The Last Room

A life-changing conversation over Tofu

“You need to undergo ego death,” a traveling mystic in blue jeans told me last summer while we shared a meal together at a retreat center. 

She was wearing the kind of orthopedic sandals that suggest she’s seen the Dalai Lama and also a very good podiatrist.

I picked my fork into a piece of tofu that was shaped like Vermont as I pondered her suggestio…