was when you were growing up in the Big Apple, where I too did
my growing), I adore the freshness, vivacity and revelations of
your teachings and the sharing of your own personal struggles.
Each of the four books of yours that I have so vividly underlined
and underlined and underlined, contain freshets of the friendly
truths I have discovered through my teachers and my own meditation,
truths I continue to rediscover. I have no doubt that your writings
have invigorated my daily meditations. Gratefully, I find myself
made more alive by words of yours that have penetrated and
nurtured my own psycho-spiritual practices.
Not long ago, meditating, after reading you, Pema, there
flashed inside me a new answer to why I so often cry at the end of
any beautiful, meaningful movie (e.g., Man On Fire, John Q,
Tootsie, Now Voyager, Tender Mercies, Secrets and Lies). For
years I have thought I cry because of the beauty of those movies,
or because my ego jealously thinks I will never accomplish in my
own plays and movies work so achingly, and hilariously, and sadly
true and touching. Now I know another and deeper reason for my
tears. I cry because I have come to love the characters, and
when the screen goes dark and they are gone from my life, I
miss them.
The insights that arise in meditation are sometimes painful,
but always a source, in my experience, of future happiness.
Years of daily meditation have taught me the unending
treasure in my tears, and now I can enjoy them even more, since
I know they flow from the broken-heartedness of love.
----Neil R. Selden
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