Windsor, Wallaceburg, Ontario

Monday, October 29, 2007 Windsor, Wallaceburg, Ontario
Windsor is the Canadian counterpart to Detroit as a former stronghold of the automobile manufacturing. Inlike
Detroit it is neat, clean and relatively safe. A so-called productive casino, one of the countries most lucrative (as
I've been told) inserts a strange element to the city. Devadutta was raised here. His father still resides there. As I
have expressed before, I believe that while a monk leads a life of virtual detachment there should be no case for
disposing of humanism altogether. After all in the renouncing order one should feel enough self-confidence and
conviction in one's path spiritually that communion with kith and kin should be no threat. Devadutta's dad is most
supportive of his son's chosen spiritual path. Only if there is acute antagonism lodged against a spiritual seeker
should such association be rejected.
After the drive to Windsor and a warm visit to se his dad, Devadutta drove me to Wallaceburg. It is truly a
father/son day. I'm at the Health Unit or facility for hospital care for my dad who is 88 and dying from lung cancer.
Five siblings have come here to visit a father who is truly virtuous in many ways. As mentioned before my sense of
God-awareness was instilled in me by him so you could say he was my first guru. Just a brief visit for three hours is
not enough to express my thanks.
Devadutta mixed well with my biological family. At his best he is very sociable. I feel closer to him in some respects
being like a spiritual son to me and sharing the same living quarters in our Toronto ashram. He remarked that I have
a good family. In my mind I pondered that he has a good dad. He sure did load us down with juices and fruits for
the trip back home. We arrived at midnight and slept in a bit. It's no sin.
3 kms only