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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Debi tells Joe Malcolm is about to come home; a friend called and | |||
wants them to meet at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyBar SkyBar],<ref> | |||
a fancy expensive bar in the Hotel Mondrian</ref> but she | |||
feels out-of-sorts, doesn't know the meaning of life, worries that her | |||
life is meaningless. | |||
1:20: Jack Kornfield says that emptiness is one of the great teachings | |||
of the Buddha, expatiates. | |||
2:50: Larry tells Joe he wants to get a drive-away car, drive across | |||
country, end up at Joe's, quotes Robert Frost on home. Joe's less | |||
certain of his hospitality. | |||
4:30: Debi tells Joe she feels uncreative, tells Joe what she wants to | |||
do. | |||
6:00: Debi tells Joe she doesn't know where Malcolm is, is worried. | |||
She talks about what she's worried about. She mentions Dan and | |||
Suzanne's wedding.<ref>which she recounts in [[The Future]]</ref> She | |||
describes her money worries; Malcolm doesn't worry about money - also | |||
is behind on child support. (He has a 14 and a 16-year-old.) | |||
Malcolm's kids are going to visit. | |||
12:10: Larry tells Joe about his visit to the Actors' credit union, | |||
the 3 guys, dancers, full of joy, how he enjoyed watching them. He | |||
bought turkey and vodka on the way home. | |||
16:30: Debi tells Joe that she was judgmental of Malcolm's | |||
relationship with his kids but she heard them on the phone with him, | |||
how much they liked each other. Joe points out how little they see | |||
each other. | |||
19:50: Jack Kornfield reads a poem from | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir Kabir] about living in the | |||
moment. Kornfield says that people come to spiritual practice to | |||
escape from life - he did - but no one escapes his/her life. He | |||
recounts returning from 5 years in monastery, living with his parents, | |||
continuing to live as a monk, begged for food, was mostly fed by his | |||
mother. He wouldn't handle money. He tells of visiting his twin | |||
brother in New York. He first went to Elizabeth Arden to meet his | |||
brother's wife. Later, he disrobes, gets a job, gets into graduate | |||
school, into a relationship, and all his old emotional problems | |||
return. He calls himself 'emotionally retarded'. | |||
30:00: Larry tells Joe he has become inured to not getting any work. | |||
Joe tells Larry he deserves to feel as big a failure as he wants, | |||
supports Larry in his self-loathing. Larry's going to see a new | |||
therapist, Doctor Dan. | |||
36:00: Debi tells Joe Malcolm hasn't called; she'll go to the SkyBar | |||
without him. She likes his upbeat spirit. She worries about his | |||
ex-wife. Her friends at the SkyBar call. She's confident she and | |||
Malcolm will marry. She tells Joe someone stole all his band's | |||
equipment, which he interprets as a sign that maybe he should leave | |||
music. | |||
42:00: Malcolm had a deal with | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interscope_Records Interscope records] | |||
but they dropped him. He's trying to figure out what he wants to do. | |||
43:00: Debi's unhappy that Malcolm's over an hour late. | |||
43:40: Joe and Debi talk about Malcolm's wife, Lena, whom the kids are | |||
going to stay with 1 week of their visit. She worries about Lena and | |||
Malcolm. Malcolm arrives. | |||
48:10: Kornfield says he exerted a lot of effort when he began to | |||
teach. He figured out that effort makes meditation more difficult, | |||
that effort is a symptom of fear, that dealing with the fear makes the | |||
effort unnecessary. | |||
50:20: Larry tells Joe about his generalized rage. | |||
50:50: Kornfield talks about overcoming bitterness, quotes | |||
Emily Dickinson's 'There is a pain - so utter'<ref>'There is a pain - so utter - | |||
<br> It swallows substance up - | |||
<br> Then covers the Abyss with Trance - | |||
<br> So Memory can step | |||
<br> Around - across - upon it - | |||
<br> As one within a Swoon - | |||
<br>Goes safely - where an open eye - | |||
<br>Would drop Him - Bone by Bone.'</ref> as an example of avoiding dealing with pain. | |||
52:10: Larry tells Joe he's doing badly, drinking a lot, has run out | |||
of drugs. | |||
52:30: Kornfield tells that we have to accept our suffering. | |||
54:00: Larry tells some rude ethnic jokes. Because it's rude to tell | |||
them on Poles, he chooses Talibans as the butt of his jokes. Joe | |||
doesn't get the jokes. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
*[[Debi Mae West]]: meaning of life, need for purpose. | *[[Debi Mae West]]: meaning of life, need for purpose. | ||
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*Jack: concluding thoughts. | *Jack: concluding thoughts. | ||
*Larry tells a few jokes and has to explain them for Joe. | *Larry tells a few jokes and has to explain them for Joe. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Sex (The Necks)}} [Intro] | {{Sex (The Necks)}} [Intro] | ||
{{Epominomous, Where Are You? (Mike Richmond)}} [29:41] | {{Epominomous, Where Are You? (Mike Richmond)}} [29:41] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Karma Style]] | [[Category:Karma Style]] | ||