A moving new video for “Leaving the Table,” from the late Leonard Cohen‘s last LP, “You Want It Darker,” has been released. It begins with what one might read as a meditating Cohen — he was a dedicated Zen student, after all — atop an abstract mountaintop/cross hybrid, and then leaping into the air, flying into a version of the world packed with references his to his life and work. Watch it here.
For more about Cohen’s life and his relationship to Zen Buddhism, read Pico Iyer’s “Leonard Cohen Burns, and We Burn With Him.”
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