>>25334189
Oh that's what this* is from

https://annapurnaprod.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-of-unknowing

>>25334189
first read this in a monastery. not joking. wasn't a monk or anything, just slept there for a few days. weird, intense experience

>>25334512
Would you care to share more details about this monastery experience? I'm interested, I've considered doing something similar.

I re-read it every year.

>>25334189
kino song by Swans as well

>>25334620
it was a weird but good place. I couldn't go in like 2/3rds of it because I wasn't a monk, so I spent most of my time wandering on the grounds/in the surrounding monastery property, which was all woods and fields. the monks had taken a vow of silence and it was in the middle of nowhere so the entire place was quiet. attended evening mass daily and listened to the monks sing in their beautifully stark and empty church. afterwards a monk in his 60s took us laypeople into a tiny room off the kitchen where he delivered a short, friendly sermon. he'd come to the monastery from the Philippines when he was in his 40s, said he'd spent the last twenty plus years here without leaving, and we were the only people he spoke to. they fed us a small breakfast and dinner for free, so every morning I'd sit at a table with a red, plastic checkered tablecloth and listen to the other laypeople around me try to eat without talking. the place had a small library that hadn't been restocked since the 90s. as you'd expect, most of it was biblical commentary, catholic theology/philosophy, vatican publications, with a narrow literature shelf. I read that and a Dover Classics edition of the Romantic poets while I was there, and it was funny to read the radical atheist firebrand Shelley and look up and see two novitiates in white robes silently trying to crank a lawnmower in the parking lot lmfao

>>25334189
Is there a best edition or just whatever

>>25337143
Depends on how much old English you can tolerate. Typically I recommend Evelyn Underhill's edition.
As someone from a non-Christian background, I appreciated her commentary, and also she preserved most of the old English.

>>25334225
>>25336132
Based /mu/tants

>>25337154
That's not what old English is, retard

>>25336145
Now that sounds comfy

>>25334189
>westerners slowly slowly reinventing the basic act of meditation over thousands of years and then using it to say something misguided
Man no wonder asians think of us as knuckledraggers.
>>25334189
Really? You've never heard of any of these ideas anywhere else?
Its like when a 50 year old discovers meditation and esotericism and proceeds to make an embarrassing ass of himself for the rest of his life