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Some of the Dharma

By Jack Kerouac

Probably Kerouac's most original and deep manuscript that became a new, nonfiction form; Some of the Dharma was written between 1953 and 1956 but was considered too obscure and not published until 1997. As visually elaborate as the writing, almost every page unique with type in various patterns; this is not a book for those looking for entertainment or escape but a treasure for soul-seekers following the Tao.

Quotes from Some of the Dharma

“'Not one or the other or both or neither' explains away all arbitrary conceptions”

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Themes: Opinion

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“'They know not what they do' is a universal truth.”

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Themes: Compassion

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“‘God’ is a Faustian, false concept”

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Themes: God

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“all things are different appearances of the same emptiness”

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Themes: Emptiness

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“Buddhism is a return to the Original mind”

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Themes: Buddhism

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“Buddhism is the understanding of the angels”

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Themes: Buddhism

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“Catholic Dualism is behind the error of Western Civilization with its war of machines”

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“Doubt is a condition of life quaking in the bone because the bone is on fire”

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Themes: Doubt Curiosity

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“Fire results in smoke and ashes... poetry results in publishing and dust”

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Themes: Poetry

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“He who is aware of the Male but keeps to the Female... has the Eternal power which never fails.”

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“It's worse than death not to know that 'God' is the same thing as yourself”

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Themes: God

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“Money is emptiness, money is not different from emptiness, neither is emptiness different from money, indeed, emptiness is money.”

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Themes: Money

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“Moonlight's Almost
Like someone
Was tryin to
Light my Way”

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Themes: Moon

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“My reward is the perfect blue sky at dawn in the desert in a bird-resounding riverbottom grove”

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“My witness is the empty sky”

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Themes: Moral Freedom

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“Religions appear to be schismatic technical harangues, corruptions of some original pure Vision”

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“Success and failure are both humiliating.”

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Themes: Success Failure

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“sweet Buddha…I always did suspect that life was a dream, now I am assured by the most brilliant man who ever lived that it is indeed so”

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Themes: Dream

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“Taoism is a human religion rather than divine like Buddhism. Tao can be 'used' (as by... cackling architects of the eternal nod)”

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Themes: Taoism

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“the future is an evanescent dew, a shadow, a lightening flash, just as the past, just as now”

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Themes: Time Carpe diem

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“The world is full of blind children... People in the world are completely stupid, like poor animals and dogs.”

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Themes: Ignorance

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“To look everywhere and see nothing, that's the aim of wisdom”

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Themes: Wisdom

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“Truth is like a bird
Flying silently
In the silken sky
To a hidden tree
In the cottonmouth
night—”

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Themes: Truth

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“What advantage is there in multiplying need? REST AND BE HAPPY”

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“When your body vanishes... there remains what does not below to self but was only 'loaned' to it, a universal mind”

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