The Gift of Kalmthout

The Gift of Kalmthout
by Goossen van der Weyden
1511
Oil on oak panel, 153 x 153 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear?
Squishy Jesus: I hear the water, I hear the birds.
Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat?
Squishy: No.
Po: Do you hear the grasshopper that is at your feet?
Squishy: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?
Po: Young man, how is it that you do not?