pg. 49 – 72
1) “…I realize this (in spite of my swollen foot veins) would do me a lot of good and get me away from drinking and maybe make me appreciate perhaps a whole new way of living. (55)”
Ray thought about what he had said before about walking up a mountain that than being at ‘The Place’ and having a good old time drinking and having fun just hanging out with the three of them. Japhy told him it doesn’t matter where you are its all the same and plus comparing things just makes things worst. It’s better to look at them form one way and look at another thing the other way. Ray realized what he, himself had said was wrong and listening to Japhy made him realize he could be a better person but also stop drinking.
2) “Think of the patience, hundred of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like prying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin. (67)”
Ray and Japhy were commenting about how the mountains are so silent. Japhy said that the mountain, to him, is Buddha because they just sit there and watch and are relaxed about everything. They want living things to stop with their worries and just relax and sit peacefully with them. Unlike living creatures they move and they need to get things done and can’t just stay and one place and look around them and notice what is going on with every little moving thing is doing. Ray and Japhy still move on with what they were doing.
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