BEg2 chapter 12 digging in to summary

[Michael Bailey]

Joseph Tracy wrote:

Downtown to see Shawn the emotherapist, she tells him Horst is back,
he asks ”back?” she doesn’t know,  ends up sitting quiet for session.


Thanks for the summary, Joseph!

Shawn “ looks like he’s just pulled an all-nighter at a
sensory-deprivation tank.”

Hey! I’ve tried those but never an all-nighter. They do offer them. I
think if he relaxed, he would’ve had a great night’s sleep.

I always got fidgety around an hour, probably because I knew the time
was going to be up, even getting up to check…even though a buzzer was
going to go off. But the rest of the time was tres relaxing.

Maybe Shawn is looking refreshed or maybe his hair is wet.


Church of Elvis in Las Vegas - bunches of similar names, no exact
match (though there is a church of St John Coltrane in San Francisco)


What would Dōgen do?

https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/dogen-his-life-religion-and-poetry/

He’d probably found a monastery or write a poem or something, but
since they only have an hour, Maxine opts to sit.

Neither Maxine nor Shawn delves into the finer points of Soto Zen; the
point might be more about looking for an example in keeping with the
spirit of emotherapy, like those wwjd bracelets for a different belief
system.