Will the Real Om Please Stand Up - Umberto Tosi
I've always loved the story that Groucho Marx quit the New York Friar's Club - famous for its celebrity membership, but packed with "barbers and dentists" according to Groucho - with a telegram that read: "Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member." I experienced de ja Groucho about that the other day when read an article about meditation during one of my habitual sorties of self-distraction - sometimes framed as research - while trying to write. I had just viewed a droll, You Tube clip from a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode in which Larry David "gives" his old mantra to comic Richard Lewis then asks "maybe I can get it back" just when Lewis had it working. Then the two bicker absurdly about the propriety of "splitting a mantra." The article on a more serious note, was about a Buddhist spinning mantra ring . I visualized such a ring on the hand of a short story charact...