Master, Why Are You Not Afraid

Student (S)

Master (M)

 

S: Master, I can see in your eyes, and in your ways, that you are not afraid. How did you become this way?

M: I do not know.

S: Why are you not afraid?

M: I do not know.

S: I am afraid.

M: I understand.

S: Does it seem odd to you that I am afraid?

M: No.

S: Why not, Master?

M: Virtually all are afraid.

S: Yes. I am one of them. I would like to learn, Master.

M: I cannot tell you what you should do. I cannot tell you why I am not afraid. Though I understand that you are.

S: What is it that you know, and I do not?

M: Life, perhaps.

S: Life?

M: Yes.

S: What is it that you know about life, Master?

M: Perhaps I have somewhat of an understanding of life.

S: What is it that you understand, Master?

M: I understand that life acts as it wishes. I understand that it tends to create storms in the life of man.

S: And I do not understand this?

M: This is a question for yourself.

S: You say that life brings storms to man.

M: It is so.

S: And you have learned to avoid them, Master?

M: No.

S: Then what you have you learned, Master?

M: I have learned to live within them.

S: Thank you, my Master.