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Tea With A Neighbour—Jogyata Dallas
“Sometimes I spend half an hour with a ninety year old neighbour two doors along on my street. Some say she is a little mad but her human face, the polite masks and conventions of behavior, have simply been stripped away by time.” Author and Centre member Jogyata Dallas writes of an elderly neighbour, and insights into human nature.
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The story continues:
“She writes sometimes and I ask her to show me. She hesitates, and we both know that the truths that really matter to us, the feelings that we experience most deeply we can never write about nor ever confide to others, not even to a diary. And only rarely might there be an empathetic heart close enough to set aside masks and masquerades. And who would she write for—or do these self-revelations not require a reader, more a confessional whispered to a blind and deaf universe or to a silent, complicit God?”
Jogyata writes with a rare empathy and insight into human nature, his sensitive authorial heart informed by more than two decades practicing and teaching meditation. Like many of his writings, Tea With A Neighbour is a pure joy to read.
Read more: Tea With A Neighbour by Jogyata Dallas.
