Special bows for today:
- Please continue to offer bows of well-being and recovery for Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who had surgery yesterday for bladder cancer
- Please continue to offer bows of well-being and recovery for Brendan Haimson, Kate Haimson’s son, who had a successful surgery yesterday for a brain aneurism
- Please continue to offer bows of well-being and recovery for Lilith Armitage, Shannon Bergman's daughter who had a successful knee surgery two days ago
Contributed by Diane Comey, our dharma sister in Kauai:
At forty, Franz Kafka, who had no children,
was walking through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying
because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll
unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would
come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the
doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter 'written' by the doll saying, "Please
don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my
adventures."
Thus began a story which continued until the
end of Kafka's life. During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll
carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found
adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he
bought one) that had returned to Berlin. "It doesn't look like my doll at
all," said the girl. Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll
wrote: "My travels have changed me." The little girl hugged the new
doll and took her home, happy. A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a
letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter, signed by Kafka, it said,
"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will
return in another way."
Reminder: If you wish to
make a comment or offer a contribution as Diane has done, click on the comment box at
the bottom of this blog and add what you wish. I am hoping that many of you will add your
thoughts as the days go by. Thanks, Misha Shungen!
And the people stayed home.
ReplyDeleteAnd read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.
And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows.
And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed.
And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed."
~Kitty O'Meara
It reminds me of the story that I just saw about the dolphins returning to Venice and the patches of little pollution over the 'quarantine' areas. I'm excited to see what the ISS will show now that all of CA is under a shelter-in-place order. It brings me hope that we really can change our course with regards to the planet.
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