When this photo was taken in 2010, this Burmese man was approaching 80 years old and had been at International Meditation Center since the 1950s, when as a young man he helped out in the kitchen for the great Sayagyi U Ba Khin, later taking over many of the cooking duties.
As of this photo he was still a mainstay at the center, and especially in the kitchen, where this photo was taken. It's a very expressive face, and one must wonder what it may have seen through so many decades at such a special place.