The Golden Eternity
by Jack Kerouac
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 I have lots of things to share now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect.
The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
Rocks dont see it.
Bless and sit down.
Forgive and forget.
Practice kindness all day to everybody
and you will realize you’re already
in heaven now.
That’s the story.
That’s the message.
Nobody understands it,
nobody listens, they’re
all running around like chickens with heads cut
off. I will try to teach it but it will
be in vain, s’why I’ll
end up in a shack
praying and being
cool and singing
by my woodstove
making pancakes.
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The Golden Eternity
What does the golden eternity mean to you? Can you share an experience of a time you felt that everything was alright forever and ever? How do you get your thinking mind to stop getting in the way of this awareness? |
| Jagdish P Dave wrote: Jack Kerouac’s poem evoked a poem in my mind. It is an echo, not the sound. Do not chase it and call it your call. Your legs will be tired and your voice will be lost. Who is to forgive an… |
| Kristin Pedemonti wrote: Golden Eternity is being here Now. It is not worrying about past or future. There have been countless times when everything was alright forever and ever; those times when I allow myself to trul… |
| Abhishek Thakore wrote: The tricky thing about nothingness is that to describe it is to not describe it, to speak about it is to not speak about it….so being anchored in the ‘absolutely nothing happened’ includes letting … |
| david doane wrote: For me, the Golden Eternity is another name for the Undefinable, the Incomprehensible Mystery, Eternal Being, Awareness, God, Great Spirit. I see all those terms as interchangeable. … |
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