Jim Rasa

[Guest guest]

Dearest Friends of the Sangha,

Yosy asked about our Beloved Friend, Jim Rasa, and having talked with

Jim on the phone several times recently, I can share with you some of

the things that I know of him and how he's doing concerning the colon

cancer and his life changes.

Bob and I were to meet with Jim at his home this past week-end and

spend a few days with him talking and getting caught up with all the

changes in all three of our lives, for they are many and they are

greatly challenging. Bob was in an auto accident which prevented us

reaching Jim's home as we had planned. Bob's okay, but the car's a

different story completely. We couldn't drive it and had to connect

with all the various places that fix, that adjust insaurances, that

collect police stuff, car rentals and hotel rentals and alot of

medical necessities that I had to take care of -- hospital records,

doctors medical notes, surgical data. It was a tangled web we had to

proceed through to get the entire view of what Love, God, This,

wanted to do with us.

We ended up being bound much of the time to the hotel room, Bob

becoming ill and feverish and I just doing what I do when my body

does what it will do - clown that it is. But, next week or the one

after, we are going back to get the repaired car and back to stay

with Jim at his home, as we had attempted to do already. Woo Yay! I

get to say, "I Love You, Darling Jim," straight-eyed staring and

weeping in greeting, embracing a man whom I hold in the highest

esteem and the greatest admiration. Jim is like no man I've ever had

the great good fortunate blessing to meet and to be able to call, 'My

Beloved Friend.' I can barely wait to run to him and sing and swing

him around in my arms and woo yay, woo yay, I get to say all those

things we sometimes forget to say to those whom we Love, or we put

off saying to those whom have come into our lives by Grace itself.

I will keep all our Friends here informed about our get together with

Jim. Jim's lost a lot of weight, he tells me, but he hasn't been

stopped, he goes dancing and he's living the Divine Romance with Love

Itself, evidenced and enhanced, to and through each one here who Loves

him, who cares about him and how he's facing this great challenge

while living alone. To tell someone that you Love them, to tell and

share with someone how much they mean to you, that's a wonderfully

easy thing to do -- just do it.

I Love Jim, Bob Loves Jim, and so many of you here, Love Jim. Tell

him, be there for him, Love him, if your Heart is inclined, never

fail to tell those whom you Love, that you Love them. For we can

never know the hour of our death. The Tibetan Buddhists have said

something like, "Meditate upon the hour of your death." Love those

whom God has put into your life, and Love them well and true, as God,

as Love, Loves You.

Here below is the original email I sent to Vicki Woodyard's nondualnow group about Jim --

 

"Dear Friends,

Friday we’re driving down south, to the foothills to spend time with a

friend, a most Beautiful friend who’s been a great gift to us, who’s

always given us so much love, entirely without condition, and so much

kindness, it nearly blinds the heart with gratitude to have him as our

friend. He is a true benefactor of genuine hospitality – many of you

know him, and his name is Jim Rasa.

Jim’s been diagnosed with colon cancer, and he’s living alone, and we,

Bob and me, we can barely wait until Friday arrives so we can get on

the road and get to his home, just to hold him, just to see him again

and to spend this time with him. Jim is like no man I’ve ever met, and

ever since the first day that I met him and was greeted with such an

incredible, deep embrace, face to face, eye to tear-shiny eyes, I

knew that he was different, more than different … Jim was a unique

and special gift to me and to Bob from, well, what we still refer to

and call – God. From and as Love alone, just showing Itself in this

man and how he acted, how he spoke, how he did everything so calmly,

so quietly, and those eyes! Those beautiful wonderful mirth-filled

eyes! Oh how Jim makes me laugh…. And at last once again, I can hold

my Beloved Friend in my arms and laugh and weep, and share our grief

and joy, our hopes and fears… all our dreams come true and the dreams

that fell through, we long to share everything that we are and that we

feel and that we can and will experience, when we greet each other,

Brother and Sister together again, and now, right now in our hearts

we are aware that we are never apart, intuiting and resting in this,

by Grace, face to face and heart to silent speaking heart in the Love

that rules these lives, and that we are.

Jim Rasa having cancer, going through this, this sweetest of beings,

it seems that I am weakened and strengthened, both, in this. A

stupid, painful paradox that is not lost on me.

If prayers are there in your heart, please impart them to our Beautiful friend.

We Love him so.

 

 

 

 

Jim Rasa along the Van Dusen river, near where we live ...

 

"Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a

mostpowerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your

goal.This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the

art ofliving in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The

fruit ofit is happiness, uncaused and endless."~ Sri Nisargadatta

Love,

Mazie

[Guest guest]

, "Mazie Lane" <sraddha54@h...>

wrote:

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mazie beloved thank you for you , and for your post. inshallah our

dear jim is feeling good... i understand from your post that he is

alone. so, his partner left... nothing like a time of need to find

out who true friends and lovers are. as expected, rats abandon

sinking ship. and though you did not reach him yet physically, your

love and intents benefit him much more then a visit from a hypocrite.

btw, is jim a member of any internet groups? this can be a good

source of virtual companionship; which, too, can be of real value at

such time. in any case, i wish him best of health from the bottom of

my heart.

 

 

how about you, my beloved oneheart bobzie? screw the car... are you

both well? did bob recover completely? and you? seems you needed a

short time-out in this hotel room...

 

stay in peace,

i love you my friends

 

yosy

[Guest guest]

There are many who idealistically parrot Rumi's cry, "I want burning!",

but few of us are practiced enough to stand in the middle of it when

that wish is granted, inquire, and understand.

The fruit of understanding is the Welcoming Embrace -- this is true

understanding, this is the practice and realization both, this is

everything. Jim is an example of someone who has benefitted from the

omnidirectional Grace of Ramana Guru to the point not just of hearing,

but of living the recognition, even in the midst of profound tests. It

is very gratifying to see such evidence of the fire of Truth having its

way, and out of the ashes, the birth of an unconditional Love that's

here to stay! God Is Gracious!

 

 

LoveAlways