Jotham Tezare

Death is nothing at all...
I have only slipped away to the next room...
I am I and you are you...
Whatever we were to each, that we are still.

Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak it to me in the same way you always used.
Put no difference into your tone,
Wear no false air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes 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 effect, without the ghost of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolutely unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident.

I am but waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner.
All is well.

Henry Scott Holland 1847 - 1918
Canon of St Paul's, London

From Mary Asgodom:

Its so hard to let go of what we had

the happy time the sad times

the smiles and the cries.

trying to understand the reason

why you left us all behind

when my best Joti passed away

It was the saddest day

the pain and the tear

just wouldn't go away

Its still very hard to believe

that our Joti had to leave

We'll never know the reason

of why he had to go

I will promise you one thing

to Love every one as you did

From a good friend:

Your news really hit me…. I chanted for him for almost two hours.

I hung out with your brother a lot over the summer and as I looked into his eyes I saw someone who could be a UN Ambassador or reform the World Bank.

I really felt he was that kind of person-- he was already capable but he was going to uncover more and more strength. I told people JT was already in the Ikeda University.

Meaning he was someone who was beginning his practice looking for the profound -- not chanting to win the lotto but I think reveling in answering all the questions he had been asking for a long time; he had a marvelous intellect.

I was looking forward to watching JT blossom. The last time I saw him was in Nov and he had had a difficult week with his health... By that time, we had created a bond. He was a tough cookie. He had a very clear idea of how to layout his plans -- his own way of doing things.

I've known your brother for a short time, but really it feels like a lifetime.

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