{"id":11268,"date":"2010-10-01T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/01\/kerouac-to-whalen-on-buddhism\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:35:15","slug":"kerouac-to-whalen-on-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/01\/kerouac-to-whalen-on-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac to Whalen on Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It&#39;s October again, Kerouac month at<em> MavPhil<\/em>.&#0160; Perhaps I will post a quotation a day throughout this wonderful month that always passes too&#0160;quickly &#8212; as if bent on proving the vain and visionary nature of phenomenal existence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Jack Kerouac finished<em> Some of the Dharma<\/em> on 15 March 1956.&#0160; <em>The Dharma Bums<\/em> was published in 1958.&#0160; By 1959, Kerouac was&#0160;moving away from Buddhism.&#0160; On 10 June 1959 he wrote to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/bigbridge.org\/Site\/Text\/Bios\/Whalen_Bio.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Philip Whalen<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Myself, the dharma is slipping away from my consciousness and I cant think of anything to say about it anymore. I still read the diamond sutra but as in a dream now.&#0160; Don&#39;t know what to do.&#0160; Cant see the purpose of human or terrestrial or any kinda life without heaven to reward the poor suffering fucks. The Buddhist notion that Ignorance caused the world leaves me cold now, because I feel the presence of angels. (<em>Some&#0160;of the Dharma<\/em>, Viking 1997, editor&#39;s introduction.)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s October again, Kerouac month at MavPhil.&#0160; Perhaps I will post a quotation a day throughout this wonderful month that always passes too&#0160;quickly &#8212; as if bent on proving the vain and visionary nature of phenomenal existence. Jack Kerouac finished Some of the Dharma on 15 March 1956.&#0160; The Dharma Bums was published in 1958.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/01\/kerouac-to-whalen-on-buddhism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerouac to Whalen on Buddhism&#8221;<\/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":[269,202,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268","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=11268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}