Into Great Silence

[TotusTuusMaria]

[quote name='kafka' post='1840914' date='Apr 19 2009, 09:33 PM']is it available free on youtube or somewhere else?[/quote]

the interview with the blind monk is on youtube... i don't know anywhere it is...

[kafka]

[quote name='TotusTuusMaria' post='1840944' date='Apr 19 2009, 10:20 PM']the interview with the blind monk is on youtube... i don't know anywhere it is...[/quote]
just watched it thanks. How neat would it be to spend a few weeks there in retreat?

Towards the end of the clip they showed a glance of some bread and apples and it reminded me of one of my favorite poems. Here is the part it reminded me of:

When the child was a child,
It played with enthusiasm,
and, now, has just as much excitement as then,
but only when it concerns its work.

When the child was a child,
It was enough for it to eat an [b]apple, … bread[/b],
And so it is even now.

When the child was a child,
Berries filled its hand as only berries do,
and do even now,
Fresh walnuts made its tongue raw,
and do even now,
it had, on every mountaintop,
the longing for a higher mountain yet,
and in every city,
the longing for an even greater city,
and that is still so,
It reached for cherries in topmost branches of trees
with an elation it still has today,
has a shyness in front of strangers,
and has that even now.
It awaited the first snow,
And waits that way even now.

[TotusTuusMaria]

[quote name='kafka' post='1840989' date='Apr 19 2009, 11:06 PM']just watched it thanks. How neat would it be to spend a few weeks there in retreat?[/quote]

very neat.

[quote]Towards the end of the clip they showed a glance of some bread and apples and it reminded me of one of my favorite poems. Here is the part it reminded me of:

When the child was a child,
It played with enthusiasm,
and, now, has just as much excitement as then,
but only when it concerns its work.

When the child was a child,
It was enough for it to eat an [b]apple, … bread[/b],
And so it is even now.

When the child was a child,
Berries filled its hand as only berries do,
and do even now,
Fresh walnuts made its tongue raw,
and do even now,
it had, on every mountaintop,
the longing for a higher mountain yet,
and in every city,
the longing for an even greater city,
and that is still so,
It reached for cherries in topmost branches of trees
with an elation it still has today,
has a shyness in front of strangers,
and has that even now.
It awaited the first snow,
And waits that way even now.[/quote]

i was never good with poetry. i never noticed the bread and apples... interesting.