Rilke Introduction

Join us in this time with these meditations that will surely help you make your day a little better. Translations and reading by Mark Robert Waldman. Music composed and performed by Yuval Ron. Spiritual poetry by Rilke from his book: Book of Hours: Love Poems to God.

Poetry and Music:
1. Introduction*
2. Circling
3. Alone
4. Next door
5. Each thing
6. Like a tree
7. Love song
8. Musician stop!*

Transcript

God Poetry Music Imagination Creativity Consciousness Transcendent love Music All are one and the same for the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke Music Music When you listen to Rilke,

You feel him wrestling with his inner demons and gods Music Is he in heaven?

Or hell?

Does he believe or disbelieve?

Rilke never knew Music Music He was a modern mystic,

A man-boy who grew up rejecting Christianity imposed on him by his mother A mother who raised him as a girl For Rilke,

God was the poem itself And like all mystics,

God is something beyond ideas or words Instead,

God is a direction,

A struggle toward finding oneself in the chaos of nature,

Humanity and love God was an image you could never quite touch,

And thus he touches believers and disbelievers alike Rilke once penned All great poets drunk with fame listened to their simple songs Like the words of God from Sinai Music Shammah Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad Listen and wrestle with your own image of God as you glimpse the oneness that binds us together in peace Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Nug incorporates a series of historical events that Will call upon early Woods,

All dating back to the late 1990's