Tomorrow is my father’s funeral. He died just over two weeks ago.
I have nothing remotely profound to say on the subject. Time has flowed on … and thoughts and feelings have come and gone. Things have been arranged, and challenges taken up.
So much seems to have happened, such an extraordinary mixture of rich experiences.
I reflect that when my mother died some 20 years ago, before I had the benefit of Dharma, I was utterly devastated, and it dominated the following years.
My father’s death comes at a time when I have some support and perspective in Dharma … what an extraordinary blessing that is. I am surely amidst waves, currents and ocean, and yet I can still see what is wave, what is current and what is ocean.
There is a continuity … my dad is present now, profoundly so ….. I miss seeing him physically, but his presence is strong nevertheless.
An amazing man …. how blessed I have been to have him as a father ….
How can we ever repay the blessings we have been given?
May all beings experience a Precious Human Life, and realise its fulfillment, in complete and perfect Enlightenment.
