William Lapp:
CLASS OF 1976
Williamsville North High SchoolClass of 1976
Williamsville, NY
University of CaliforniaClass of 1998
San francisco, CA
SUNY at Buffalo - Graduate SchoolClass of 1988
Buffalo, NY
SUNY at Buffalo - Arts & SciencesClass of 1980
Buffalo, NY
William's Story
Life in San Francisco is still "Rocking!" Me? I am just a scientist who thinks about multivariance more than most anything else. I love the great variety of people, look after my friends as good as I can, and hope for a better world. I lived in Oakland, CA, for about 4 months, then knew it was time to leave - too much violence, thugging and nonsense. San Francisco is my home, there or Amsterdam or Roma. Ah, even in SF, there I was just sitting down in the afternoon to watch Robocop, when, suddenly real automatic gunfire breaks out and a 17 year old kid gets killed. Sad to see his father try to get to him and the cops telling him, "He'll be alright..." when I see his unblinking eyes staring up at the blue California sky for maybe one last time if he ...Expand for more
hadn't already gone to the greater reality. Let's try to love each other this day and the next and the next, until even my wild-eyed friends on Haight Street are regarded with the respect they deserve.
Here is a poem:
A Lotus Flower for You
I perceive you as "He-who-is-seen"
By fish in the ocean and fish in the stream
By people who love you, by flowers and trees
Floating along on a Samadhi Breeze
May the clear light of Buddha
Shine through us all, illumine our hearts,
Knock down our walls.
We enter the Dharma as you told us we could
And sit to realize our own Buddhahood.
You speak of the Dharma, enliven the Sangha,
Are manifest Buddha, beyond the five Skandas
Pure-and-Bright-Excellence with nothing to win,
The Sun and the Moon show us where to begin.
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