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Le Silence de la Mer. A film. A Meditative Exploration of Noble Silence. Set in Nazi occupied France. A French cinema masterpiece

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On a cold winter’s night in March (2025), I placed myself in the armchair in front of the warmth of the wood-burning stove at home in the kitchen-diner. In my lap, I had my tablet searching in YouTube for a film to watch. I came across Le Silence de la Mer (The Silence of the Sea – with subtitles), a 90-minute French film made for television in 2004.

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A former German Marxist wrote sentences of poignant beauty about the Buddhist tradition and the importance of deep wisdom

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Edward Conze (1904-1979) ranks among the much loved commentators/translators in the Buddhist tradition. Although born in London, Conze came from a German family with their home in Langenberg, Germany. In the 1930s, he wrote The Principle of Contradiction, a Marxist inspired text on dialetical materialism. A fierce critic of Fascism, he found himself harassed for his views.  In 1933, the Nazis burnt his books in Berlin among thousands of other books, as they were deemed “unGerman.” …

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