[joe-frank-list] 'Karma, part 6'

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	Joe doesn't answer calls or e-mails from Kate for 2 weeks.
She calls at 6 AM - he picks up.  She's sick, can't work, wants Joe to
know how much she misses, needs him.  Joe says he loves her too.  They
talk about how to repair their relationship.  Kate visits Florence
with a friend, which makes Joe jealous.
	4:30: Joe attributes his jealousy to his mother's 'wandering
eye', her interest in men, her sexual appetite.  When he was a boy, he
felt inadequate to her need; betrayed him; he hated her for this.
About her second marriage Joe felt that it was because he wasn't 'man
enough'.
	6:00: Joe talks about her TV watching: old romances.  One
night he hears her moaning in bed.
	7:00: Joe describes the Big Bang, leading up to life on Earth.
(originally aired in 'The nature of things')
	8:40: Joe's mother talks about what she's watching on TV, what
happened on 'Ally McBeal', 'A touch of mink'.  She took her
hairdresser out on Mother's Day.
	11:00: Kristine McKenna talks about bad relationships,
mentions one of hers.  She draws a parallel between romantic love and
extreme performance art.  She tells of Chris Burden, the performance
artist who had himself shot, crucified on a Volkswagen, sealed in a
box for 3 days (true! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burden )
then the Viennese Actionists
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennese_actionists), one of whom cut
off slices of his penis.  (These are unpleasant to read about.)
	14:00: Jack Kornfield tells of a woman whose husband had died.
They were involved in the spiritual community.  3 friends told her
different stories about what had happened to him - they had seen him.
The stories disagreed, so she asked Kornfield to sort it out.  He told
her to focus on what she knew.  He quoted Suzuki Roshi's single
comment that embodies Zen: 'Not always so.'  He tells us that we
should focus on what we know.
	21:30: Larry Block tells of a relationship with a woman 25
years ago, when he was one of the Dromios in 'Comedy of errors' in
Shakespeare in the park. (1975).  He had a brief passionate
relationship with the woman, was distraught when it ended.  It seems
to be a different woman than the similar relationship in the same year
he describes in 'Karma part 1'.
	29:50: Joe talks about animals that eat other animals,
particularly gruesomely, including the hatchetfish, with its
luminescent anus (marine hatchetfish,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternoptychidae), and the violin spider
(recluse spider? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recluse_spider) -
examples of God's grace.  (originally aired in 'The nature of things')
	32:30: Jack Kornfield tells of explaining a passing satellite
to an old monk, who didn't even know the Earth was round.  Kornfield
points out that this fellow was venerated for his wisdom, how wisdom
is different from knowledge.  (originally aired in 'The nature of
things')
	36:50: Kornfield tells of the Korean Zen master San Se Neen
(sp?) who teaches his students to cultivate 'don't know mind'.
	38:00: Kristine says that she spent most of her life thinking
that she didn't deserve someone nice, and her relationships lived up
to her expectation.  Her parents had an unhappy relationship.  It took
a long time for her to learn that sex could contribute to her life.
She remembers a girlhood crush, Bruce Lee Barnes.  She got drunk and
made it with a friend.  After that she had 7 bad relationships in a
row.
	43:30: Joe imagines taking a plane to Rome, all the things
Kate and he will do.
	47:10: Kornfield tells of the rabbi who asked his students how
they could know when the night had ended and the day had begun.
	49:50: Kornfield leads a meditation, asking how our heart
responds to different circumstances.
	53:10: A flight attendant's instructions to passengers before
take-off.
	54:40: Joe talks about love, that pop songs are about love,
never about business affairs or unpleasant family matters.
	57:00: 'I've got you under my skin' (Frank Sinatra)

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