Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
3.0 lac Qwaim of Authority<br />
Th Problem of Authority<br />
While it is pmsiblc m consider Bat Zen to be a variabn of Zen Buddhism, the<br />
following @m must be sddrryed: 'On what auulnity did the Beota dm Zen to fit<br />
mcir own lifatyh and -P That is, while Zen BuddhiaW m d i 8 d y MOW<br />
to mate Beat Zen on their own and foUow it? Since Knouac did not rtk out =.Zen<br />
muter, wha mold have guided hi8 study of Zen, aided in meditative pmticc, and<br />
iUluwted m d h g s with exampla from fhe legends of the Zen patriarchs, he was M m<br />
find his own authority m create Beat Zen. Warn, in Brof Zen 5- Zen mi Zm,<br />
presents his view m how the Beat Gemalim duived Ulis authority. He W bcs the<br />
ShWyQiepl E a t as:<br />
the mol, Inhinwdkctd hipster scarshing for kicks, ~ m e & ~ ~ biUi hof g Zen<br />
andWlsreonpojunifv~ditaWlaWnhom~wMhisinMjustord~,<br />
&&ploitaionofbthapaqle .... Tkynrc... theshadowofambtamc,the<br />
low-Iwel caricature which nlways snmda spiritual and dtvrnl mwemmfs,<br />
~arrying M to exma which thdr authon never intad&.'<br />
Chim~ Buddhism, Wm' vgumcnt dos not hold. That is, the pmceSs by which Kaouac
Change language