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Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot

'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted Hughes

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This poem was mentioned as an example of deep writing about the awkward intermediate stage of dissolution in meditation, which the speaker felt was better understood by meditators. The speaker read several complex lines from the poem describing this process.

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we call it technically bunga b-h-a-n-g-a which means dissolution and it's known in other traditions for example d s-eleot got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1944 for writing a poem called the four q...

— Episode: Shinzen Young, Meditation Teacher

Episode: Shinzen Young, Meditation Teacher

This poem was mentioned as an example of deep writing about the awkward intermediate stage of dissolution in meditation, which the speaker felt was better understood by meditators. The speaker read several complex lines from the poem describing this process.

"

we call it technically bunga b-h-a-n-g-a which means dissolution and it's known in other traditions for example d s-eleot got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1944 for writing a poem called the four quartets which is amazing to me considering that i sincerely doubt that any of the judges that gave him that prize understood what that poem was actually about

the wounded surgeon applies the steel that questions the distempered part beneath the bleeding hands we feel the sharp compassion of the healer's art resolving the enigma of the fever chart

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