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1. I, the pure, stainless and infinite Consciousness beyond maya, look upon this body in action like the body of another.
2. The mind, the intellect, the senses, etc. are all the play of Consciousness. They are unreal and seem to exist only due to lack of insight.
3. Unmoved by adversity, a friend of all the world in prosperity, without ideas of existence and non-existence, I Live free from misery.
4. Inactive am I, desireless, clear as the sky, free from hankering, tranquil, formless, everlasting and unmoving.
5. I have now clearly understood that the five elements, the three worlds and I myself are pure Consciousness.
6. I am above everything ; I am present everywhere ; I am like space; I am that which (really) exists; I am unable to say anything beyond this.
7. Let imaginary waves of universe rise or fall in me who am the ocean of infinite Consciousness ; there is no increase or decrease in me.
8. How wonderful that in me, the infinite ocean of Consciousness, waves of jivas (individual souls) rise, sport for a while and disappear according to their nature.
9. The world which has come into existence on account of my ignorance has dissolved likewise in me. I now directly experience the world as supreme bliss of Consciousness.
10. I prostrate to myself who am within all being, the ever free Self abiding as inner consciousness.
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Yoga Vasishta Sara - SELECTED VERSES - Meditation on the Self
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Painting by Nicolas Poussin
It took me a long time and a lot of funny looks to get this shot. This fella was like a rock right up until I snapped the shutter and he shrugged his shoulder. I actually think it adds a little more character to the shot.
Some believe 2020 will bring a new consciousness as the guiding lights awake the ground crew. .Well you better believe as it has started.
Quite a lot goes through my mind when I'm out and about en femme. It's my nature. I try to see and understand everything but, as is evident, I'm rather shortsighted so I see very little and understand even less!
Brille - bewusst - Brenner / Glasses - conscious - Brenner
This store always stands out for creative window decorations.
Frankfurt, Goethestr.
Immortal Queen - Sia
youtu.be/P-pgjy865Ag?feature=shared
lyrics
Get in your time machine and step to the future
Check it, I'm queen every time that you look to
Kid robots bring me a champagne
I'ma get you, get you, get you, get you saying my name
I'm a matrix, gonna play tricks
Gonna cut sick, gonna get my pick, gonna lick, lick
Immune to absolution is my skill
Keep it fresh, fresh, keep my lyrics killer
I'ma dominate (I'ma slay)
I'ma dominate (I'ma slay, slay)
I'ma dominate (I'ma slay, slay, slay)
I'ma dominate (I'ma slay, I'ma slay)
And in one thousand million years
I'ma still be everywhere
You won't forget me
The immortal queen
Before planet Earth was here
I was riding a lightyear
And then I was Eve
The immortal queen
Get in your time machine and step to the past, past
Check it, I'm queen from beginning to the last, last
Queen Victoria, Queen of Sheba
Queen of bees, yeah, I'm queen diva
Caveman bring the cave queen carvings
Feeding the queen while the cavemen starving
Beatniks write for me and my mama
Used to be queen, didn't cause enough drama
I'ma dominate (I'ma slay)
I'ma dominate (I'ma slay, slay)
I'ma dominate (I'ma slay, slay, slay)
I'ma dominate (I'ma slay, I'ma slay)
And in one thousand million years
I'ma still be everywhere
You won't forget me
The immortal queen
Before planet Earth was here
I was riding a lightyear
And then I was Eve
The immortal queen
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
The immortal queen
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
The immortal queen
Ah, ooh
Whoa
And in one thousand million years
I'ma still be everywhere
You won't forget me
The immortal queen
Before planet Earth was here
I was riding a lightyear
And then I was Eve
The immortal queen
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
The immortal queen
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
No, you won't, no, you won't forget me
The immortal queen
Actualization of the consciousness of the Absolute (the "remembrance of God" or "prayer" in so far as it brings about a fundamental confrontation of creature and Creator) is already a death and a meeting with God and it places us already in Eternity; it is already something of Paradise and even, in its mysterious and "uncreated" quintessence, something of God.
Whatever is not here is nowhere, and whatever is not now will never be. As is this moment in which I am free to choose God, so will be death, Judgement and Eternity. Likewise in this center, this Divine point which I am free to choose in the face of this boundless and multiple world, I am already in invisible Reality.
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Human life is studded with uncertainties; man loses himself in what is uncertain instead of holding on to what is absolutely certain in his destiny, namely death, Judgement and Eternity. (But besides these there is a fourth certainty, immediately accessible moreover to human experience, and this is the present moment, in which man is free to choose either the Real or the illusory, and thus to ascertain for himself the value of the three great eschatological certainties. )
The consciousness of the sage is founded upon these three points of reference, whether directly or in an indirect and implicit manner through "remembrance of God".
Besides the dimension of succession, however, one must also consider that of simultaneity, which is based on spatial symbolism: the world around us is full of possibilities presented to our choice, whether we wish it or not; thus it is full of uncertainties, not successive as in the flux of life, but simultaneous like the things offered to us by space.
Here too whoever wishes to resolve these uncertainties must hold on to what is absolutely certain and this is what stands above us, namely God and our immortality in God.
But even here below there is something which is absolutely certain when we are confronted with the multitudinous and bewildering possibilities of the world, something of which sacred forms represent so many exteriorizations, and this is metaphysical truth and the "remembrance of God", that center which is within us and which places us, to the extent that we participate in it, beneath the "vertical" axis of Heaven, of God, of the Self.
Man finds himself in space and in time, in the world and in life, and these two situations imply two eschatological and spiritual axes, the one static and "vertical", the other dynamic and "horizontal" and more or less temporal; thus it is that contingency, in the mind of the contemplative man, is conceived in terms of the Absolute, is attached to it and leads back to it. But these various points of reference, in effect, only enter into consideration to the extent that the sage is necessarily conscious of contingent situations; they characterize his manner of taking account of his own relativity.
Within this whole context, but completely independent of it and not in any sense "localized", resides that mystery where knowing is being and being is knowing; in other words, these certainties of "succession" and "simultaneity", of "life" and "world", form the necessary framework of contemplation, representing points of reference which serve to free us from the world and from life, or which facilitate that liberation.
Indeed exoterism, which is the necessary basis of esoterism, is in the last analysis centered upon these elements which concern our final ends, namely Heaven and God, or death, Judgement and Eternity, and our own terrestrial attitudes as conforming to these realities.
The important thing to grasp here is that actualization of the consciousness of the Absolute (the "remembrance of God" or "prayer" in so far as it brings about a fundamental confrontation of creature and Creator) anticipates every station on the two axes: it is already a death and a meeting with God and it places us already in Eternity; it is already something of Paradise and even, in its mysterious and "uncreated" quintessence, something of God.
Quintessential prayer brings about an escape from the world and from life, and thereby confers a new and Divine sap upon the veil of appearances and the current of forms, and a fresh meaning to our presence amidst the play of phenomena.
Whatever is not here is nowhere, and whatever is not now will never be. As is this moment in which I am free to choose God, so will be death, Judgement and Eternity. Likewise in this center, this Divine point which I am free to choose in the face of this boundless and multiple world, I am already in invisible Reality.
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Frithjof Schuon
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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image: Sacramentarium from bibliotheque national
When I agree to interviews from magazines or answer questions after a talk, I'm often asked who my heroes are. I take this question to mean 'Who are those men and women whose qualities, skills, output, etc, you most admire?' I could speak of those achievements I most admire - Darwin, say, for conceiving one of the most important ideas in science; or Gandhi, for showing the power of non-violence - but I always think of my heroes as more personal to me. I name thinkers such as Peter Singer or Germaine Greer or David Foster Wallace, who raised my consciousness and really changed the way I think about life; or actors and musicians like Jackie Chan, for the sheer joy his body of work has brought me ever since I was a child; or like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, whose voices and words have comforted me through nights when I could not sleep because my heart seemed to ache.
And then this week I met one of my heroes, and spent enough time with him to do more than just shake his hand and say thank you.
When I learned that the cinematographer Chris Doyle was going to be in Glasgow and I was invited to have dinner with him, to get drunk with him and, as it turned out, to shoot a short film with him, I was at first gripped less by excitement or exhilaration than by an anxiety that I couldn't understand or pin down. But then I realised it has to do with a problem that I face in almost all human interaction: how to be authentic, how to be sincere, how to be true and how can you be true if you're always thinking about what it means to be true and judging yourself on whether or not you're doing it? It's a conundrum that the aforementioned David Wallace often explores so well in his work:
"Imagine you've gone to a party where you know very few of the people there, and then on your way home afterwards you suddenly realize that you just spent the whole party so concerned about whether the people there seemed to like you or not that you now have absolutely no idea where you liked any of them or not... (plus of course it almost always turns out that the people at the party actually didn't like you, for the simple reason that you seemed so inbent and self-conscious the whole time that they got the creepy subliminal feeling that you were using the party merely as some sort of stage to perform on...)" The solution Wallace proposes is asking a question "perilously close to "Do you like me? Please like me," which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene. In fact one of the very last few interpersonal taboos we have is this kind of obscenely naked direct interrogation of somebody else. It looks pathetic and desperate." (DFW, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men)
And if you are the kind of person who feels like this in most interactions with other human beings you've just met, then the problem is intensified when those other human beings are unusually talented or intelligent or kind or wise or have offensively beautiful faces or bodies. This unusual talent or intelligence becomes even more intimidating when it has affected you directly, not just in a Gosh I'm Such A Big Fan kind of way but like If You Hadn't Done What You've Done My Own Life Might Be Very Different.
So it is with Chris Doyle. The beauty and the power of images would probably have revealed themselves to me another time in another way, but as it is it happened when I was sixteen, watching Christopher Doyle's images move upon the screen in my bedroom. Until then, I took photographs only because it amused me to do so; because it helped me overcome my shyness, because I liked to look back and remember. I didn't care if the photographs I took were beautiful, or if they spoke.
I remember, while we were at dinner, at one point thinking "OMG I'm having dinner with Chris Doyle!" It was like looking down while walking across a rope bridge. Before then, I had been fine; I had been myself (my drunk self, anyway, but that's probably more me than my sober self is). But what lessons did I learn? I hope to hang out with Chris again, and I like him, but he's no hero: he's just a man who makes beautiful images and those beautiful images affected my life in a substantial way. Why do I need him to like me, or like my work? Of course this is just a cliche, a truth which I knew but which, having been able to apply it through experience, now I can feel. I was reminded of the words of my friend Martin Firrell:
"I think one should give up one's heroes, if one has any. By all means, revere the gift, but the gift is never the man."
Glasgow, 2013.
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Whatever you see – it is you
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Soulscape
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B3 - this energy motivates you to analyse your self.
"Who am I?"
A3 would motivate to the question:
"Do I look ok?"
If you are interested in your psyche, your dreams and your consciousness, be sure this interest is empowered by B3.
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Energy B3 motivates: Find out who you are.
When I felt unhappy with myself and the world, the key to happiness lay in my self. I could not change the world, but the way I see the world has changed dramatically. These changes are very welcome to me because they caused inner peace.
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Seelenlandschaften
Dieses ist ein „Seelenbild”, das heißt es zeigt einen innerseelischen Vorgang.
Dieser Vorgang wird auch Selbstbetrachtung oder Selbstanalyse genannt. Selbstanalyse ist die Voraussetzung für inneren Frieden mit mir und meiner Umwelt.
Mit anderen Worten: Ich bin nicht mehr abhängig davon, was andere von mir denken. Kein Verbiegen mehr, sondern authentisches Sein.
Im Prozess der Selbstbetrachtung wandelt sich die von Außen herangetragene Kritik und wird durch den Vorgang der Selbstkritik ersetzt. In der letzen Stufe wird die Selbstkritik von innerem Frieden abgelöst.
Innerer Friede ist die Gnade, sich selbst so akzeptieren zu können, wie man ist. Äußere Kritik kann dieser inneren Ausbalanciertheit kaum noch etwas anhaben.
Mit diesem Bild möchte ich einen wichtigen Aspekt der Energie B3 zeigen. Dieser löst Selbstbezogenheit aus. Doch keineswegs narzisstische.
Mirror Mirror ist das Gegenteil der Energie, zu der A3 motiviert. Wer einen starken Schub von dieser Energieform bekommt, wird automatisch narzisstisch. Viele kennen das Märchen Schneewittchen und die Eitelkeit der bösen Königin. In diesem Zusammenhang taucht die berühmte Frage auf: „Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?“ Eitelkeit und Narzissmus gehen Hand in Hand.
Mit dem oben gezeigten Bild ist es die psychoanalytische Selbstbespiegelung gemeint. Daher ist der Schatten von A3 – B3, die Tiefenpsychologie.
Psychologische Betrachtungen durch A3 bleiben an der Oberfläche (äußeres Leben)– B3 geht in die Tiefe (inneres Leben).
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Two weeks into the UK’s stay at home Coronavirus prevention policy I am realising the plans I had to move my female activities to a new level are now going to be suspended. It has literally taken me years to gain even a small amount of confidence in my ability to create an illusion of being female. In my heart I yearn to look feminine and pass as a woman. I have never had the self belief I can even come close to such a dream. I have, in the last few months, managed to start building a foundation of confidence that made me determined to venture out in public as a woman.
It is ironic really that just as I mange to establish that confidence it is no longer advisable to venture out! I totally believe that the only way to limit the spread of Coronavirus is stay at home and avoid contact to minimise any transmission of the virus from person to person.
I am grateful I managed a bit of time to cross-dress as a woman just before the seriousness of the virus finally sank in and that we all really need to take drastic precautions. My memories of the recent dressing opportunities are still strong and I am still experiencing euphoria. I know this delight will remain with me for many months.
During my last cross-dressing session I felt a new ease building within me which strengthened my resolve that I do need to experience time out in the world as a woman. I know on some deep emotional level I now truly need and desire this outlet in my life. I need to be a woman existing in the world around me. I am not talking about transition, more I just need have opportunities to set free and express this part of myself.
I recorded quite a few videos recently as I had a real need to actually say what I was feeling out loud and being alone with my transvestism the camera is my outlet for this. Do not worry, I know how rubbish my videos are so I won’t be inflicting a huge raft of them onto my photo stream. It is more the moment of recording I gain fulfilment from. Sitting in front of the camera as a woman is just so amazing an experience for me personally that I can barely contain my joy and excitement, and so I literally talk in a stream of consciousness manner! I can recommend it if you too feel you need an outlet and are alone with your desire to appear as a woman.
This picture captures me in a way I enjoy being. I dream of being female, being feminine and try to imagine I am a woman. I can only get close to my dream by wearing wigs, make-up and female clothing. I acknowledge I am deluding myself and indulging in a fantasy but it is undeniably rewarding on many levels.
I will admit I feel more at ease appearing as I do this in picture, everything feels so right. I genuinely feel more confident wearing a dress and always find wearing make-up really boosts my confidence considerably. Losing myself in my dream of being female is always wonderful and though I do eventually return to being a man, my time as a woman is always something I treasure.
Mystical consciousness is also an unmediated, unbrokered, direct, intimate union with God. Unmediated means beyond the need for information from our logical brain or theological authorities. Mystical consciousness has left the precincts both of subjective thought and blind obedience. It tiptoes instead into the palace of heart, soul, and bodymind. This happens through intuition, visions, images, dreams, peak experiences, contemplation, ecstatic states, and epiphanies.
-Everything Ablaze Meditating on the Mystical Vision of Teilhard de Chardin, David Richo
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty".
[Albert Einstein]
"Istota ludzka jest częścią całości, którą nazywamy "wszechświatem", częścią ograniczoną w czasie i przestrzeni. Doświadcza ona siebie, swych myśli i uczuć jako czegoś oddzielonego od reszty- to jakby optyczne złudzenie jej świadomości. Złudzenie to jest dla nas czymś w rodzaju więzienia, ograniczającego nas do własnych pragnień i uczuć żywionych wobec kilku najbliższych osób. Naszym zadaniem jest uwolnienie się z tego więzienia poprzez poszerzanie kręgów współczucia, tak by objęły one wszystkie żywe stworzenia i całą naturę w jej cudownym pięknie."
[Albert Einstein]
Explored, 17 March 2007, #14
Without consciousness, “matter” dwells in an undetermined state of probability. Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
Not awake nor asleep, just passing through time as do passers-by,
Neither party waving or seeing the other
Slowly losing grip on a small world he carries in a crumpled and worn-out bag
Sinking in to numbness below the level of consciousness
In a sea of activity the spirit and life slowly drowns
Not sure why I wrote the above. I was just trying to sum my thoughts on the above image and it came out like a poem :-) I don't do that often.
Music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LOgMWbDGPA
Camera: Canon 5D
Lens: Canon 70-200mm @ 153mm
Aperture: F3.5
Speed: 160th
ISO: 400
Exposure Compensation: -4/3rd
Reached Explore: #43
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Nur in der Rückschau,
in der Zusammenfassung alles Erfahrenen,
besitzen wir
unser eigenes Leben ganz.
Georg Moser
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Sleeping Consciousness
Dreaming the World
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Schlafendes Bewusstsein
Schlafend ging ich durch die Welt – viele Leben.
Schlafend erlebte ich die Welt – viele Leben.
Wach sehe ich überall schlafende Buddhas.
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Anmerkung:
This is digital art work, not reality.
Das Bild ist ein digital hergestelltes Werk.
Jede Ähnlichkeit mit realen Gegebenheiten wäre rein zufällig.