A tribute to my darling Poppa bear Buddha Silent Kindest Sweetest Highest Discipline Hugest Values (my hugging partner)

Now where do I really begin to extol the virtues of my darling Poppa Bear? His hugs and kisses are iconic, his love is the deepest and truest and his respect for life and for me is the hugest, my kindest, sweetest Buddha Poppa Bear with that forever twinkle in his sharp eyes. My father's Buddha nature I would describe as Buddha Silent Kindest Sweetest highest Discipline Hugest Values.

I think firstly, that my father's adherence to the highest discipline and the hugest Values sometimes creates disturbances between us when I am navigating the world of my own desires and wants as my mother has taught me to but I hold the most reverence for his soul as he adheres to the highest discipline and hugest Values which are very difficult to live up to and he amazes me at how easily and well he does it. Not everybody would have the patience to live just as he does which also makes him the most patient and the most caring.

He is patient with everybody and the most caring.

Sometimes I have thought my father's nature is synonymous with Santa Claus's giving gifts to children for being good and I wouldn't be so good a person or virtuous if I am at all without my father being the foremost in discipline and Values.

My father is the goodest man I know, the best among the best, and very few would be able to forever dwell in Buddhahood just by the adherence to their discipline and Values. 

So I feel that my father revealed his Buddha nature even before he encountered the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myo Ho Renge Kyo.

And because his own personal philosophy of life works so well for him he doesn't read too much into it. He is silent because that's how Buddhas are, silent and reflective. And he speaks only when required and is most eloquent and intelligible when he does.

He is kind because he loves guiding people towards his own path of high discipline and huge Values and he is very very good at it. I love taking advice from him right from what I should wear to what I should do but he is also an expert at holding back his thoughts and keeping silent Santa Claus Buddha that he is.

He is the sweetest because when you have been good his Teddy bear like love and appreciation well forth from his being along with his Buddha hugs and kisses. I love that about him the most.

His discipline is iconic. Routine, concentration, love, juices, conversations, whiskeys and friends all are entertained with a disciplined and trained mind.

The fights and arguments which I don't mind because he is never insulting is in the hugest values realm. If he feels I am even slightly veering from his hugest values system, my my, his scathing remarks really hurt then.

Sometimes I think he could be too judgmental or pessimistic because like I said he holds himself to the highest standards and never veers from them but below his high standards is a world full of people aching to attain the joy of revealing their Buddha nature, conversing, dancing, singing, writing, reading who would benefit from his kind love and guidance.

And because no one quite surpasses my father in discipline and values he's more often than not disappointed and isolated, savouring his whiskey with us at home.

If he only opens his heart to those he judges and talks to those he thinks have veered from his Buddha path of Highest Discipline and Hugest Values and accepts them under his wings and teaches them how to fly he would smile and laugh more.

And finally, I wouldn't be the good girl I am if not for my father's example of leading by discipline and values and he is my favourite Teddy Bear. He's not Mr Scrooge although he can be. He's mostly quite the Santa Claus. You just have to seek him. And when his Buddha Nature is revealed is the best dancing Boddhisattva of the Earth and I often find it difficult to keep step with him!