[joe-frank-list] Jack Kornfield

[Sally]

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On Jun 19, 2006, at 12:48 AM, Jeff Anton wrote:

> It took quite a while for me to stop being annoyed by Jack's voice
> in Joe's work.  For me, Jack seems like a pale, monotone and overly
> simple version of Alan Watts.  Having heard many of the recordings
> of Alan Watts' lectures, Jack puts me to sleep.  Alan's talks and
> stories seem very much more like Joe's work to me.  I've also thought
> that Joe might have run out of his own point of view.  Joe's early
> work was often actors doing some reading with Joe as a kind of
> narrator or chorus pointing something out.  When Jack Kornfield
> showed up, I felt that Joe deligated the narrator/chorus role to
> Jack because so much of those shows are Joe and Frank or Debi on
> the phone.
>
> Jeff Anton
>
> Sally wrote:
>> I would absolutely love to hear what everyone's take on Jack   
>> Kornfield is, and what they think Joe's take on him is.
>> I initially regarded them ironically, and assumed Joe was using  
>> them  as counterpoint to Debi (who seems after a sense of  
>> spiritual  fulfillment) and also sometimes Larry (who seems to  
>> misunderstand  Jack completely). But, now I've actually gotten  
>> really into them. I  feel like Joe is using them to condemn Debi  
>> and Larry's world view.  But, then, does Joe subscribe to Jack's  
>> philosophies?
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