The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) - Softcover

Kerouac, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872862917 ISBN 13: 9780872862913

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 1994

Synopsis

These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans and prose poems express the poet’s beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.

"The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is fueled by Kerouac's discerning meditation on the nature of impermanence & consciousness, subtle like the dharma it invokes. We're here to disappear, therefore let's be as vivid & generous as we can. The intelligence & compassion behind this text is still alive."—Anne Waldman, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Scripture of the Golden Eternity is Jack Kerouac's statement of confidence in his oneness with the universe of energy and form, a confidence to which his whole being swelled. His was not the search for the ecstasy of the mystic or psychedelic or the Artaud-mad. He sought a recognition in philosophy of his early sense that his body participated in the universal forms of energy with a quality of exuberance—that 'serious exuberance' which he so accurately called jazz."—Eric Mottram, Introduction

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes (City Lights), Scattered Poems (City Lights) and The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights).

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These classic Kerouac meditations, Zen koans and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.

Review:

All These Selfnesses Have Already Vanished.
Are You Tightwad And Are You Mean, Those Are
The Awakened Buddha To Show The Way, The
Beyond The Reach Of Change And Fear, Beyond
Cats Yawn Because They Realize
The Cause Of The World's Woe Is Birth,
Discard Such Definite Imaginations Of Phenomena
A Disturbed And Frightened Man Is Like The
Do You Think The Emptiness Of The Sky Will Ever
Eight Hundred And Four Thousand Myriads Of
Even In Dreams Be Kind, Because Anyway There Is
The Everlasting And Tranquil Essence, Look Around
Everything's Alright, Form Is Emptiness And
Give A Gift To Your Brother, But There's No Gift
God Is Not Outside Us But Is Just Us, The
The God Of The American Plateau Indian Was
He Is Called A Yogi, He Is Called A Priest,
He Who Loves All Life With His Pity And
I Am The Golden Eternity In Mortal Animate Form
I Remember That I'm Supposed To Be A Man And
I Was Awakened To Show The Way, Chose To
I Was Smelling Flowers In The Yard, And When
If The Golden Eternity Was Anything Other Than
If We Were Not All The Golden Eternity We
Imaginary Judgments About Things, In This
It Came On Time.
Kindness And Sympathy, Understanding And
The Lesson Was Taught Long Ago In The Other
Look At Your Little Finger, The Emptiness Of It Is
Love Is All In All, Said Sainte Therese, Choosing
Meditate Outdoors. The Dark Trees At Night
A Mosquito As Big As Mount Everest Is Much
Mother Kali Eats Herself Back. All Things But
O Everlasting Eternity, All Things And All Truth
Perfectly Selfless, The Beauty Of It, The Butterfly
The Point Is We're Waiting, Not How Comfortable
The Realizer. Entertain No Imaginations Whatever,
Roaring Dreams Take Place In A Perfectly Silent
The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity
The Second Teaching From The Golden Eternity
The Secret God-grin In The Trees And In The Teapot,
Sociability Is A Big Smile, And A Big Smile Is
Stare Deep Into The World Before You As If It Were
Strictly Speaking, There Is No Me, Because All Is
That Sky, If It Was Anything Other Than An
The-attainer-to-that-which-everything-is,
There Is A Blessedness Surely To Be Believed,
There's No Need To Deny That Evil Thing Called
There's No System Of Teaching And No Reward
There's The World In The Daylight. If It Was
Things Dont Tire Of Going And Coming,
This Is The First Teaching From
This Is The Knowledge That Sees The Golden
This Truth Law Has No More Reality Than The World.
This World Is The Movie Of What Everything Is,
Though It Is Everything, Strictly Speaking
Up In Heaven You Wont Remember All These
What Does It Mean That Those Trees And
What Name Shall We Give It Which Hath No
When The Prince Of Kalinga Severed The
When You've Understood This Scripture, Throw It
The Womb Of Exuberant Fertility, Ashvhaghosha
The World Was Spun Out Of A Blade Of Grass:
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0872862917
• ISBN 13: 9780872862913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62