Trappistick\u00fd mnich Thomas Merton (1915\u20131968) se zaslou\u017eil o obnoven\u00ed kontemplativn\u00ed tradice v k\u0159es\u0165anstv\u00ed. P\u0159i p\u0159ekladu sb\u00edrky v\u00fdrok\u016f pou\u0161tn\u00edch otc\u016f Merton p\u0159ijal jejich styl v\u00fduky prost\u0159ednictv\u00edm kr\u00e1tk\u00fdch p\u0159\u00edb\u011bh\u016f nebo v\u00fdrok\u016f a zd\u016fraznil d\u016fle\u017eitost pro\u017e\u00edt jejich moudrost na vlastn\u00ed k\u016f\u017ei:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Na\u0161e doba zoufale pot\u0159ebuje tento druh jednoduchosti. Pot\u0159ebuje znovuobjevit n\u011bco z zku\u0161enosti, kter\u00e1 se odr\u00e1\u017e\u00ed v t\u011bchto \u0159\u00e1dc\u00edch. Slovo, kter\u00e9 je t\u0159eba zd\u016fraznit, je zku\u0161enost. N\u011bkolik kr\u00e1tk\u00fdch v\u011bt shrom\u00e1\u017ed\u011bn\u00fdch v tomto svazku m\u00e1 jako pouh\u00e1 informace malou nebo \u017e\u00e1dnou hodnotu. Bylo by zbyte\u010dn\u00e9 tyto [aforismy] p\u0159eskakovat a jen letmo si v\u0161\u00edmat toho, \u017ee otcov\u00e9 \u0159ekli to a to. K \u010demu n\u00e1m bude dobr\u00e9 v\u011bd\u011bt, \u017ee takov\u00e9 v\u011bci byly kdysi \u0159e\u010deny? D\u016fle\u017eit\u00e9 je, \u017ee byly pro\u017eity. \u017de vych\u00e1zej\u00ed ze zku\u0161enosti hlub\u0161\u00edch \u00farovn\u00ed \u017eivota. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benedicta Wardov\u00e1, badatelka pou\u0161tn\u00edch mystik\u016f, popisuje, jak jednoduch\u00fd jazyk pou\u0161tn\u00edch abb\u00e1s\u016f a amm\u016f m\u016f\u017ee zakr\u00fdvat hlubokou moudrost, kterou obsahuj\u00ed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tyto v\u00fdroky zachov\u00e1vaj\u00ed nestrukturovanou moudrost pou\u0161t\u011b v jednoduch\u00e9m jazyce… Nejsou v\u017edy vz\u00e1jemn\u011b konzistentn\u00ed a v\u017edy je t\u0159eba je \u010d\u00edst v kontextu, v n\u011bm\u017e byly vysloveny. Nejedn\u00e1 se o abstraktn\u00ed my\u0161lenky, kter\u00e9 lze bez rozd\u00edlu aplikovat, ale o p\u0159\u00edklady toho, co bylo \u0159e\u010deno v konkr\u00e9tn\u00edch situac\u00edch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Podstatou spirituality pou\u0161t\u011b je to, \u017ee nebyla vyu\u010dov\u00e1na, ale zachycena; byla to cel\u00e1 \u017eivotn\u00ed cesta. Nebyla to esoterick\u00e1 doktr\u00edna ani p\u0159edem stanoven\u00fd pl\u00e1n asketick\u00e9 praxe, kter\u00fd by se dal nau\u010dit a aplikovat. Otec, neboli \u201eabba\u201c, nebyl ekvivalentem zenov\u00e9ho buddhistick\u00e9ho \u201emistra\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je d\u016fle\u017eit\u00e9 to pochopit, proto\u017ee ve skute\u010dnosti neexistuje zp\u016fsob, jak hovo\u0159it o zp\u016fsobu modlitby nebo duchovn\u00edm u\u010den\u00ed pou\u0161tn\u00edch otc\u016f. Nem\u011bli systematick\u00fd zp\u016fsob; m\u011bli tvrdou pr\u00e1ci a zku\u0161enosti z cel\u00e9ho \u017eivota, kdy se sna\u017eili nasm\u011brovat ka\u017ed\u00fd aspekt t\u011bla, mysli a du\u0161e k Bohu, a o tom tak\u00e9 hovo\u0159ili. To tak\u00e9 mysleli modlitbou: modlitba nebyla \u010dinnost\u00ed, kterou vykon\u00e1vali n\u011bkolik hodin denn\u011b, byla to \u017eivot neust\u00e1le obr\u00e1cen\u00fd k Bohu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abba Agathon \u0159ekl: \u201eModlitba je tvrd\u00e1 pr\u00e1ce a velk\u00fd boj a\u017e do posledn\u00edho dechu\u201c a existuje p\u0159\u00edb\u011bh o Abbovi Lotovi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abba Joseph p\u0159i\u0161el za Abbou Lotem a \u0159ekl mu: \u201eOt\u010de, podle sv\u00fdch sil dodr\u017euji um\u00edrn\u011bn\u00e9 pravidlo modlitby a p\u016fstu, ticha a meditace a pokud mohu, ovl\u00e1d\u00e1m svou p\u0159edstavivost; co je\u0161t\u011b mus\u00edm ud\u011blat?\u201c A star\u00fd mu\u017e vstal a vzty\u010dil ruce k nebi, tak\u017ee jeho prsty se staly jako plameny ohn\u011b, a \u0159ekl: \u201ePokud bude\u0161 cht\u00edt, stane\u0161 se cel\u00fd plamenem.\u201c [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translated with DeepL.com (free version)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n [1] The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century<\/em>, trans. Thomas Merton (New Directions, 1960), 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [2] Benedicta Ward, The Desert Christian: Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection <\/em>(Macmillan, 1980), xviii-xix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image credit and inspiration<\/strong>: Dan Grinwis, untitled <\/em>(detail), 2017, photo, Namibia, Unsplash<\/a>. Click here to enlarge image<\/a>. By stepping freely into the desert, the seeker claims their own capacity to think and become whole in a vast place of transformation beyond the structures of any system<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Je d\u016fle\u017eit\u00e9 to pochopit, proto\u017ee ve skute\u010dnosti neexistuje zp\u016fsob, jak hovo\u0159it o zp\u016fsobu modlitby nebo duchovn\u00edm u\u010den\u00ed pou\u0161tn\u00edch otc\u016f. Nem\u011bli systematick\u00fd zp\u016fsob; m\u011bli tvrdou pr\u00e1ci a zku\u0161enosti z cel\u00e9ho \u017eivota, kdy se sna\u017eili nasm\u011brovat ka\u017ed\u00fd aspekt t\u011bla, mysli a du\u0161e k Bohu, a o tom tak\u00e9 hovo\u0159ili. To tak\u00e9 mysleli modlitbou: modlitba nebyla \u010dinnost\u00ed, kterou vykon\u00e1vali n\u011bkolik hodin denn\u011b, byla to \u017eivot neust\u00e1le obr\u00e1cen\u00fd k Bohu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[176,567,357],"class_list":["post-14008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-rohr-ofm-centrum-pro-zivot-a-rozjimani","tag-modlitba","tag-poustni-otcove","tag-thomas-merton","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14009,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions\/14009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frantiskani.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Pro\u017eit\u00e9 zku\u0161enosti pou\u0161tn\u00edch otc\u016f<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Je t\u0159eba \u010d\u00edst v kontextu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Pou\u0161tn\u00ed otec ale nen\u00ed guru<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Jejich c\u00edlem bylo setk\u00e1n\u00ed s Bohem<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Nap\u0159\u00edklad Abba Agathon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Prameny:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n