Although I first saw the Vidyadhara in my 1st year of college, and later in Evanston….one could only guess if I would have become a member of this community, if I hadn’t met Max King. He travelled from I gather Berkeley to Sonoma County, CA, in 1975, offered a class in Buddhist Psychology…..and, for me, the rest is history. I’m pretty sure he brought up with him an “in the works” manuscript from the Myth of Freedom, and shared that with us, as well, combining meditation, with teaching about buddhist psychology, with office hours included. We’d only be in touch a couple of more times over the years. Early, I got to see you fundraise for something like a lavish set of chopsticks as a gift for the Vidyadhara at one of his trips to Berkeley…maybe in that same year, when he did the Wisdom & Skillful Means Seminar…not sure. But, I had cause to think of you often. You served in the most able of ways as so many of us try to do, carrying the banner of confidence for our teacher. I think you described enlightenment once….as being in the most extroverted of frames…I can’t remember what you said exactly. You shared about the 6 realms with us, and with me. And, when I met with you for office hours, with you drinking tea, and my sharing from you how the thing about spiritual materialism seemingly makes the project all too near impossible…you took my concerns in stride. And…I am here. I’m so sorry you’re not, Max. I thank you so very much for having offered that course, and having been a teacher to me…and many others. Ira Zukerman DC