Buddhism and the Poetry of Jack Kerouac


For we all go back

where we came from,

God's Lit Brain,

his Transcendent Eye

of Wisdom


And there's your bloody circle

called Samsara

by the ignorant

Buddhists, who will

still be funny Masters

up there, bless em.


Jack Kerouac

-from Heaven


 

Jack Kerouac spent his creative years writing in a prosperous post world war II America. He was in many ways a very patriotic person who had no problem making known his love for his country , particularly within his literature. It was, quite literally, America that he was in love with. Taking cues from writers such as Whitman, he embraced the American landscape as a field for spiritual cultivation. Kerouac was indeed a writer with spiritual preoccupations. He saw himself as partaking in a lifelong journey through the America that was waiting to reveal itself and, consequently, himself.......

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