www.dharmaoverground.org/documents/portl...86-90c1-bf2646c2ea02
All occurrences of the word pizza in Kenneth's book:
"Bill suggested that I go to Asia, check myself into a monastery, and get stream entry. So that’s
what I decided to do. At the time, I only cared about meditation. The rest of my life didn’t matter.
Bill told me: “Everything you do in order to make your next retreat possible is part of your
practice.” I found this vastly empowering; now it was possible to view all aspects of my life as
supporting my practice, rather than getting in the way of it. I had a job delivering pizzas at
Domino’s Pizza, which was demoralizing due to the low wage. Again, Bill came to the rescue:
“Just figure out how many pizzas you need to hustle to buy a ticket to Burma. Then, get busy.”
I got busy. Although I didn’t earn much at the pizza store, my goal was concrete, and I could see
progress each day as my piggy bank filled up. I sold my car and bought a one-way ticket to
Malaysia, understanding that I was going to meditate at a Burmese-style monastery in Penang
while applying for a visa to continue on to Burma. I didn’t know when or whether I would return
home. In fact, returning home was the furthest thing from my mind. I planned to get enlightened.
"
Daniel's mention of Kenneth delivering pizza:
www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/par...ark-night-gets-ugly/
"I used those tickets to go to California for a few days in December 1995, to see Kenneth in his rundown trailer in a small dusty desert town that smelt pungently of agriculture. He was living with a girlfriend, delivering pizza, and just chilling out. He was probably second path by this point, and somewhere in there had done another retreat in Burma. He told me more about the maps and gave me some pointers on how to perceive some subtleties about impermanence, drawing an incomplete circle on the ground with a stick to represent the arising and passing of phenomena; that somehow made a strong impression on me, and helped me get a sense of how to see the end of phenomena to help achieve stream entry. "
And Ron Crouch on Pizza in Siberia:
alohadharma.com/2014/07/24/eating-pizza-in-siberia/
"A student recently asked about the relationship between psychedelics and awakening. “It’s kind of like…” I thought for a moment, searching for the right analogy and coming up short. But as so often happens in these situations, the next thing out of my mouth surprised us both, “it’s like …eating pizza in Siberia.”"