"(T)he universe is but one vast sea of compassion actually, a veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty, in fact who knows but it isn't the solitude of the one-ness of the essence of everything - comma - the solitude of the actual one-ness of the unborn-ness of the unborn essence of everything - comma - nay, the true pure forever-hood, that big blank potential that can rain forth anything it wants from its pure store, that blazing bliss..."Jack reads his essay on The Beats to students at Hunter College, NY, in 1958, infusing it with his own ecstatic vision of Buddhism (and punctuation). Funny and heartwarming.
Full audio (and pic) here
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