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‘ Lebanon? a

Msracli gunboats had blockaded a

: ferry from Cyprus carrying Mother

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SOONER OR LATER, onc has to make up one" s mind: Is
life a spiritual journey or not? If you decide iti is, then
_ everything — naturally — turns into a spiritual affair.

Alt the downtown Toronto tem-
porary quarters of the film centre
: where I'm studying, it turns out
there are only two screenwriters in
the 12-person group. The others
are producers and directors.

The other writer turns out to be |

from Halifax. He also turns out to
be a convert to Tibetan Buddhism
who was present at a ceremony in,
Vancouver's Bayshore Inn in'1975
when Gyalwa Karmapa the 16th
performed the Black Hat Ceremo-
ny..

1

i away, } run into a guy from
Halifax who hands me a color
snapshot, taken by himself, ‘at that
very same Blagk Hat Ceremony.

This guy and 1, of course, im-
mediately become involved in an
ongoing dialogue about Buddhisin.

So.here I, am, in a grey building:
on Bloor Street near Yonge -~ the
very epiceriire of commercialism in ’
this countiy — discussing, of all /

things, karma — with, of all peor’ .

ple,a fellow Canadian writer who
actually. meditated on a mountain
in Tibet, 1) ,
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LT sraeti gunboats had blockaded a ferry ‘from

Cyprus carrying Mother,
her camera:crew. :

Theresa, my colleague and

At dawn, after. a a few days sof circling helplessly
in the Mediterranean, the sdintly old nun wenton
deck, meditated then threw! a necklace with the
Virgin Mary’ s likeness into, the/water.”

mysterious ancient ceremony/had

been performed outside of ‘Tibet. J {

te. would have i it, tals was,
thet

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; ‘take a photograph durihg the cer
emony, but not doing: it.:In fact,
. nobody. in our grousy’ of abouts

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eral ‘of us had cajhera :

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‘have often wished I'd taker,

Years later, the Karmapa’ died. I, i
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appened to him? When he got to
_ the top and got into his full lotus
position and yoga-breathed and all
“that, waiting for the Big Zap, he:
heard, sure enough, @ sound — but
“iC tuned out to be a Tibetan pea-"’
| sarit sauntering by, a tape deck

; -sttapped over his donkey, playing
* a Hindu version of rock n’ roll;

Just the sort of thing one. would .

A expect to happen on a spiritual
« journey! . - wo
Another member of my, film :
class: turns out to be a lady film. -

- 2. maker who produced an ‘incredible
"documentary about none other. ‘
oe than Mother Theresa, :

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rs living”

camera crew, ‘

At dawn, after a Sew days of
circling helplessly in the Mediter-
rancan, the saintly old nun went |
on deck, meditated then threw a
necklace with the Virgin Mary's
likeness into the water.

Within an hour, by amazing
coincidence, the Isractis reversed |
their position — duc to political.
decisions in distant Tel Aviv —:
allowing the ferry through. \

Whether it was a miracle or not,
it felt like one to the filmmaker.'
And that’s half the experience,
sure enough... ©

I should add that as she was tell-
ing me this story, another rather |
interesting coincidence occurred. |

We were seated at a window jn |
an annex facing northwest on .
Bioor, which means that we were»,
perched on the edge of a canyon of
glass and concrete upon which the
direct fight of the sun falls only! for
a few seconds each day at dusk).

From the moment the lady
filmmaker started relaiing her
story about Mother Theresa, that
beam of sunset light fell on her |
face, 2nd faded - hey, f was wat- |
ching this! — within seconds of
her finishing what she had to say. .

Well, my hair stood on end} ’

At the very least/it was nice the :
way it happened. You don't get’
first-hand reports on candidates

. for sainthood that often, and as

for the light ... another one of
those darned coincidences, ob-
viously,

But never mind. The script we

' were working on concerned a
. character the filmmaker had in-
“vented who was, as itturned out,
. somebody who had read a Suft

book’ on/music, .
This prompted her to get a ‘eopy,

of the book for axe the next day,

which led to me Finding myself sit--

ating at/home, reading some power.

“ful spiritual literature about the, ,
~ mmusielof the spheres in front of: ry

; hota of a Tibetan version of a.

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saint:
“Ani ai suburb of. Toronto, yet.

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Which, of course, is all iusion.©

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