"BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <[email protected]>

On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 1:06:03 AM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 12:56:49 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: 
> > > > On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 7:40:17 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: 
> > 
> > > > > Beatnik Buddhism in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums 
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=engl_fac 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ******** "Pastoral and Utopia, Visionary Conceptions of the Good Life." This book's 
> > > > > triumphant celebration of free love, wilderness adventures, bohemian companionship, and Buddhist 
> > > > > meditation made a perfect fit. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ************Kerouac discovered Buddhism by way of Henry David Thoreau: "Well I went to the library to read 
> > > > > Thoreau. I said, 'I'm going to cut out from civilization and go back and live in the woods like 
> > > > > Thoreau.' And I started to read Thoreau and he talked about Hindu philosophy. So I put Thoreau down 
> > > > > and I took out, accidentally, The Life of Buddha by Ashvagosa." 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ***********This led him to Dwight Goddard's 1932 collection of Classic sutras, The Buddhist Bible, bound with leather, carried in his rucksack, studied methodically, quoted and paraphrased, 
> > > > > and publicized among his friends and later to readers of The Dharma Bums.[ 
> > > > > 
> > > > > **************The words of the book's title, Dharma Bums, epitomize Beat spirituality. The pairing of Classical Sanskrit 
> > > > > and contemporary American slang typifies the Beats' yoking of sacred and profane, exalted and base, the 
> > > > > law and the outlaw. Kerouac draws attention to the phrase several times near the beginning of the book: 
> > > > > at this time I was a perfect Dharma Bum myself and considered myself a religious wanderer.(5) 
> > > > > [10] 
> > > > > the little St. Teresa bum [whom he encounters hopping a freight from L.A. to Santa Barbara] was 
> > > > > the first genuine Dharma Bum I'd met, and the second was the number one Dharma Bum of them 
> > > > > all and in fact it was he, Japhy Ryder, who coined the phrase 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ************************ 
> > > > 
> > > > So emulate Kerouac and read about Buddhism: 
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/en/index.php?cat=11 
> > > 
> > > I thank you, I am studying more now..... 

I just want to post this somewhere where I can locate it later, finally found the early email BBS list I was on during my early internet days, dedicated to the Beat Generation:

https://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/Lectures/FileBEAT-LLOG971023-04.htm

Date:         Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:47:58 -0400
Reply-To:     "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <[email protected]>

While I'm sure it isn't complete, at least it is a start of an archive.