Perhaps it would be better not to speak of change, but of opening, of expansion, of the

possibility of wisdom, ease, a compassionate heart, of opening beyond our limitations, our

small sense of self.

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For those of you who are here over the last couple of weeks, I did a two-part series of talks

about mindfulness of death and dying, particularly in relation to the death of my father. I spoke

about that extensively last week. I had a dream about him two nights ago. I was in a very

elegant hotel room with my wife and daughter. It was a hotel room similar to that, which

my mother stayed in the week before during the funeral in Philadelphia. We were there and my father

came into the room and started to fix the television. He took it apart and was installing this beam

splitter so the picture could go several different places at once. When we were children, he

built us the first television in the neighborhood in 1949 from a radar. He had a green radar

screen and these little puppets, what Kukla Fran and Ollie on the screen, radar screen. That

was one of the things he did. He was there fixing the television. My daughter Caroline

said, but Daddy, what is he doing here? I thought that your father died. I turned to him and

I said, oh, he doesn't know he's dead. Then he finished fixing it and got it all working. Then

I looked at him and I said, you know, you look really good, Dad. He looked younger like 50 instead

of 75 and healthier and better. I said, I'm really happy to see you. I missed you, but I'm sorry to

tell you this that you've died. He looked at me a little bit puzzled, but there was a way in which

he also knew already what I had to say to him and he kind of acknowledged that and then he vanished.

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