Eternity is not a very long time. Tribute to Raimon Panikkar It is not my habit to publish posts that are not related to the themes of this blog, but it seemed only right to pay tribute, through the beloved Patrick Gioia, a person to whom certainly feel the lack Raimon Panikkar .....
Eternity is not a very long time.
(Patrick Joy)
Using these words of Raimon Panikkar, the sorrowful news of the his death. Many would be the memories, thoughts, smiles, the silences that have fertilized my life encounter with this man, disciple and teacher 100%. But now I need silence share with you his presence, as he was alive and will be in our hearts, in a holiday in Venice, on the occasion of his 
90th birthday.
Like all great sages left us and promise: the game, where freedom is joy without any power, and experience shows us the way, the risk Life as co-authors of Creating, radical innovation, invites us to dialogue, irreducibility of the Other, not to defend the identity which is instead sharing and mutual fertilization, to implement the Love the enemy and forgiveness, an act of decreazione, takes away the evil done by the reality cosmoteandrica, of which we are a constituent part, without no separation between God and cosmos man without any hierarchy. than ever in this difficult time, his thought can and should be a guide, because true ethics, which is so much talk and little is known, is a movement that comes more from the heart that from the mind.
" Everything in life is a game and faith is to find out, realizing that there is nothing definitive, except the same dance step with which we return to the bosom of the divinity from where we started. " Raimon Panikkar
Three day conference dell'intensissimo Venetian: "Mysticism. Fullness of Life, " which undoubtedly is was a tribute to the world and Raimon Panikkar, also approaching his 90th birthday. is not my intention, nor is it possible to summarize here the experience, capacity to dialogue with the thought of Panikkar, thinkers from around the world, experience that is only given everyone living and "few", one of which is Panikkar, are able to show us "integral" because it is completely embodied in them. E 'of this "incarnation" I want to say groped, and despite already knowing that however, is unspeakable. know and I attend Raimon Panikkar and his thoughts for several years, a meeting which is certainly not come about by chance because of my personal research, a stretch to that "know thyself" has always is in me and that this conference has helped to illuminate even more sense. In my life there have been many "masters" have always met and kept me well-trained in the awareness of ever having to leave, "betrayals in all faithfulness." Ma il “è’ bene che io vada”, che forte ho sentito nei silenzi di Panikkar in questo Convegno, ha malinconicamente rinforzato in me il suo lascito e il suo insegnamento: ora tocca a te, diceva, a te la responsabilità, la tua, in armonia con il mondo e il divino. Ho guardato in questi giorni questo piccolo grande uomo sempre a distanza, ravvicinata, ma a distanza. Non mi sono sentita, come quasi tutti hanno fatto, di fotografarlo, di riprenderlo con videocamere e telefonini, di avvicinarsi per autografi, to touch or hug him. No opinion, mind you, just for me was nothing. For me it was no longer "there", but "everywhere". (Not coincidentally, perhaps, his "lectio divina" was shortly after the Ascension into heaven .) felt in me a duty of loving awe, a gratitude that asked reverential distance. Beauty, you know, he is also the beginning of the terrible. And we are so human, always sincere offends us defend ourselves. His figure was already a magnificent wooden statue, (I meant it in the image the wooden statue of Monaco which Narcissus and Goldmund Hesse recounts) of an intense color and amber, it I still feel the smell of sandalwood, with his hands long fingers and always daring, his bare feet and experts long pilgrimages, hair a little longer and white, the eyes present and distant, deep and sweet, smiling, enigmatic, engaging as only a child and an old have, heritage and promise. A masterpiece. He sculptor, in harmony with Life. masterpiece that everyone could and should groped. "From the silence ... do not know the truth, but we can practice honesty. be ourselves without fear. Listen. Be worthy of us. No Unity, Harmony, but that is not rationalized. Love is harmonic rebalancing. God wants, loves, creates diversity. The ability to forgive is independent of your will. "The word Dignity è emersa molte volte dal silenzio di Raimon, un invito, un’indicazione al ritrovamento del nostro esseri umani. L’ascolto, io devo essere degna per darti casa. “La religione non è un’organizzazione, ma un organismo” ed il suo invito è a ritrovare lo Spirito della Religione, che è anche il nostro profondo sentire che danza nell’armonia “cosmoteandrica” “dove cosmo umano e divino sono inseparabili. Questa crisi, come ogni crisi, sia l’annuncio di una nuova nascita. La critica è necessary, all religions have their need for internal conversion, with pain with love and fertility. The freedom of religion, you tend to, not doctrine and dogma. " Raimon is helped in his daily walk, sit and helped fall back, quell'affidarsi that touches us all every day and not only in old. But at the end of the day, after the concert for piano, enchanted all the enchantment of the Church of the Frari, in front of the majesty painting by Titian, Raimon you got up quickly and suddenly alone, to go to the bewitching smile mature pianist, came to him from San Francisco, with that energy that only Music can give to those who already cooperate in its harmony. Who, like him, E'casa. An essay sad, sad is a wise, always says Panikkar, to remind us what the life and mystical fullness "is also full of joy. Before leaving for Catalonia, Raimon has requested a glass of wine, Non be too sad to leave. And this, if ever proof were needed, has confirmed his thoughts and my and how human-and wine are inseparable. Thanks, Raimon, I lift this cup with you! The hope is invisible.
Patrick Gioia, May 8, 2008
