The Stillness of the Heart
for my Father
You stood with Christ,
and you sit with Buddha
and you are the man of letters.
And you wrote many books.
Not just theory.
Real life,
real stories,
real people.
And I know life has not been easy for you.
Not when you left the paradise of childhood,
which was not so easy to live in for a sensitive soul like you.
Nor later
when you had to make tough choices
in the Heartless Institution,
that refused to change...
With the times.
I know it was not easy to leave
everything you knew behind
so many times.
But you followed your heart,
and you listened to the whispering of your soul.
And you set an example
and a precedent
for me to follow.
You never preached,
though you could do it,
very well, I was told.
You lead by example.
And it took me a while
to understand what you have to say.
And I am slowly starting to understand,
about how adding one drop of water
to the scorching desert of human suffering,
as The Mother said,
can be more than enough
a task for one life.
I wanted to change the world
by the force of mind.
and the shout of justice.
But I needed to get through my own hell,
to realize
that not only the Wave:
But the drop IS the ocean.
May we both grow
in the deepening of this realization.
You are sitting still.
I am still on my journeys,
exploring,
finding new facets of myself.
Until I come to place
when it is time to sit down
and melt into that on a little drop,...
That can, has, and will
in ways, none of us really understand,
save humanity in us
and us in
Humanity.
Thank you, Dad.
I LOVE YOU
your Son
Samo
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