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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Larry explains that he feels uncomfortable if he eats when he's sober
because the food he likes is so bad for him, he'd feel guilty eating
it if he were sober.  Joe points out that alcohol is bad for him too.
He'd only ride his motorcycle when he was drunk because it seemed so
dangerous.  He woke up in the hospital at UCLA once.
5:50: Jack Kornfield reads a poem from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir Kabir] about how he keeps
grasping then tells us about
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evagrius_Ponticus Evagrius, a desert monk of the fourth century],
the demons he battled.
8:00: Larry tells Joe that Zach told him he was going to smoke
grass.<ref>Larry tells a similar story in [[At Last]]</ref>
10:30: Kornfield talks about the problems with desire, that we always
want more, that we have to learn to deal with it in order not to
succumb to it.
16:30: Zach mixes music from 20 sources; Joe thinks it's cacophonous;
Larry disagrees.
19:00: Kornfield tells [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasrudin Nasrudin]'s
story of the old man who went looking for something new.
Nasrudin stole his bag, took a shortcut - the man was happy when he
found his bag, illustrating Kornfield's lesson that what matters is
not what we have but how we relate to it.
21:40: Kristine McKenna tells about a friend who was stressed out from
the work being done on her kitchen floor; Kristine thinks this is a
small matter, but that each person's troubles are big to them.  She
says her natural state is troubled and melancholy.  She and Joe
speculate that distressing external events can distract people from
their personal problems.  She tells us what Leonard Cohen has to say
about it.
28:00: Kornfield talks about the 'great doubt': how can we live our
lives from the deepest place of our heart.
29:50: Larry recalls the summer camp he attended as a boy.  He wanted
to belong to the camp's Sanhedrin (apparently it was Jewish) but was
never remarkable enough.  He describes the ritual of induction to the
Sanhedrin in detail.
41:40: Kornfield tells a Nasrudin story about looking for his key
outside even though he lost it inside because the light's better
outside as an illustration of people who look for happiness by looking
on the outside rather than the inside.
44:20: Kornfield tells another Nasrudin story.  He tries to cash a
check at the bank.  The teller wants him to identify himself, so
Nasrudin pulls out a mirror and looks at himself, confirms his
identity.
45:30: Larry tells a joke about 2 guys at Spago, they scope a
beautiful woman.
46:10: Larry tells a joke about the actor who comes home to find out
that his agent killed his wife, the guy is happy that his agent came
to visit him.
48:40: Kornfield tells us that Buddha means awake, that we can
cultivate being awake, that we have to deal with the world the way
that it is.  He tells the Zen joke about the 2 monks, one of whom
helps a woman across a river.  He expatiates on avoiding distraction.
57:20: Debi calls.  She started to cry while she was on hold, has been
crying all day.  She grew up with lies, wonders what lies she's still
living with.
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*Larry - getting drunk and eating bad things.  Aborted motorcycle rides to Mexico.  Drunken and stoned motorcycle escapades and waking up in the hospital.
*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.
*Kornfield - the mind holds on to its link with the world.
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*Kornfield - what is listening, meditation?
*Kornfield - what is listening, meditation?
*Debi - Tears after a discussion of lying.  
*Debi - Tears after a discussion of lying.  
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== Credits ==
From the broadcast, 'You've been listening to Joe Frank "The other
side".  This program was called "Waiting for Karma" with Larry Block,
Kristine McKenna, Debi Mae West, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, and
Joe Frank; production: J. C. Swiatek; music consultant: Thomas
Golubic&#263;; production assistance: Esmé Gregson'


== Music ==
== Music ==
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{{Doris Dub (Tosca)}} [21:15]
{{Doris Dub (Tosca)}} [21:15]


== Footnotes ==


[[Category:Larry Block]]  
[[Category:Larry Block]]  
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