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Munisha introduces the Urban Retreat on Sangha Day, Stockholm Buddhist Centre 21 November 2015. The music is "Erbarme Dich", from the St Matthew Passion by JS Bach, with mezzo soprano Janet Baker. The poem is A High Blue Day on Scalpay, by Kenneth White. Here it is, with Viryabodhi's translation into Swedish.
A High Blue Day on Scalpay
This is the summit of contemplation, and
no art can touch itBlue, so blue, the far-out archipelagoand the sea shimmering, shimmeringNo art can touch it, the mind can onlytry to become attuned to itTo become quiet, and space itself out, tobecome open and still, unworldedKnowing itself in the diamond country, inthe ultimate unlettered light.Kenneth White
En blåhimmelsdag på Scalpay
Det här är kontemplationens höjdpunkt, och
ingen konst kan fånga den;blå, så blå, skärgården långt däruteoch det skimrande havet, skimrande,ingen konst kan fånga det, sinnet kan baraförsöka stämma in med det:att bli stilla, vidga sig utåt, attbli öppen och stilla, bortomvärldsligoch fånga sig själv i Diamantlandet, idet yttersta ordlösa ljuset.Kenneth White, translated into Swedish by Viryabodhi
