."
I like how idealistic they are. Always comming up with new ideas. thats the cool part. I always have ideasliek this too but i never persew one untill somthing happends or i now its going to work with out much help. Maybe this is why Jack Kerowak writes and and all it proably started out as an idea and then he jsut went with it and it stoped becomming an idea it actually became something.
" Well then nothing's really happening, then."
He threw a stick at me and hit me on the foot.
" Well, that diden't happen," I said.
He is talking about how little things are meaning less. or well not meeningless becaouse some of the smallest things in life are meaningless but this kinda is talking about how witha pure Tathagata mind asking or haveing stupid things like that meen nothing there is nothing behind it. this is just showing how something like that really doesn't meen anything there is nothign behind it a stick was throne that was it. its kinda like a Zen moment i think.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
The Dharma Bums- Pg. 171-199
"You know what sudden enlightenment is? One diciple came to a Masterand answered his koan and the Master hit him with a stick and knocked him off the veranda ten feet into a mud puddle. The disciple got up and laughed. He later became a Master himself. 'Twasn't by words he was enlightened, but by that great healthy push off the porch."
I can see how someone can be enlightened this way. It is not so much words that make you understand but actions. To some people they respoind better to when things actally hapepnd to them and they live through it, not so much whent hey are talked to death. How can some fully be englightened if they jsut read about it and wait for it to happen. It the act fo soemthing happening is enlightenment. I meen im not toatly sure if that is correct but tis not like studying or understanding enlightenment to reach it you much have something effect you like this person who became the master did.
"Japhy said " Why do you sit on your ass all day?"
" i practice do-nothing."
Whats the difference? Burn it, my Buddhism is activity," said Japhy
I thinks this is jsut another way the challane each other, liek we talked about in class. He doesent think he is doing " nothing" and Japhy is trying to make him do it his way. I could be way off about this. i just thought this was a really funny quote. and plus doing nothing actually is important some people always have to do something, its like cant you just sit down and not do anything, you dont alwasy need to be moving alwasy need to be going somewere its good to just be.
I can see how someone can be enlightened this way. It is not so much words that make you understand but actions. To some people they respoind better to when things actally hapepnd to them and they live through it, not so much whent hey are talked to death. How can some fully be englightened if they jsut read about it and wait for it to happen. It the act fo soemthing happening is enlightenment. I meen im not toatly sure if that is correct but tis not like studying or understanding enlightenment to reach it you much have something effect you like this person who became the master did.
"Japhy said " Why do you sit on your ass all day?"
" i practice do-nothing."
Whats the difference? Burn it, my Buddhism is activity," said Japhy
I thinks this is jsut another way the challane each other, liek we talked about in class. He doesent think he is doing " nothing" and Japhy is trying to make him do it his way. I could be way off about this. i just thought this was a really funny quote. and plus doing nothing actually is important some people always have to do something, its like cant you just sit down and not do anything, you dont alwasy need to be moving alwasy need to be going somewere its good to just be.
The Dharma Bums- Pg 150-171
" Two Hours work, he gave me four dollars and i went into a truckstop diner and had a royal meal and was al set for that afternoon and night."
It is so werid how evcerything was so cheap. He worked for 2 hard hours loading pads onto a truck and he made 4 bucks. If it was this happend now someone would expect liek 20 bucks. Everything now adays is so expensive.
"... I figured it if it was my destiny to die on the Midnight Ghost it was my destiny..."
I love how he taks chances no madder what. I think he is living a peacful enough life to take things for what they are and not be so indesive about why something is or think it al the way through jsut live in the momement and take things for what they are. He is ok with death not scared fo ti like alot fo other people. He kinda feels liek there is more in his life that he has to do but how can he be sure its liek fate, he belive in it i think. which i actualyl find a little werid how can someonw know who they are and what they do compleatly if they belive in fate that somoene els is making your choices for you. That he actualyl isent in controle of his life?
It is so werid how evcerything was so cheap. He worked for 2 hard hours loading pads onto a truck and he made 4 bucks. If it was this happend now someone would expect liek 20 bucks. Everything now adays is so expensive.
"... I figured it if it was my destiny to die on the Midnight Ghost it was my destiny..."
I love how he taks chances no madder what. I think he is living a peacful enough life to take things for what they are and not be so indesive about why something is or think it al the way through jsut live in the momement and take things for what they are. He is ok with death not scared fo ti like alot fo other people. He kinda feels liek there is more in his life that he has to do but how can he be sure its liek fate, he belive in it i think. which i actualyl find a little werid how can someonw know who they are and what they do compleatly if they belive in fate that somoene els is making your choices for you. That he actualyl isent in controle of his life?
The Dharma Bums- Pg. 120-149
" Everything is possible. I am God, I am Buddha, I am imperfect Ray Smith, all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels."
The thing about this books as i have noticed is that, Ray goes on these tangents were he is just expressing himself but he is not telling us how he feels directly he is talking about somehing bigger every time he goes on like this. He is saying that everything is connected. Every one thing that someone does directly effects another thing. Also kinda talking about rencartantion that evertything you do form this one life gets carried onto your next life.
pg 129
" Here i am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Ohio to L.A. and I am making more money then you ever had in your whole life as a hobo, but you're the one who enjoys life and not only that but you do it without workingor a whole lot of money. Now who's smart, you or me?...he was a great man and i liked him and he liked me and said ' well I'll tell you, wupposin i drive you all the way to Ohio."
I love this quote this whole conversation, I love how much of a free drifter Ray is and how he meets people just avrage people and makes them think gives them prespective. He without even doing much but have a comon curtasy but making him dinner and chatting with him has make this man think about his life VS Rays, how he is working so hard and making money but isent compleattly happy he is doig all the right things in socity but isent happy and Ray not doing anythign that socity tells you is so hapy and doesent need a dime. And then when the guy offers him a ride, that was great becaouse now they are friend has he says latter on he would help him out he si shwing Ray some kindeness, and i dont thinkt ha most people int he world could get kindness liekt hat if they dident give it out themsleves.
The thing about this books as i have noticed is that, Ray goes on these tangents were he is just expressing himself but he is not telling us how he feels directly he is talking about somehing bigger every time he goes on like this. He is saying that everything is connected. Every one thing that someone does directly effects another thing. Also kinda talking about rencartantion that evertything you do form this one life gets carried onto your next life.
pg 129
" Here i am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Ohio to L.A. and I am making more money then you ever had in your whole life as a hobo, but you're the one who enjoys life and not only that but you do it without workingor a whole lot of money. Now who's smart, you or me?...he was a great man and i liked him and he liked me and said ' well I'll tell you, wupposin i drive you all the way to Ohio."
I love this quote this whole conversation, I love how much of a free drifter Ray is and how he meets people just avrage people and makes them think gives them prespective. He without even doing much but have a comon curtasy but making him dinner and chatting with him has make this man think about his life VS Rays, how he is working so hard and making money but isent compleattly happy he is doig all the right things in socity but isent happy and Ray not doing anythign that socity tells you is so hapy and doesent need a dime. And then when the guy offers him a ride, that was great becaouse now they are friend has he says latter on he would help him out he si shwing Ray some kindeness, and i dont thinkt ha most people int he world could get kindness liekt hat if they dident give it out themsleves.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
paper topic
paper topic charity in the book thinking of other
count cult presentations- the yes man or wto protesters..
count cult presentations- the yes man or wto protesters..
Sunday, April 15, 2007
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.
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.
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