El tema central de este Blog es LA FILOSOFÍA DE LA CABAÑA y/o EL REGRESO A LA NATURALEZA o sobre la construcción de un "paradiso perduto" y encontrar un lugar en él. La experiencia de la quietud silenciosa en la contemplación y la conexión entre el corazón y la tierra. La cabaña como objeto y método de pensamiento. Una cabaña para aprender a vivir de nuevo, y como ejemplo de que otras maneras de vivir son posibles sobre la tierra.

jueves, 9 de abril de 2015

Los efectos/afectos de ver el mar por primera vez








El rostro de este hombre, en el instante inmediato después de haber visto el mar por primera vez en su vida, es atravesado por la emoción, la intensidad y la intimidad ante la visión de lo absoluto.

"La vue de la mer est consolante"
(Stendhal)





Instalación multimedia de la artista Sophie Calle




Sophie Calle es una artista francesa judía nacida en 1953. El principal objeto de su obra es la intimidad y de modo particular la suya propia, para ello utiliza gran diversidad de medios de registro como libros, fotografías, vídeos, películas o performances.
Se trata de una artista conceptual que después de viajar por buena parte del mundo regresó a París en 1979.






miércoles, 8 de abril de 2015

Occidente/Oriente. El camino Sufí del corazón




1971 BBC Radio interview with Idries Shah. The interviewer is Pat Williams.




Doris Lessing reading from her 1971 article, "An Ancient Way to New Freedom".
Doris Lessing leyendo de su artículo "Un antiguo camino hacia una nueva libertad".






martes, 7 de abril de 2015

Olivier Smolders, el rigor estético de un cineasta


Resultado de imagen de olivier smolders
Olivier Smolders


Né le 04/01/56 à Léopoldville, licence en philologie romane à l'UCL, réalisation film radio télévision à l'INSAS, fondateur des films du Scarabée, producteur, scénariste et réalisateur de films, professeur à l'INSAS et à l'ISV, maître de conférence à l'Université de Liège, fildefériste, pêcheur à la mouche, agnostique dissident, auteur d'essais sur la littérature et le cinéma, membre de l'amicale des zutistes. 

El cineasta y escritor belga Olivier Smolders, es conocido por sus cortometrajes de gran rigor estético, cercano al videoarte en algunos casos o al ensayo fílmico en otros, donde se pregunta sobre el mismo cine, la muerte, perturbadoras confesiones, el cuerpo humano - el femenino principalmente- y el morbo que rodea a todo ésto.






Retiré dans sa chambre, un cinéaste parle des territoires et des voyages, réels ou imaginaires, qui l'ont fait ou qui l'ont défait. A partir d'images récoltées au fil des années, Voyage autour de ma chambre interroge d'une façon poétique la difficulté de chacun à trouver sa juste place au sein du monde. 
Música: "Molto adagio sempre cantante e doloroso, V. 52", de Quatuor Camerata (Google PlayeMusic)





L'amateur, del cineasta belga Olivier Smolders. Una película en forma de pera... 
Música:"Les entreprises du violon: Sonata No. IV La Focroy en Ré Majeur: III. Lentement", de Philippe Pierlot, Rainer Zipperling, Sophie Watillon, Robert Kohnen, Pierre Hantaï (Google PlayeMusiciTunes






Quelques films de Lynch revisités par des plans de Bergman, Lang, Buñuel, Hitchcock, Fellini et quelques autres: montage didactique réalisé par Olivier Smolders sur une proposition du site BLOW UP d'ARTE, Ã l'occasion de la diffusion de Twin Peaks.
http://www.smolderscarabee.be 





http://www.smolderscarabee.be/oli_bio.php
http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/search.php?stype=director&stext=Olivier+Smolders


lunes, 6 de abril de 2015

La cabaña del poeta Ronald Duncan (Ronald Duncan's Hut)



Cabaña de Ronald Duncan
Ronald Duncan's Hut
Hut overlooking the coast on the Devon/Cornwall border, built by Poet and playwright, Ronald Duncan.






In Ronald Duncan’s Writing Hut
By Roman Krznaric | Published: 31 July 2014

Ronald Duncan's writing hut
I am sitting in a tiny, sparse stone hut at the top of a North Devon cliff, overlooking the sea. Outside is an enticing sign: ‘Ronald Duncan’s Writing Hut is Open’. This is where the West Country poet and playwright – best known for writing the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia – used to spend his working days.
Just down the steep coastal path is his former home, West Mill, now belonging to his daughter, the sculptor Briony Lawson, and her photographer husband Andrew Lawson. I’m currently staying at the house, which is nestled in the isolated Marsland Valley, probably the most beautiful and inspiring landscape I’ve ever encountered. At night, sleeping with the windows wide open, I can hear both a running stream and the waves crashing into the rocks in the bay. On my first day at the mill I found a shelf-full of Ronald Duncan’s writings, and began reading his lyrical, outspoken and completely captivating book All Men Are Islands, the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy.
Duncan, who was born in 1914 and died in 1982, is not as well known as he once was. But in his autobiography I discovered an extraordinary literary life. He was friends not just with Benjamin Britten, but with poets and writers like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Gerald Brennan, who had lived at West Mill before the First World War (along with Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington). As a young man Duncan had an adventurous streak, and after leaving Cambridge, where he had studied English Literature under F.R. Leavis, he spent a month working in a coal mine, then lived on an ashram with Gandhi. Quite unusual for a budding aesthete who was descended from wealthy Austro-German aristocrats.
During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, and together with his wife Rose Marie conducted an experiment in utopian living influenced by Gandhi, running his farm as a commune. Unfortunately several of the poets and pacifists who joined them were more interested in writing verse and squabbling with each other than milking cows, and the experiment faded into failure. Despite this, it was emblematic of Duncan’s attempts to live by his political and ethical principles. Not that he was of a saintly nature. He was well aware of his contradictory and often narcissistic character, openly admitting that for much of his life, ‘I was obsessed with myself, and in love with myself’.
I was immediately struck by the opening lines of his autobiography, written in his late forties, which signal a unique and free-thinking literary voice:
‘We settle down to write our life when we no longer know how to live it. To pause is to admit defeat. When the present is interesting we do not bother with the past. We try to remember only when we’ve lost the vitality of doing anything worth remembering. The past is a wastepaper basket. We burrow into it only when we feel we have no future.’


Duncan certainly made the present interesting. His venture down the coal mine had echoes of George Orwell’s empathy experiment living as a tramp on the streets of East London in the early 1930s. Like Orwell, Duncan pawned his clothes and got himself a second-hand coat and slouch cap. He then trudged across the slag heaps near Chesterfield in search of work. Being mistaken for a gypsy due to his dark complexion, and claiming he had worked with horses in a circus, he landed a job looking after 35 pit ponies at the bottom of the shaft. His descriptions of work at the coal face have a poetic precision that rivals Orwell’s essay ‘Down the Mine’:
‘The face itself was only three feet high. Men lay on their sides, stripped to the waist, hacking the wall with a pick-axe. Their mates, kneeling beside them, loaded the stint on to the conveyor-belt, which, like an endless crocodile, clawed its way through the workings. I was terrified: each stroke of the pick-axe brought down part of the wall. It looked like energetic suicide, a desperate effort to bury oneself alive. But these matchstick pit-props held the roof of slate and, as soon as the coal was cleared, the miner placed another prop in position and rammed a wedge home with a sledge-hammer. All this time they were oblivious of the dangers, and spoke only of the relative merit of football players.’
Later he said that nobody had the right to use coal who had not worked down the mine themselves.
My favourite passage in All Men Are Islands is buried in the middle of the book, where he tries to spell out his underlying philosophy of life and give a sense of how he felt different, even detached, from other people. In doing so, he offers one of the most evocative descriptions I have ever read of what it can mean to seize the day:
‘What people said was important seemed trivial to me. Things I thought fundamental were not subjects they cared to discuss. All men are islands: there seemed to be no bridge for me.
Basically the difference lay in this: I was, and am, acutely aware that life is ephemeral, limited and brief. I never wake up in the morning without being surprised at being alive: I never go to sleep without wondering whether I shall wake up. Death to me was the reality. Yet everybody I met and saw seemed unaware of it. They seemed to live as if they would live for ever. How else could they spend forty years marking exercise-books, going to an office to earn the money which would enable them to go on going to an office to earn the money which would enable them to – . I could see a skull beneath every bowler hat. Perhaps I should have been an undertaker. But I must make this point if no other: I was obsessed with the feeling that I was a small boat floating on an ocean, and the ocean was death. Nobody I knew would admit this sea that supported and surrounded them. This made communication difficult: the language was the same, but I could not share their values. I envied their insulation. I was jealous of their indifference. But I could not emulate them, however much I tried.’
As I sit here in Duncan’s cliff-top writing hut, the wind and rain swirling around me, I can only hope that his message stays with me and that I have the courage to sail on that same boat on that same ocean.
Suddenly there’s a knock at the hut door. A woman in sensible walking gear peers inside and sees me sitting at the old desk with my fingers poised on my laptop, staring out across the Atlantic. She looks me up and down and asks, hesitantly, ‘Are you Ronald Duncan?’

(http://www.romankrznaric.com/outrospection/2014/07/31/2440)



In the third part of his autobiography, Obsessed, Duncan describes how he came to acquire his refuge:

‘During the war, the Admiralty had asked my permission to erect a small look-out hut on the cliff edge above West Mill. It overlooked the approach to the Bristol channel. On a still summer evening in 1940 I had stood on that spot to watch eight ships in convoy blow up and sink within fifteen minutes. The hut the Admiralty erected was made of galvanised iron on a concrete base and measured ten by six feet.

After the war the Admiralty offered to take the hut away or let me have it as a gift. Since it was rusting and unsightly, I asked them to remove it. This they did.

A few years later, I found myself repeatedly going up the cliff path to sit for hours on this site. The view attracted me because it contained no signs of humanity: the open Atlantic, the bracken and gorse covered cliffs, giant boulders on the beach beneath. The only signs of life were the buzzards and a single unmated falcon. I was drawn to this view which had not changed since the Cambrian era.’

Obsessed by Ronald Duncan (p.105). Published by Michael Joseph, 1977.
Fuente: (http://www.literaryplaces.co.uk/?p=860)



For Duncan the location obviously acted as an inspiration, and it crops up in his writing again and again. His long, five-part poem, Man, is far more abstract than his previous work – it opens with the origin of the solar system and explores the creation of life and the evolution of humanity – but his love of the place still shines through:

Then I sat down by that shore, the abyss above me
The unfathomable all about me. And I stared out at the sea
Realising: that I could not see the waves 
Nor any part of the ocean 
Independent of the process of observation; 
that Laws of Nature were laws of thought, 
And even Reason needs reason as method, 
As the will, the will, before it can reason. 
Then I peered out at the horizon 
Where I myself sailed by oblivious to my signal, 
And I stood up and shouted hysterically 
Into the abyss before me, above me, and about me: 
‘Order is what I seek. 
From the chaos of my mind, 
Order is what I will impose upon you.’ 
And the indifferent waves broke on the deserted shore 
Echo alone answered. Then I wrapped that terror 
which blew across the loom of space 
closely about me like a scarf; 
fear is not what I will fear, 
it is indifference which frightens me.

Excerpt from ‘Canto Twelve, Kosmos’, from Man, Part One, by Ronald Duncan. Published by the Rebel Press, 1970.





http://www.romankrznaric.com/outrospection/2014/07/31/2440
http://www.ronaldduncanfoundation.co.uk/
http://www.literaryplaces.co.uk/?p=860



domingo, 5 de abril de 2015

La cabaña del creador de Tarka La Nutria (Tarka The Otter)


Aclamado: Henry William Williamson falleció en 1977. Ganó el Premio Hawthornden de Literatura en 1928 por su novela La Tarka la nutria

Henry William Williamson passed away in 1977. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his novel Tarka The Otter



A labour of love: The remote moorland cabin was built by Williamson in 1929 in a village in North Devon, with the profits from his most famous book, Tarka The Otter
A labour of love: The remote moorland cabin was built by Williamson in 1929 in a village in North Devon, with the profits from his most famous book, Tarka The Otter

A tiny wooden hut where one of Britain's best-loved nature authors penned some of his greatest works is today up for sale - after lying untouched for nearly 40 years. 
Henry William Williamson built the remote moorland cabin in 1929 with the profits from his most famous book, Tarka the Otter.
Williamson, a naturalist, farmer and prolific writer, spent up to 15 hours a day inside the one-room hideaway working on his acclaimed natural history and social history novels.

..
Oxford Cross (Grade II), Georgeham, Devon
For many writers, the ambiance in which they work matters. Recently listed, this writing hut was built by Henry Williamson in 1929 from the proceeds of Tarka the Otter, and he went on to write more than 50 novels in this simple yet characterful writing sanctuary.

En venta: Esta pequeña cabaña de madera, donde uno de los autores de la naturaleza más queridos de Gran Bretaña acorralados algunas de sus obras más importantes es hoy a la venta - después de permanecer intacta durante casi 40 años



Inmaculada: Henry William Williamson, un naturalista, agricultor y escritor prolífico, pasaba hasta 15 horas al día en el interior del refugio de una habitación a trabajar en sus aclamados de la historia natural y la historia social novelas.  La cabaña se ha dejado casi exactamente como Williamson dejó alrededor de hace cuatro décadas


Henry William Williamson, a naturalist, farmer and prolific writer, spent up to 15 hours a day inside the one-room hideaway working on his acclaimed natural history and social history novels. The hut has been left almost exactly as Williamson left it around four decades ago.
Since his death in 1977 it has been left virtually untouched with books, clothes, reading glasses and a gramophone record all remaining just as the reclusive wordsmith left them.
The remote hut is close to the pretty village of Georgeham near Woolacombe in North Devon and is made from oak and elm with slate roof tiles with a brick fireplace.



Pictured above is Williamson inside the hut. The sale includes his writing desk, spectacles and blotter. Pictured below is how it looks today.


AN AWARD-WINNING NOVEL TRACING THE LIFE OF TARKA THE OTTER AND HIS LIFE ON THE RIVER TORRIDGE


Award-wining: The novel traces the life of Tarka an otter, living on the River Torridge
The novel traces the life of Tarka an otter,
living on the River Torridge
Tarka the Otter was written by Henry William Williamson and was first published in 1927.

A year later the novel won the Hawthornden Prize for literature.
The book, which remains Williamson's best-known and most popular work, has never been out of print since first publication.
It tells the tale of an otter, Tarka, and his life on the River Torridge. 
Divided into two parts - The First Year and The Last Year - the novel follows Tarka learning to swim and hunt, deal with losing a sibling in a trap and surviving after he is separated from his mother. 
In his second year Tarka fathers a litter of cubs with his mate White-tip.
Throughout the novel Tarka is pitched against his main enemy, another local otter Deadlock.
The book ends with a climatic nine-hour hunt of Tarka by the pack, and a confrontation between Tarka and Deadlock.
Williamson was born in London and moved to Georgeham in Devon in 1921.
He began making notes for Tarka the Otter two years later, while the book took four years to complete.
The author often claimed he was inspired to write the novel after rescuing and raising an otter cub, but the truth of the story remains shrouded in mystery.
The original edition feature illustrations by Charles Tinnicliffe.
While popular with children, the novel was not intended for a young audience. 
The novel was adapted into a film, which was released in 1979 - two years after Williamson passed away. One of his sons, Richard, and his daughter-in-law, star in the film.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2590707/Moorland-hut-Tarka-Otter-author-penned-greatest-works-sale-lying-nearly-40-years.html




jueves, 2 de abril de 2015

"Somos Uno". Girar para no dejar de ser Uno




¡VEN, VEN.! 

¡Ven, ven, quienquiera que seas, ven!
Infiel, religioso o pagano, poco importa; 
Nuestra caravana no es la de la desilusión!
Nuestra caravana es la de la esperanza!
¡Ven, aunque hayas roto mil veces tus promesas!

¡Ven, a pesar de todo, ven!







“Mi maestro me enseñó el arte del fracaso. Es decir, aprender a fluir con la vida y a pensar con el corazón”, explica Amin. “El que obra así no llegará nunca a nada en la sociedad actual. Pero se habrá ganado a sí mismo, porque para él tendrán el mismo valor el oro y el barro. Eso es ser sufí”.







Sheikh Ahmed Dede è stato iniziato all Ordine Sufi Mevlevi e all Ordine Naqshbandi e autorizzato allinsegnamento della Danza Roteante Mevlevi dal 40° Gran Maestro dell Eccelso Ordine Naqshbandi Shaikh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani a Cipro. Di origini Indonesiane vive con la sua famiglia in Olanda e chi lo incontra viene subito pervaso dalla sua dolcezza ed umiltà. Le meditazioni della Tradizione Sufi e i Canti accompagnati dalla sua voce struggente uniti alla Danza sono unesperienza di risveglio interiore per toccare quella corda del nostro cuore che troppo spesso nel quotidiano ci dimentichiamo di suonare.