Street monks

We are always used to images of monks in the process of contemplation. Portraits inside temples, intent on praying, we savored their pure souls and great wisdom. The World iconography shows them through a frame not always objective, made of themes and contexts often repetitive and not very realistic. These men from the noble heart are still men, like all of us. They have interests, they living the modernity. They laugh and get angry as any person in the world. They walk barefoot through the streets of towns and cities, dressed only in a long yellow ocher cloak or red amaranth; but it is also possible to meet them on a bus, taxi or plane while having a chat with their "civilian" friends. They are reaching out to the full understanding of a life that often is imposed on them. They do it with the sacred texts in a hand and the phone in the other. Work, play, get lost and find themselves. They are “Street Monks”. Adjusted to everyday life, to a world that is too fast to be only contemplated.