The Rabbit Listened

Today, I participated in an online meditation meeting. After the meditation, I had a chance to share my grief and loneliness, the grief that I lost the land where I lived for a long and the people whom we could share love each other there. I also talked about the loneliness I have experienced because I have seldom had offline meetings with people in this land to share love just as I could on the other side of the earth.

After telling the story, I shared the insight I gained during the meditation; the loneliness was caused by losing trust in myself. I noticed that I could not trust anymore that there were people in the world who wanted to live with love and share it with others. The loss of trust led me to the bottom of loneliness.

With gratefulness, I could tell that I could regain trust through the meditation. I could believe then - plenty of people in the world wanted to share love and with whom I could/should connect.

Then, the host told about a book he had given his young son. "Rabbit Listened". He told me that if I gave a hug, I would receive a hug again.

The rabbit came to a lonely boy and stayed gently with him all the time without giving advice. It has listened and listend to the boy's sadness, anger, frustrations - and a dream and joy!

By telling me about this book, he implied that he, as a meeting host, would stay with me as long as I wished and that I could belong to the group, feeling like a family beyond the borders of countries. What a wonderful treat he showed, which warmed my and the other participants' hearts.