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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
[[Milton Schindler]] tells of working in Vernon <ref>a small town | |||
in Los Angeles county, population about 70, incorporated by businesses | |||
to prevent incorporation into the city of Los Angeles or some other | |||
city, thus avoiding property taxes to support schools and local | |||
government. Los Angeles county has a few cities that did this; others | |||
include Commerce and Industry.</ref> in 1959. He was seeing a | |||
psychiatrist for his difficulties<ref>unnamed</ref>. For 5 or 6 months he | |||
flew to Las Vegas on Friday nights to gamble. He won in the | |||
beginning. <ref>He was with his friend Frank DiSalvo and his wife.</ref> He | |||
stopped seeing the psychiatrist and went to Vegas instead. He claims | |||
he won tens of thousands the first 8-9 months - then lost big, kited | |||
checks, got $80-100K in debt. A big fire destroyed his business<ref>making picture tubes</ref>. Thugs from one of the casinos threatened him. | |||
He never paid them back, never went back to Vegas. | |||
7:10: A woman recounts a dream: a bunch of men in the room are | |||
talking politics; she tells them this is really all about throwing a | |||
cow off a cliff, that men abuse women. A man says that women have all | |||
the power, another ([[Larry Block]]) agrees. A group discusses the | |||
relationships of men and women. John suggests he may kill himself. | |||
<ref>This is the group therapy by phone session originally in | |||
[[When I'm Calling You]].</ref> | |||
18:20: [[Jack Kornfield]] recounts the story of Groucho Marx | |||
and the woman with 22 children<ref>'I love my cigar...' - this comes from | |||
Groucho's game show, 'You bet your life', | |||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Bet_Your_Life</ref> to introduce talking | |||
about wanting. | |||
20:50: Joe tells of working for a used-car dealer in DC, | |||
buying a used car; a week later he finds it's stolen. Joe confronts | |||
the guy (Brooks) who sold him the car; the police aren't interested. | |||
Joe chases him in his boss's Audi<ref>Joe says they went west on | |||
16<sup>th</sup> Street - 16<sup>th</sup> runs north-south, as do all | |||
numbered streets in DC.</ref>; they take US route 50 into Prince | |||
George's county (Maryland). Brooks exits, stops. He and Joe fight, | |||
then laugh and make friends.<ref>originally in [[Green Cadillac]]</ref> | |||
30:20: Kornfield tells of the guy who wandered the world | |||
looking for happiness, failed, gave up, stopped to rest under | |||
Kalpataru, the 'great wish-fulfilling tree' | |||
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpavriksha), which grants all his | |||
wishes. | |||
33:50: A guy with a Russian accent ([[Milio Brodski]]) lives in | |||
San Francisco. His friend Slava calls from New York; Slava's mother | |||
is dying of cancer, wants guy to come keep him company, so guy flies | |||
to NYC. The mother set up a business to restore books for the public | |||
library. She hired Slava, who ran the business into the ground. She | |||
dies before the guy arrives. The guy arranges the funeral - Slava | |||
said he couldn't. Slava wants it cheap. The discount rabbi mixes her | |||
eulogy up with others'. Slava dies from an overdose a year later. | |||
44:20: Kornfield recalls coming back from the monastery the | |||
first time, his first girlfriend. He can't express a preference, | |||
which drives her crazy. | |||
46:20: Schindler says you don't have to lie<ref>and that he's | |||
64. He was born in 1925.</ref> A woman is interviewing him. She asks | |||
him about lying. He says faithfulness is an illusion. He claims the | |||
greatest thing is losing all sexual energy. | |||
49:20: Kornfield tells us that the more attention we pay, the | |||
more we realize our one-ness with nature, that the idea that we are | |||
separate individuals is a delusion. He says that grasping causes | |||
suffering. He says that Suzuki roshi | |||
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki) summed up the teaching of | |||
Zen with, 'Not always so'. | |||
54:10: Schindler tells a story from ancient Greece, 4th-5th | |||
century BCE: you got a 4-week vacation; you wrote an admission | |||
'ticket' on which you listed all your sorrows. You handed over your | |||
ticket then got to do anything you wanted: sex, orgies, dancing, | |||
music, feasts... When you leave you get your neighbor's | |||
'ticket'.<ref>I don't recognize this story, don't find Milton | |||
Schindler a reliable source.</ref> | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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*[[Milton Schindler]] wins big at Keno his first time in Los Vegas. A warehouse fire and gambling debts, being visited by loan shark thugs. A suicide attempt. | *[[Milton Schindler]] wins big at Keno his first time in Los Vegas. A warehouse fire and gambling debts, being visited by loan shark thugs. A suicide attempt. | ||
*Phone therapy session: a dream in which a man throws a cow over a cliff, women as custodians of the sexual encounter, women as cows, what are fortunate people unhappy, who would miss us? | *Phone therapy session: a dream in which a man throws a cow over a cliff, women as custodians of the sexual encounter, women as cows, what are fortunate people unhappy, who would miss us? | ||
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*Kornfield - your food body. | *Kornfield - your food body. | ||
*Man - An ancient Greek holiday of total abandon, for which you write your troubles on an admission ticket. | *Man - An ancient Greek holiday of total abandon, for which you write your troubles on an admission ticket. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
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== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
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== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Karma_Style]] | [[Category:Karma_Style]] | ||