Waiting For Karma

Waiting for Karma [1]
Series
	The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
	10/5/2000
Cast
	Joe Frank, Larry Block, Kristine McKenna, Jack Kornfield, Zak Block, Debi Mae West
Format
	Karma Style, 1 hour
Preceded by:	Karma Redux
Followed by:	Small World Karma
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"I feel very uncomfortable eating when I'm sober."

Waiting for Karma is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on October 5, 2000.

Synopsis

Larry - getting drunk and eating bad things. Aborted motorcycle rides to Mexico. Drunken and stoned motorcycle escapades and waking up in the hospital.
Kornfield - the mind holds on to its link with the world.
Larry - Zak's drug habit, the new drug "progeny."
Kornfield - the problem with desire. If only mind.
Zak - He's mixing sound. We hear a sample of his work.
Kornfield - An old man travels with his bag of possessions looking for happiness. A trickster steals it, then returns it.
Kristine McKenna - Comparing material and existential despair. The natural state of her mind is troubled. Feeling relief in natural disasters. Being haunted by childhood. Leonard Cohen and despair among the successful.
Kristine and Joe - The food chain and the cruel hierarchy of nature - what can be the nature of god?
Kornfield - Great doubt. Sufi story about a man who questions heaven's gate-keeper.
Larry and Joe - Summer camp rituals. A group of self-selecting camp "elders," the Sanhedrin, and a tapping-in ceremony. Insiders and the faithful outcasts. Joe finds the idea cruel.
Kornfield - Mullah Nasrudin looks for his keys where the light is, identifies himself at the bank with a mirror. Conditioned ideas about oneself.
Larry - A joke about a man who calls his friend's attention to the anatomy of a woman in a restaurant. A joke about an actor who is told there's been a murder in his apartment.
Kornfield - what is listening, meditation?
Debi - Tears after a discussion of lying.

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