Lewis MacAdams

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Lewis MacAdams

INTERNAL MEMO

You don't want to fall like Mullholland,

so you try to reign in your self-righteousness;

but it's not working. You're still stressed.

You need a stress test. Which you're going to get

in the next 24 hours or less I would guess, when you

try to separate the plodders from the plotters.

BUDDHIST MONEY

I attended a press conference held by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th

reincarnation of the Gyalwa Karmapa. Noting that he wasn't feeling

well, I asked him what lessons we could derive from being sick.

"Illness reminds us of the meaning of impermanence," he replied.

At the end of the Jack Kerouac School's second annual summer

session at Naropa Institute, teachers were re-paid by a fifteen minute

audience with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, the Buddhist University's

President. "What is love, Rinpoche?" I blurted out almost before I sat

down. Across the desk from me, Trungpa smiled and shrugged his

shoulders, palms up, as if to say "Who knows?"

from BLUE BOOK #3