> … Sean Monahan, later said that though Kerouac’s “intuitions were right,” he “made up his Buddhism” and “didn’t know a lot about it, didn’t have a lot of trai

> … Sean Monahan, later said that though Kerouac’s “intuitions were right,” he “made up his Buddhism” and “didn’t know a lot about it, didn’t have a lot of training in it.” Watts himself said Kerouac had “Zen flesh but no Zen bones,” and poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth wrote, “Kerouac’s Buddha is a dime-store incense burner.” The moss in this, is that Buddhism itself is purely a product of thought. Siddhartha himself did nothing other than thinking and writing (unsure on the writing vs. transcription). Everything else is lichen grafted on over the years as dogma creeps in.