{"id":11263,"date":"2010-10-04T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T12:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/kerouac-october-quotation-4-resolutions-made-and-broken\/"},"modified":"2010-10-04T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T12:17:34","slug":"kerouac-october-quotation-4-resolutions-made-and-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/kerouac-october-quotation-4-resolutions-made-and-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac October Quotation #4: Resolutions Made and Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweet gone Jack made such an effort to be a good boy, but failed so utterly as to break one's heart.  Here is a Some of the Dharma<\/em> entry (p. 127) written sometime between July and October 1954, before success and fame and alcohol undid him:<\/font><\/p>\n

RESOLVED<\/font><\/p>\n

One meal a day<\/font><\/p>\n

No drinking of intoxicants<\/font><\/p>\n

No maintaining of friendships<\/font><\/p>\n

That, if I break any of these elementary rules of Buddhism, which have been my biggest obstacles, hindrances t othe attainment of contemplative happiness and joy of will, I will give up Buddhism forever. [He did break them and did give up Buddhism.]<\/font><\/p>\n

Agreed, that I may finish the literary work I began, by the age of 40, after which my only work is to be in the Dharma Teaching, to be followed  by all cessation of work, striving or mental effort when Nirvana is nigh and signs indicate there is no more to write and teach.<\/font><\/p>\n

One meal a day<\/em> means, the mind not to be taunted and tempted by the senses. (Sensation of taste left uncultivated.) No intoxicants<\/em> means, the heart not to be deranged, beaten in, (as in excessive drinking), nor the brain hystericalized and over-filled with anxious drug-thoughts and irrelevant images.  No maintaining of friendships<\/em> means, no relations whatever to contaminate the good of contemplation, no pleasure-seeking, no ego-personality activity, no Co-Ignorance.<\/font><\/p>\n

Quand tu t'ennui souffre . . .<\/font><\/p>\n

Not drinking  preserves contemplative strength<\/font><\/p>\n

Eating once a day, contemplative sensitivity<\/font><\/p>\n

No friends or lusts, contemplative serenity<\/font><\/p>\n

Strength, Sensitivity, Serenity = Joy<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweet gone Jack made such an effort to be a good boy, but failed so utterly as to break one's heart.  Here is a Some of the Dharma entry (p. 127) written sometime between July and October 1954, before success and fame and alcohol undid him: RESOLVED One meal a day No drinking of intoxicants … Continue reading “Kerouac October Quotation #4: Resolutions Made and Broken”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}