The Diamond Sutra

Read it at http://www.diamond-sutra.com/ .

It's what Jack Kerouac had brought with him up to his mountaintop. I'm reading his Desolation Angels.

Aside: The three men I admire most: the father, son, and holy ghost, packed their things up for the coast the day the music died... Kerouac is said to be the son, from that song lyric.

In chapter 49, he says he is God, he is Buddha.

William Burroughs warning to Jack Kerouac

From Joyce Johnson's introduction to Kerouac's Desolation Angels:

"A man who uses Buddhism or any other instrument to remove love from his being in order to avoid suffering, has committed, in my mind, a sacrilege comparable to castration."