For those of you interested in the Dharma, just wanted to let you know that
I spent 3 weeks this summer with the Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening
the Buddha Within.  He grew up Jewish in New York, and his mother calls him
the "Deli Lama;" he's also known as "Zorba the Lama."  Tibetan Buddhism is
like Zen except there are lots of colorful mandalas, bells and whistles,
vigorous chanting (we sounded like the Music of the Spheres) and tantric
sex, tho we didnt do any of the latter.

Namaste (I bow to the light within you)--RCL