[joe-frank-list] 'Karma, part 2'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	Larry describes drinking tequila with salt and lemon, that he
drinks too much.  He buys groceries that he will regret eating later.
He compares himself to Cinderella.
	3:10: Joe imagines sitting in a small bar in Rio, watching
Kate dancing alone to a band - she's so beautiful.  She gestures Joe
to join her, but Joe can't move, which makes her angry.
	5:00: Joe talks to Kate on the phone: she tells him she danced
to a jukebox at an empty Mexican bar that day; the songs included
Jobim's 'Brazil' (which Joe used a lot in the 'Karma' shows).
	7:00: Jack Kornfield describes spiritual practice.  He tells
of the Burmese monk who wanted to set himself on fire because he had
fallen in love with a woman.
	11:00: Larry reads Joe a poem, 'My poem is written in a
fragile book, unbound...'  He compares it to fish dying in a Chinese
market.  Joe says he'd duct-tape the fishmonger's mouth shut to show
him how it feels.  Joe claims he pushed a fisher off the Venice pier -
he didn't just write a poem about it.
	14:20: Kate tells Joe she had a dream last night in which Joe
was a fish.  Joe interrupts her guessing wrongly about her dream.
Again a man, Joe has a relationship with a Jewish woman instead of
her.
	18:50: Kornfield tells of Kahlin (sp?) Rinpoche, a 'wonderful
old Tibetan lama'.  At the Boston aquarium he prays for the
enlightenment of the fish.
	20:10: Larry reads the poem he wrote for Rosalie, talks about
her desire to collaborate on writing a book about love through the
ages; Larry wants to rent a cabin in the Berkshires; she wants to do
it via e-mail (He and Rosalie have to go to the library to use e-mail,
so it would take forever.)
	26:10: Larry says he'll take Joe's advice, exchange rhyming
couplets.  He thinks that's funny.
	27:30: Kornfield recalls a retreat in Massachusetts 15 years
ago.  He was scheduled to lead a loving-kindness meditation to close
the retreat.  Just before that he got a call from his girlfriend, got
into a big fight with her, was able to lead it despite his anger.
	31:00: Joe tells of a 'late night marathon phone
conversation'.  Kate remembers Joe supporting her when her father
wouldn't.  Joe wonders why, now that she's making big money for a
film, she doesn't dump him; Joe realizes the depth of her feelings for
the first time, but still has a lingering suspicion.
	32:30: Kornfield tells of the student who gets his sacred
mantra, rushes to the marketplace to tell it to everyone, thereby
shows his enlightenment.
	34:00: Kornfield tells of of Krishnamurti moving a rock in the
road.  
	34:50: Larry tells Joe he proposes to Rosalie staging Edward
Hopper-esque scenes instead.
	37:00: Kornfield tells of the psychology class in which every
student takes an orange from the bowl, describes it, returns it, then
finds his/her orange - they all do.
	39:20: Kornfield quotes Gide, 'Know that joy is rarer, more
difficult, and more beautiful than sadness...' (originally aired in
'The nature of things')
	39:50: Kornfield quotes Camus, 'A person's life is a slow trek
to rediscover through the detours of art those 2 or 3 moments in whose
presence the heart first opened.'  (originally aired in 'The nature of
things')
	41:30: Joe and Kate are in the second hour of the
conversation.  Joe tells her he has to get to work on the show.  She
hangs up, then calls back to complain about him putting her off with
the same excuse.  They fight.
	51:50: Larry tells Joe that he's withdrawing emotionally from
Rosalie, tells Joe about Svengali.  He claims it's historical (it's a
novel, 'Trilby', written by George du Maurier in 1895.)  Larry
describes the 1931 movie 'Svengali', which starred John Barrymore.


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russell bell