the dharma bums by:Jack Kerouac

p.200-223

-"He went over on a freighter names sea serpent so he painted a big mural of a sea serpent and mermaids on a bulkhead in the messhall to the delight of th crew who dug him like crazy and all wanted to become dharma bums right there. now he's climbing up holy mount hiei in kyoto through a foot of snow probably, strait up where there are no trails, steep steep, through bamboo thickets and twisty pine like in brush drawing. feet wet and lunch forgot, that's the way to climb."

-this quote shows the way dharma bums are. they are very simple and never give up. this quote is about Rol sturlason who is his buddy and who lives very simply and who jsut went hiking up mount hiei in kyoto. even though his feet are wet and he forgot his lunch, he doesn;t give up and he kept on climbing. he climbed threw a lot fo snow and up the mountain where there were no trails. he climbed this mountain after going to paint a mural. they live very simply and you can obviously see that they are thankful for everything they have. i love this quote because it expresses exaly that.

-"just think, ray, what it was like right here on this hill where our shack stands thirty thousand years ago in the time of the Neanderthal man. and do you realize that they say in the sutras there a buddha of that time, dipankara? the one who never said anything!"

-this quote has nothing much to say about it, but i found it rather interesting because i say the same kind of acting threw out the entire book. they really look past the present. they look to the future and into the past. they make nothing out of something. they really seem to look/think outside the box. they had a conversation about this which, for most people, doesn't mean much at all and that most people, wouldn't even think about this.