Voici un film sur les moines zen ermites en Chine, vraiment très beau. En anglais: https://youtube/watch?v=FumyvVOVbaY The film balances conversations with the hermits about their insights with scenes of daily life in the mountains and so allows the hermits to emerge as distinct personalities. We quickly learn that “hermit” can mean a lot of different things: some live alone - miles from anyone, but others live in pairs or in small communities. Consistent with the Chinese tradition as a whole, some seem to be strictly Ch’an (Zen) but many are eclectic, practicing Pure Land as well. More than one has a dog; one has two cats; one master reads newspapers; one has a talking clock 20 minutes fast. Along the way we also spend time with two nuns and finally with a hermit who is said to be “on the final leg, walking the last mile to enlightenment.” Although the filmmaker does not pursue their personal histories (and is sometimes discouraged by the practitioners), occasionally they volunteer their past (the subtitles use lower-case “i”): “i had a lot of trouble leaving home…my family wouldn’t let me; they went and found me and brought me back…but i’ve been a monk so long…they don’t care anymore.” The hermits don’t just utter wisdom but are also honest about their difficulties: “you live alone in a hut…you feel so lonely, really so very lonely but after a long time you don’t want to go down off the mountain; you feel the cities are just a lot of trouble.” Another notes one reason to become a hermit as compared to a monk is the lack of structure: “every morning and evening i do my service…then i do some sitting meditation; in the afternoon i read a bit…i’m very free.”
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:00:52 +0000