from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity [excerpts]

from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

by Jack Kerouac

18

There is a blessedness surely to be believed,
and that is that everything abides in
eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

20

The secret God-grin in the trees and in the teapot,
in ashes and fronds, fire and brick, flesh and
mental human hope. All things, far from yearning
to be re-united with God, had never left themselves
and here they are, Dharmakaya, the body of the
truth law, the universal Thisness.

23

Things don't tire of going and coming.
The flies end up with delicate viands.

25

Though it is everything, strictly speaking
there is no golden eternity because everything
is nothing: there are no things and no goings and
comings: for all is emptiness, and emptiness is
these forms, emptiness is this one formhood.

26

All these selfnesses have already vanished.
Einstein measured that this present universe is an
expanding bubble, and you know what that means.

27

Discard such definite imaginations of phenomena
as your own self, thou human being, thou'rt a
numberless mass of sun-motes: each mote a shrine.
The same as to your shyness of other selves,
selfness as divided into infinite numbers of beings,
or selfness as identified as one self existing
eternally. Be obliging and noble, be generous
with your time and help and possessions, and be
kind, because the emptiness of this little place
of flesh you carry around and call your soul,
your entity, is the same emptiness in every direction
of space unmeasurably emptiness, the same, one,
and holy emptiness everywhere: why be selfly and
unfree, Man God, in your dream? Wake up, thou'rt
selfless and free. "Even and upright your mind
abides nowhere," states Hui Neng of China.
We're all in Heaven now.

28

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent
mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.