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But he also experiences a remote Benedictine hermitage as his second home, retreating there many times each year. As a journalist and novelist, he travels the globe from Ethiopia to North Korea, and he lives in Japan. But he has become one of our most beloved and eloquent translators of the modern rediscovery of inner life. In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at the incredible insi.Krista Tippett, host: Pico Iyer is not a spiritual teacher or even, he says, a spiritual person per se. The place that travel writer Pico Iyer would most like to go Nowhere. He/she will have all the necessary qualifications to work in.
And somehow, almost immediately, it was as if a huge heaviness fell away from me, and the lens cap came off my eyes. It was almost the presence of these transparent walls that I think the monks had worked very, very hard to make available to us in the world. It was very silent, but really the silence wasn’t the absence of noise.
But he left and moved to Japan to create a modest, quiet, nearly technology-free life. He had an early successful career as a journalist with TIME magazine in New York City. Pico Iyer studied at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being.
I was really intrigued to learn that your first name, which you don’t use in your writing, is Siddharth, which is based in part on the Buddha’s first name.Mr. Your father was a philosopher, and your mother was also thinking about philosophy and religion. You were born and grew up in England and the U.S. Your parents were from India. Tippett: You have such an interesting background. Pico Iyer still lives in Japan with his wife when he’s not on the road chronicling what he calls the “global soul.” We spoke in 2015.Ms.
How would you describe, if you would describe, the spiritual sensibility that you absorbed in your early life with your parents?Mr. My father was a Theosophist, so in my four names, I have four religious traditions.Ms. And my fourth name sort of shows that I come from a lineage of south Indian priests. My third name is my father’s name, Raghavan, which is a good Hindu name. My second name, Pico — my parents, as philosophers, named me after the great Renaissance Catholic heretic Pico della Mirandola from Italy.
She always dresses in a sari, and when occasionally a missionary will pay a visit to her house and say, “Excuse me, ma’am. In fact, to this day, my 83-year-old mother lives in the hills of California. There were all the great myths and enchantments of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and the Indian stories that my parents passed on to me at bedtime.The other aspect was that both my parents had grown up in British India in Bombay, and so they were steeped in Shakespeare, English poetry, and the Bible. Both my parents were teaching philosophy at Oxford University when I was a little boy, and so I would come back from kindergarten, and there would be Tibetan monks in the room, sent by the Dalai Lama to learn Western philosophy from my Indian father to complement the Tibetan philosophy they had learned. Like any child, I didn’t appreciate it at the time, not until much later.
Tippett: Yes, and I think you know what I’m describing when I say that you are an intellectual. Later I realized what a blessing to grow up in the midst of all these traditions.Ms. She knows it better than anyone I’ve ever met.
Iyer: I’ve got to confess to you, I think of intellectual — my prejudice is almost to think of it as a bad word or a dirty word. I wonder if you were always interested in what you now refer to as the “inner world.” What I mean by that is, did you take it seriously as an intellectual?Mr. That’s also very defining. There’s one place in your writing where you refer to “all the institutions of higher skepticism” to which your father had sent you.
Iyer: Well, thank you so much. It runs all the way through your writing, finding people everywhere in unexpected places, exploring this part of life with a new kind of vigor and a new integrity.Mr. Tippett: I feel like, as an essayist and as a travel writer, as a novelist as well, you kind of are a cartographer, an observer, as well as a participant in the rediscovery of the inner world, both in yourself but also in the world at large. But, really, I hope the heart of my last 30 years as an adult has been about moving towards those things I can’t explain and that reason can’t begin to do justice to.Ms. I think you have to explore that world before you can turn your back on it or close the door on it.
So from the time I was nine, I was living on planes and flying across the North Pole to school by myself. In those days, it was actually cheaper to continue getting my education in England and flying back to my parents in the holidays than to go to the local private schools. I think it’s quite conscious in me that as a little boy, as you said, I grew up traveling a lot because — first being born to Indian parents in England, and then we moved to California when I was seven.
Iyer: Yes, which we quickly take for granted, and also the dramatic change that goes with it: that my grandparents almost had their home in their community and their tribe and their religion handed to them at birth, whereas I felt that I could, in some ways, create my own, which is a challenge, but it was a beautiful opportunity. Tippett: It’s one of the things that’s worth pausing every once in a while and taking in, isn’t it? No one ever says that, but it’s so true, this huge, dramatic change in our lifetime.Mr. I thought, this is an opportunity I don’t want to squander. My grandparents couldn’t have imagined that.
Tippett: Yes, and I feel like those kinds of figures who have investigated this fearlessly across the ages have been your companions. I thought, there’s this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps.Ms. Really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life. You’re traveling in order to be moved. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, that I’ve spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences.
But I don’t have the radiant clarity and certainty of many people whom I admire, who were born into a tradition and know from the first day that that is where they belong.Ms. To some extent, perhaps my whole life is going to be about making some kind of rigorous, useful collage of the many traditions I’ve been lucky enough to be exposed to and seeing how each can shed light on the other. On the other hand, I didn’t have one. That was just what I was thinking as I was saying that, that on the one hand I was lucky to be the beneficiary of, maybe, four religious traditions when I was growing up. Iyer: Yes, we’re really on uncharted ground in that regard. I think about that too as something so new.Mr.
But you’ve repeatedly written that you have never been tempted to take up formal spiritual practices yourself, that you don’t meditate, you don’t attend services.
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