[Buddha-l] Maylie Scott Roshi

[Piya Tan]

Thanks for the memories, Franz.
My one regret while in California: I have not seen the redwoods live.

(I remember writing a poem about that experience--now I have to look where I
have stashed it.)

Anyways [that northern Californian], that's the cost for frequenting the
caverns of the UCB libraries. I should have responded at "the first
branchtips" when they brushed at my window.

Poems are second best when you missed the direct experience. Yet they have a
magic of their own.

Maylie gave me a copy of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" (tr Stephen
Mitchell) in 1994 when I left Berkeley for home (Malaysia then).

With metta,

Piya Tan


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Franz Metcalf <franz at mind2mind.net> wrote:

> Dear Piya et al.,
>
> Thank you, Piya, for the stories of Maylie. I can see you among the
> foxgloves.
>
> My father died, last year, of metastasized colon cancer, just as I
> learned Maylie did when I followed the second link you provided <
> http://www.arcatazengroup.org/maylie.php
>  >. So, reading the story of her last weeks and the rituals of her
> funeral brought tears. But it also brought perspective. Here are the
> last words of Maylie's last dharma talk:
>
> > I'd like to end by reading a short poem by Jane Hirshfield called
> > "True."
> >
> >     It is foolish to let a young Redwood grow next to a house.
> >     Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose.
> >     That great calm being, this clutter of soup, pots and books.
> >     Already the first branchtips brush at the window.
> >     Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.
>
> Franz
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