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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Joe tells of his wonderful next-door neighbors: he's executive
producer of a sitcom on ABC, she's a medical student at USC (and
pregnant) - 'wonderful, warm, and very smart', and a 1-year-old.  Joe
contrasts his life with theirs, in their favor.
3:10: While sitting their baby one evening, Joe misses Kate.  He
didn't go to meet her in Rome<ref>as imagined in [[Karma (Part 6)]]</ref>
Joe worries the baby will die on him.
4:10: Joe remembers the 1965 Blackout<ref>November 9/10</ref>, when
his Uncle Ben was in the hospital.  Joe went to the hospital to visit
him that evening but turned back at the door to his room.
5:40: '2 years before, I had had a particularly-virulent form of
testicular cancer.'<ref>Joe was born in 1938, so he was 24/25 in 1963.
In [[Too Close To Home]] he says he had testicular cancer when he was
23.</ref>  Because of this Joe felt he carried death with, worried that
Ben would get it from him, that his wife would blame Joe for his
death.  Ben died that night.
8:00: Jack Kornfield asks how many people would be grateful
for the life they have, conjectures the story of the person, diagnosed
with cancer, finds out it was a mistake: how much happier s/he is with
him/herself, despite the sameness of his/her life to before the
diagnosis.  He says the purpose of meditation is just to be.
11:20: Joe tells the story of his maid, Elena, an Ecuadorean.
Her daughter is ill; she can't afford her medical bills.  Joe adds the
cost of the bills to that week's payment.  Joe imagines marrying her,
how it wouldn't work out.
15:10: Larry asks Joe what he had for breakfast.  Joe says French
toast.  Joe uses the most expensive maple syrup ('First Drip', flown
in from Vermont), throws the rest away.  They talk about what Joe
drinks.  They talk about anti-depressants, Larry's hip psychiatrist,
orthopedic psychiatrists. <ref name=nature>originally aired in
[[The Nature Of Things]]</ref>
19:40:  Kornfield quotes T. S. Eliot's 'Ash Wednesday':
<blockquote>
Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,<br>
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood<br>
Teach us to care and not to care<br>
Teach us to sit still<br>
Even among these rocks,<br>
</blockquote>
He tells us about his colleague, Julie Wester (sp?), who used to be a
hospice nurse, that, in hospice there are no more emergencies, that
they just accept what happens.
22:20: Joe dreams that Kate came to his house, with braces on her
teeth, as though she were a teenager.  He's desolated when he wakes to
find it a dream.
23:10: Joe discusses his relationship with Kate with Larry.<ref>Larry
uses the word 'karass' to describe Joe and Kate's relationship, a word
invented by Kurt Vonnegut in <i>Cat's Cradle</i>.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle</ref> Joe tells him they
can't have a thoughtful, fair relationship.  Joe claims he examines
himself, Kate doesn't.  Larry supports him.
27:50: Kristine McKenna talks about how people feel about breakups,
applies it to Joe and Kate.<ref>In [[Karma (Part 5)]] Kristine says
she hasn't met Kate.</ref>
30:20: Joe woke up in a sweat last Saturday, missing Kate; they
usually went on a trip.  Joe wondered what to do, mixed a bottle of
vodka and orange juice, started drinking.  He noticed that he talks to
himself all the time.  He went to the station to work on the show.
33:50: Joe talks about the 'hot, French, blonde' who works at the
station on Saturdays.  While Joe talks about music with his friend
Thomas Golubić<ref>credited as a music consultant on many of
Joe's shows</ref> she and Joe talk about sex.
36:00: Kristine tells about working at a job 10 years ago.  She had a
relationship with her boss's former boyfriend.  They did too many
drugs.  He started a relationship with Kristine's 'best friend at the
time'.  Kristine lost her mind (so she says), lost control, threw his
bike across his office.  She got fired, even though she was the top
salesperson (so she says.)
40:10: Kornfield tells of the English monk who came to his monastery,
was unhappy with it, went to a number of different monasteries,
disliked all of them.  His master, Ajahn Chah, said, 'He's like the
monk who put his bag down in dogshit and thinks all the monasteries he
goes to smell bad.'
42:00: Kornfield tells of Konigiri (sp?) Roshi, a Zen master dying of
cancer.  He told his students that they were waiting around to see how
a Zen master dies.
42:40: Kornfield quotes Jung, 'One does not become enlightened by
imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.'
43:00: Kornfield remembers teaching with Stephen
Levine<ref>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Levine_(author)</ref>,
how people deny death.
44:50: Joe tells of Kristine's 2 cats, who fight unless separated.
(She lives in studio apartment.)  She tries to get them to get along.
During one such session she was cut so badly she went to the emergency
room.  She was sick again the next day; Joe drove her to the ER.  They
see someone arrive, die within an hour.  Kristine gets an IV of
medication.  She goes home but has to go back later.  She calls Joe,
who records their conversation.  One of her neighbors was screaming in
pain; she finds out he is expected to die.  She talks about how
difficult is acceptance of death.<ref name=nature />
50:50: Joe tells of going to a birthday party.  Someone tells
the story of the antics of comedy writer Norman Wexler: buying
everything in a bakery, taking a dump at LAX. <ref name=nature />
<ref>According to his IMDB page, 'Andy Kaufman's character of "Tony
Clifton" was partially based on Norman Wexler' and 'Wexler was the
mysterious "Mr. X" referred to in Bob Zmuda's biography of Andy
Kaufman, "Andy Kaufman Revealed".
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923319/</ref>
55:10: Kornfield tells us how large the universe is.<ref name=nature />
59:00: Kristine tells Joe how horny she is; she wants to have Tantric
sex this summer.
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*Joe: He contemplates his successful neighbors, being alone.  He babysits for them; mentions his experience with cancer; talks about going to visit a dying uncle during a blackout and turning away out of fear that he would be blamed for the man's death.
*Joe: He contemplates his successful neighbors, being alone.  He babysits for them; mentions his experience with cancer; talks about going to visit a dying uncle during a blackout and turning away out of fear that he would be blamed for the man's death.
*[[Jack Kornfield]]: imagine being told a cancer diagnosis is a mistake.
*[[Jack Kornfield]]: imagine being told a cancer diagnosis is a mistake.
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*Kornfield: the scale of the universe, microscopic and cosmological empty space.  
*Kornfield: the scale of the universe, microscopic and cosmological empty space.  
*Debi: she wants tantric sex.
*Debi: she wants tantric sex.
 
</div></div>
== Music ==
== Music ==
{{Rearrange (Cinematic Orchestra)}} [Intro]
{{Rearrange (Cinematic Orchestra)}} [Intro]
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== Footnotes ==


[[Category:Karma_Style]]
[[Category:Karma_Style]]
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