FROM TED TOLLEFSON…
Dear Meditators,
This coming Sunday, Dec. 4, I will be speaking at the River Falls UU Society about The Unitarian-Buddhist Connection which has been important in my life and in many of our contemporary UU congregations. I will give special attention to practices that might unify our tribes and enrich our communities. Like Thoreau and Emerson, I meditate with eyes open as well as closed, while walking as well as sitting.
Here’s a poem I wrote along these lines for two friends from seminary, Ann & Barb, who have been together as a couple for over 40 years.
Please join us this coming Sunday at 10:30 am and invite friends who meditate.
Ted Tollefson
FOUR THINGS THAT CAN’T BE HIDDEN (Ted Tollefson)
Old Buddha said there are 3 things
that can’t be hidden:
Sun, Moon, and Truth.
How did he miss the 4th?
that allows elder couples
to feel like newlyweds
and makes it possible
to find our beloved
even in the dark
or in a half-remembered dream.
Any kind of love
proclaims itself
with or without words
there’s no denying
a connection like that
even curmudgeons grin
as Sun and Moon circle each other
and fill the sky
with their luminous longing.
Like it or not
Love needs a body
and some days ours will do—
to live with that music
in our bones and breath
generates waves of well-being
that would make Old Buddha bow
and kiss the earth again.