{"id":1526,"date":"2021-12-02T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2021-12-02T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:40:10","slug":"thomas-merton-sri-lanka-son-dernier-voyage-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/02\/thomas-merton-sri-lanka-son-dernier-voyage-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Merton – Sri Lanka, son dernier voyage… (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Then the silence of the extraordinary faces.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/strong>Polonnaruwa 2 December 1968<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I visited Polonnaruwa on Monday. Heavy rain in Kandy, and on all the valleys and paddy land… as we go down to the eastern plains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Polonnaruwa under trees The path dips down to Gal Vihara… Barefoot and undisturbed, My feet in wet grass, wet sand…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the SILENCE of the extraordinary faces<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
I was knocked over with a rush of relief and thankfulness at the obvious clarity of the figures and the fluidity of shape and line…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t know when in my life I have ever had such a sense of beauty and spiritual validity running together in one aesthetic <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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ILLUMINATION…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Lundi, j’ai visit\u00e9 Polonnaruwa… Pluie diluvienne sur Kandy, Sur les vall\u00e9es et sur les rizi\u00e8res, Tandis que nous descendons vers les plaines orientales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sous les arbres, Polonnaruwa. Le chemin descend vers Gal Vihara… Pieds nus et calme Dans l’herbe et le sable mouill\u00e9…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alors vient le silence de ces extraordinaires visages…<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Me voici submerg\u00e9 par une vague immense De paix et de reconnaissance. Evidence de la clart\u00e9 des visages Et de la fluidit\u00e9 des formes et des lignes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jamais de ma vie je n’aurai ressenti Un sentiment si profond de beaut\u00e9 et de force spirituelle Fondues dans une seule et m\u00eame esth\u00e9tique ILLUMINATION.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I have left my monastery to come here not just as a research scholar or even as an author. I come as a pilgrim who is anxious to obtain not just information, not just \u201cfacts\u201d about other monastic traditions, but to drink from ancient sources of monastic vision and experience. I seek not only to learn more about religion and about monastic life, but to become a better and more enlightened monk myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Merton visited Gal Vihara on Monday, December 2, <\/em> eight days before his death. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Thursday, December 5, he entered in his journal his description of his experience there, <\/em> in the presence of the great statu<\/em>es …<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I look for any document or testimony concerning particularly the journey of Thomas Merton in Sri Lanka. In the coming months I will continue exploring the life and the works of Thomas Merton.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Then the silence of the extraordinary faces. Polonnaruwa 2 December 1968 I visited Polonnaruwa on Monday.Heavy rain in Kandy, and on all the valleys and paddy land…as we go down to the eastern plains. Polonnaruwa under treesThe path dips down to Gal Vihara…Barefoot and undisturbed,My feet in wet grass, wet sand… Then the SILENCE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritualite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suriyakantha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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