[UA] Re: The Hermit

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

What about Ramon Lull, climbing Mt. Randa and
hammering out, well, essentially, a whole bunch of pie
charts on the human condition.

Would that count as successfully channelling the
Hermit or the Pilgrim?

I figure the ol' "wisdom comes from the wilderness"
addage applies more to someone who goes someplace
distant or full of deprivations and returns.

In that case, you could count Sir Richard Burton,
Stanley or Livingston and maybe Sir K. Digby as
examples of the hermit.  After all, Buddha was pretty
alone when he sat under the tree.  He gathered his
followers after he realized that walking around was as
likely to lead to suffering as sitting under a tree
without eating. Or whatever.

Mythically, Odin dangled from Yggdrasil for, what,
forty days before he discovered runes?  

The Hermit, unlike the Pilgrim, has done with
searching.  Sort of like a melding of the Demagogue
and the Pilgrim, the Hermit has been there and done
that.  The Hermit has learned and can teach, the
diploma being the scars garnered in the wilderness.


--- Nick Wedig <mrteapot at disinfo.net> wrote:
> >>I doono.. what about the infamous Man on the
> mountain that everyone is
> >>always searching for to ask "what is the meaning
> to life?"
> >
> >Stereotypical not archetypal.  As the great wise
> man from whom all knowledge 
> >flows said, one must determine if the character is
> a recurring theme in 
> >fiction and legend or a recurring theme throughout
> history.
> 
> I can think of numerous monks who actually existed
> who more-or-less fit the mold of the master secluded
> in a hermitage and were sought out by students.  I
> was thinking the other day that the Buddha (who sat
> under a tree for, by some accounts, a year in order
> to reach enlightenment) 

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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