January 04, 2005
Ozzie "Big Red" Kilpatrick
1994- 2005
Beloved Friend, Feline Spirit, and Teacher of Ananda
Live Endlessly In Peace
We Have Been Blessed By Your Presence
Om Mani Padme Hung
"Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.
All is well.
- Rosamunde Pilcher
WF Students and Friends may help Ozzie through the Bardo Realms over the next three days
by chanting "Om Mani Padme Hung" for 3, 7, or 21 Mala Bead rounds while holding an image of Teacher Ozzie
in your heart. May he incarnate quickly and help all Sentient Beings.
Condolences may be sent to Teacher Ananda's email address as listed on the Instructor link on the home page.
love and endless Light,
coach ilg