Some of the Dharma Quotes

“My witness is the empty sky.

My reward is the perfect blue sky at dawn in the desert in a bird-resounding riverbottom grove.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“But let a perpetual smile
of peace and satisfaction
On your lips
Be a symbol of the decision
To think happiness (equanimity)
Since everything that happens
Happens in your head”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“I am an appearance
The world is an appearance
The bread I eat is an appearance
All wish't forth from Mind Essence
Due to Ignorance--
I don't have to exist
I don't exist, I do exist--
Who cares?
For the purposes of this world
Do nothing
Or do everything anyhow.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“Nature
Just because you shit fruit
Don't think you're the Kingpin of the World”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“My head is turned by every eye”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“We just think that we're being born, when we're born; (headfirst crying out of the smile of the womb, if we'd only known that it was all the same before getting involved in Samsara---saving motion and nervousness, not forsaking peace---I remember being forced out---to the discriminatory prickles and thorns of the world)--- We're still the same old substance, High Hearable Essence Light---(whatever it really is, & Empty)--- Unbornness is the above---

We just think that we're dying, when we die!---headfirst falling in the airplane, falling once again, from stage-emptiness to stage-emptiness---unborn and undying and undead---Birth and death not a dualism, no difference---same Dharmakaya Universal Essence---

No death, no birth, no error, no "prose", but uncreated single substance essence flow of transitory unreal words riding an unreal ride across the memory of the unreal word,

I can't say that the world is
Not that it is not -
Because it is just from Mind”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“Dreaming: the phantom of self-illusion emanating visions that change every night

Living: the phantom of universal self-illusion emanating the huge vision of the world that takes millenniums to change”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“Where Buddha and Tao Meet:
Stop seeking pleasures,
Satisfy your natural wants;
Break clean from ambitions,
Escape from the urge to improve,
Be like a kid
And salvation will come of itself.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“When you feel depressed and you wanta go here, wanta go there, remember Mind Essence; the world, like dreams, will never come true. Operate on Intuition, Rest and Be Happy. It's all in your head what happens so you might as well think happiness.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“If he can be call'd meek
who has no wishes
--or hiding who needs never
be found--
or scared who never
attacks---
forgotten, who watches up
the night---
If he can be called "he,"
who has no self
Writes "One is All"
On every wall.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“Nothing's alive for the universe is a dream already ended.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“Since life is a dream I think I'll stop eating and drinking so much--do some ethereal daydreaming instead--go in the mansion of the mind and close all the doors, as if I was traveling in the back of a bus for 4 days & 4 nights, broke.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“Use the shadows of the born
The shapes of the world
And pass them before the light
Of imagination's birthless ecstasy”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“I wanta go to Tangiers, I want girls, I
wanta write the biggest book in the world,
I want spring to come, I want, I want--
Wanting, I get; getting, I lose; losing, I
suffer; suffering, I die--
NOT WANTING, I DON'T GET
NOT GETTING, I DON'T LOSE
NOT LOSING, I DON'T SUFFER
NOT SUFFERING, I DON'T DIE SUFFERING.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“Sight in itself is but an obscuring mist.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“It hurts me to think about gravity holding all empty streamforms together---it hurts me to continually think about emptiness and meaning--I'll just think nothing.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma