Richard J. Williams wrote:

>TurquoiseB wrote:
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>>Interestingly, the groups in town with the best
>>"rep" among the service industry were the Tibetans.
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>Get a grip, Uncle - there weren't any Tibetans in Sante Fe in the 
>70's, except for Chogyam Trungpa, who visited that town once for a 
>weekend meditation seminar. Most of the Tibetan refugees settled in 
>Washington and Texas, not in New Mexico. Apparently there's not a 
>single Tibetan in all of Sante Fe these days. Most of Trungpa's 
>students are Americans.
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>>No one ever had an unkind word to say about them.
>>They walked the walk of their beliefs, 
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>The students of Trungpa in Sante Fe in the 70's were some of the most 
>rowdy sadhaks I've ever met. They were the talk of the town, if not 
>the entire U.S. Buddhist community. Most of Trungpa's students that I 
>knew preferred Jim Beam, just like their guru did!
>
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>>and they treated anyone they interacted with as fellow
>>walkers.
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>I'm not Tibetan, but in those days, I tried to be nice to everyone!
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So what made you decide not to be nice anymore?  :)



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