Guest guest Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 An aquaintance died today. Once a close friend of mine, we had moved apart in style and in life. It was a hardened passage. I no longer loved nor liked this person, nor he I. There had been business dealings between us that had soured all that. So severe were those issues that to this day, this day of his passage, we remained estranged. I am beckoned to the words of the practical Nazarene, to leave the dead to the dead. Yet he honored the patriarchs and the cousin, of whom those born of women he called greatest, and submitted himself to his baptism in the Jordan. Of his disciple John he was not immune from caring deeply. And this Nisargadatta who repudiated the living and dying of form as non-obtaining, Yet honored his guru and made ritual at his grave. With all our words of wisdom, our knowledge, experience, critical acumen and indeed Recognitions, Realizations, Epiphanies and the like, none of us UNDERSTAND. Any who say so are doubly deluded. I know that I don't know and I do know that I do know that no words can paint justly THAT which is. I did not like nor love this past aquaintance. But I know that he knew and in that we were ONE. Goodbye Fred. And it is still..., even with you soon to be below the earth of our fathers... still hard to even speak your name. ....bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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