Some of the Dharma (Viking 1997), p. 382:
Martin Boober -- with all his fancy veins sticking out of his forehead he still wont face the final truth -- of Nil Substantum -- the Jews are proud of being a "person" -- as tho it was some great achievement -- The old Hasidic saying "For my sake the world was created" reflects the Jew's profound inability to detach himself from ego-self-belief -- the final depersonalized Aryan Indian blank truth and highest perfect final fact of Everything-is-Emptiness is beyond their best scribes -- Yet, in truth, one must know there are no Jews no Indians, nothing to discuss, only everything's alright forever and forever a n d f o r e v e r . . . .
After his Buddhist phase, Kerouac makes his way back to Christianity which is a 'middle path' between the nihilism of Buddhism and the thisworldly positivism of Judaism.
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