BEg2 chapter 12 digging in to summary

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 12:53:39 UTC 2022


Let's not overlook that an emotherapist is a joke of a therapist. P has
created this compound word, ya know. (he's created others in BE,
Shakespeare-like)
Emo therapist is how it appears in real life but it isn't *really* a thing.

What is Emotherapy? - meaning and definition - Slang Define
<https://slangdefine.org/e/emotherapy-2660.html>
https://slangdefine.org › emotherapy-2660
<https://slangdefine.org/e/emotherapy-2660.html>
A form of rehabilitation of the mind by means of excessive and continuous
whining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JRKqmFvyI
Emotherapy - 1. A form of rehabilitation of the mind by means of excessive
and continuous whining. I highly recommend you continue your emotherapy.


https://emofree.com/unseen-therapist/prelim/read-this-first.html

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 6:30 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
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