Waves (and a Quote) / The Village Elder
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I sit on the Temple’s beach with a man in his seventies. We are watching the waves. He is a wonderful person, a Class A human being. The Village/Temple elder has become as much of a friend to me as possible. He is patient. We work around the language barrier.
The Elder has lived his whole life in this tropical paradise. He seems to have something in common with Nature itself. He is stable in the knowledge that nothing is stabilized, that there is no consistent norm. The Elder knows that life is composed of a wide variety of changes and experiences. Some of these changes and experiences trigger happiness, while others make people sad. He knows that folks react to these changes and experiences with wildly varying degrees of intensity.
These varying degrees of intensity sit on either side of a near-mythical center point of complete emotional stability. Many folks will never even get to visit that point of perfect emotional balance even once during their entire lives.
Our Village Elder is at home there.
I wonder how many waves he’s seen.
We sit in near-silence, occasionally passing the few words back and forth that we know in each other’s language. We use hand motions to fill in the conversational gaps. Sometimes one of us laughs at nothing. Then the other laughs at the first one and so we both end up laughing at nothing. Nothing itself seems to like it best when we’re both laughing.
The Elder turns toward me and speaks in his own language. A hand motion and a selfless desire to communicate accompany his voice. Anyone would understand him.
He owns a smile that could stop a war.
“Be aware of everything, but worry about nothing. The waves come in, the waves go out. Life goes on. Do what you can. Enjoy your time here. Learn what you need to know.”
I instantly feel better. Things will change. They always do. They can change for the better and that can be at least partially, perhaps totally, under our own control.
Anyone sitting with The Elder would feel an electricity radiating from him, as I did. You can feel the intense power of this man’s serenity in a simple waving motion of his hand and see it in the sparkle of his eyes. There is an obvious and incredible depth to the wisdom this man has developed during the first seventy some years of an extraordinary life. I feel very fortunate to be on Earth at the same time and in the same place as this amazing person.
“The waves come in, the waves go out. Underneath, ocean always calm.” HH The Dalai Lama
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