April 2018 3

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Most of us spend a great deal of time and energy worrying about the past and being anxious about the future. Befriending death means opening compassionately to the fear, the pain and the suffering in ourselves and in others; it means fully inhabiting the present.
In his book, Eternal Echoes, John O’Donohue writes: “Life is a growth in the art of loss.
The constant flow of loss allows us to experience and enjoy new things. It makes vital clearance in the soul. Loss is the sister of discovery;it is vital to openness, though it certainly brings pain.”
David Malone’s haunting documentary
Waves invites us to think of “the wave which is our own life cycle”. We usually think of ourselves as objects, but we can see ourselves as processes. We exchange energy with the environment to carry on living. Eventually, as with the wave, the end comes, and our energy leaves us. The energy that was that person moves on. A life lived forever would be devoid of meaning. But, in the words of Jon Kabat-Zinn, teacher of the meditation technique of Mindfulness,
“You can’t stop the wave, but you can learn to surf.”

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