Kerouac

12.18.10

I went to City Lights bookstore yesterday (this place published books by Allen Ginsberg, friend of Jack Kerouac).  So I spent a lot of time up on the second floor reading some of beat generation works...

I especially liked this poem by Jack Kerouac...

GATHA

Sitting in the chair

In the morning ground

Is no sitting in no

chair in no morning ground

No returning, no

   non-returning

No Karma, no

   non-Karma

"Happiness, abiding

in peace, in seclusion

in the midst of the forest"

             is 

    abiding nowhere

UnHappiness, abiding 

  in anxiety in society

  in the midst of the 

    city

             is 

     abiding nowhere

Not-two, 

             means, 

no abider in his

         abode

No realizer in his

      realizing

"Develop a pure

  lucid mind"

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