{"id":3251,"date":"2011-10-25T11:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2022-11-12T23:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T04:36:52","slug":"the-channels-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"The Channel’s Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"

⇐ The Nuns teach him Tantra<\/a>How to Lick a Toad ⇒<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI see. Those mathematicians figure things out the best way. And what happened to you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was relieved of my post as abbot. Since I had no worldly skills at all, they found me a position as an advisor to the King of Nepal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat sound like a cushy job. What could go wrong there?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would think? I was put in charge of assigning Sherpa guides to European tourists, who began arriving in great numbers after the war. I was also allowed to offer short meditation retreats to Westerners.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat must have brought you some spiritual satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot really. They were usually more concerned about the karmic destinies of their household pets. And I kept hoping for news about any advances in quantum physics, a topic which held no interest for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow long did that gig last?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA few years, until the Chinese managed to rile up some communist agitators \u2026 not too many, but enough to cause problems, and worry the King a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure they didn\u2019t like Buddhist monks, either. But you were there to guide the King. I\u2019m sure you took much from the Tao Te Ching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn retrospect, I should have read that \u2026 it was in the monastery library. Unfortunately, one day there was a minor, but vociferous, demonstration outside. The King comes to me, explaining that the people are hungry and they have no chapatti. What should he tell them, the King asks me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Tell them\u2019, I said detachedly, \u2018Let them eat cake\u2019\u201d.
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\n\u201cSo the King goes on the balcony and repeats my words. I\u2019ll tell you, that mob had no sense of humor. They got angry and some of them stormed the palace, and actually broke through the guard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWow! That must have been a frightening moment. Was that a close call?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cClose call? They shot me in the back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cowards!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had gone down to the kitchen. I loaded up all the loaves of chapatti in a knapsack, hoping to wend my way back to Tibet. The caught me trying to climb out a window.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t they know man does not live by bread alone? So it seems you survived.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou still don\u2019t get it, kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next thing I knew was that I was walking along the beach. There were scattered sun bathers on the sand. Birds, looking much like a sort of raven, walked in groups of two or three, speaking to each other in English. The sun bathers seemed not to even notice. I exclaimed to no one in particular, \u201cHey, these birds are talking!\u201d and woke up with a start.<\/p>\n

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