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 Posted: Mon 2:53, 02 Sep 2013 Post subject: Making Eyebrows in the Water |
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Making Eyebrows in the Water,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
In central Alaska,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there is a river that begins on the northwest slopes of the Alaska Range and flows more than 650 miles to the Bering Sea. The shores of the river are mostly thick with trees and uninhabited. These chilling waters are known as the Kuskokwim River.
John Larson,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a Dateline NBC correspondent,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was in Alaska covering a news story when he learned of an Inuit custom in which elders take their sons once a year to the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. Here the largest salmon return from the Bering Sea. The elders teach their sons that if you watch closely enough,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you'll see the biggest fish barely break surface,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], leaving an almost imperceptible wake. When the big fish break surface in this way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Inuit say they are making eyebrows in the water. The slight break of surface is known as the wake of an unseen teacher.
When father and son alike see this wake,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the harvest begins. This is a powerful metaphor for how we fish for what matters in our lives. We are always looking for the teachers that swim just below the surface,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like the face of God skimming below the surface of our days.
The Inuit believe that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wherever the large salmon break surface,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they leave traces of everything they've carried from the mountains to the sea and back. If a son can swim to the spot and drink,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he will have the strength of salmon wisdom growing in his belly.
This Inuit ritual is another indigenous instruction for the great care and attention needed to see through to the essential realm of spirit that underlies everything. Though even when sighting what matters briefly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there is no guarantee that the deeper reality will surface in the same place twice. Still,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is the art of sighting the wake of an unseen teacher that begins the harvest. This way of listening below the surface of things opens a kind of education that is not really teachable,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though we can bring each other to its threshold through love.
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