"The Dream"

For the first 

four years after she died,

I felt like an orphan. 

Then one night

she came to me in a Dream,

and 

from that moment on,

I no longer felt her death

as a loss.

I understood

that she 

had never died,

that my Sorrow was based

on an Illusion...

The Reality of my Mother

was Beyond

Birth or Death.

She did not exist because 

of Birth, 

nor cease to exist because

of Death.

I saw that Being

and non-Being

are not separate...

Being able to see my Mother

in my Dream,

I realized

that I could see

my Mother

Everywhere.

~Thich Nhat Hahn

(b.1926- )

Vietnam

~Beannaichte'

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