Jasper,

Love you too, man.

And I don’t disagree with anything you have written.  But I wonder just how he is now presented to those convicts, what the
current spin is?, and would be interested to know (short of doing something
that would leave me incarcerated in an Irish prison).

For me the interesting conversation is around how good can come from sketchy
circumstances, and whether (from the perspective of a convict that would not
otherwise be exposed to something like meditation) this exposure will have a
beneficial effect on them and thus positively impact those around him.  Can we REALLY assume that we know the answer
to this?

The storybooks are full of flawed ‘spiritual teachers’ that have inspired positive
change.  Like Trungpa, who was flawed but
I found to be very lovable, fascinating and inspirational.  Sucks that I ended up spending as much time as I did with
the bloated one.

M