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Week 96 Trust and Faith
I was away for a break in a forest cabin and this sweet little deer came along outside the lounge doors, scratched the ground to make a little bed and lay down, just staring at me watching her. I picked up my camera and slid open the doors, expecting her to get up and run away but she just continued to lie there, totalling trusting that I wouldn't harm her. She must have lain there for at least 15 minutes before I left to go out myself so I think that fulfills the week's challenge for Faith and Trust (in humanity).
One element of the One Mile Array with C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE).
Comet NEOWISE is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020.
MUESTRA FOTOGRAFICA.
LAUTARO, EL AUTISMO Y EL AGUA.
El TGD, Trastorno Generalizado del Desarrollo (autismo), esta siendo considerado como una epidemia, afecta a 4 de cada 1000 niños.
El síndrome autista ataca fundamentalmente las capacidades para las relaciones e interacciones sociales. Depende del grado puede no haber habla y estereotipias muy marcadas como girar sin cesar objetos, balancearse, auto agredirse, no reparar en sonidos fuertes como si fuera sordo o no ser capaz de mirar a los ojos a otra persona, un ejemplo grafico podría ser el encuentro del niño con el padre después de horas sin verse y no demostrar interés alguno en querer compartir el momento, como si en realidad nunca se hubiera dado ese encuentro.
El tratamiento tiene que empezar ni bien se detectan los primeros síntomas, esto va a ayudar a revertir muchas de las conductas que lo perjudican, los tratamientos son multidisciplinarios, (psicología, terapia ocupacional, educación física, iniciación pedagógica, fonoaudiología, etc.) por citar algunas de las formas en que se aborda a los niños/as con esta patología.
Lautaro tiene 8 años, es mi hijo y a los 2 años lo diagnosticaron como autista, el presentaba rasgos de los descriptos anteriormente.
Comenzó su tratamiento en un CET, (centro educativo terapéutico) donde un grupo de profesionales lo asiste. Las mejorías en el transcurso de los años son el puntapié para tratar de que pueda, de adulto, tener la mayor independencia posible.
LA FOTOGRAFIA.
Como fotógrafo aborde la imagen como una manera más de comunicarme con mi hijo, se dice que la mente autista reconoce mejor el lenguaje si ve la acción en un dibujo, entonces pensé que seria una buena forma de relacionarme.
Al principio Lautaro no respondía a los estímulos que podían provocar las fotos, le era muy dificultoso reconocerse y hacerlo en un entorno.
Con el tiempo empecé a recuperar su mirada, intentamos repasar fotos de las vacaciones, nombrar el mar, comenzó a disfrutar de las sesiones fotográficas, reconoce ese juego que se inicia con la cámara de fotos y termina cuando nos sentamos a ver que es lo que estábamos haciendo. Se sorprende, gesticula y manifiesta todo tipo de sensaciones ante el instante vivido, congelado por siempre en una imagen.
EL AGUA.
El agua es el elemento más poderoso que tiene este planeta, tan poderoso que sin él no habría vida. Ella nos quita la sed e hidrata nuestro cuerpo, con ella nos aseamos y refrescamos, la tierra la reclama constantemente para dar de beber a sus cultivos, en la filosofía oriental, es el YIN, se emparenta con lo femenino, serena y da paz, es imparable cuando se lo propone y apaga el fuego voraz y destructor.
Lautaro no es ajeno a esto, su relación con el agua es un enigma, con ella puede pasar del éxtasis a la calma en un segundo, la mira, la agita, se sumerge, esta horas con ella, riega las plantas, la hace lodo y en el se funde.
LA MUESTRA.
Hace unos años que retrato el desarrollo de mi hijo. Pienso en aquellos padres y madres que no encuentran consuelo posible cuando se enteran del diagnostico, quiero que no los aborde la desesperación y que en las imágenes vean a un niño como cualquier otro, que sabe jugar, disfrutar, llorar y divertirse con su familia.
La relación de Lautaro con el agua es uno de los episodios de este registro / exploración fotográfica junto a mi hijo. Y se convertirá en una muestra fotográfica, que va a realizarse el 5 de abril de 2010 en la galería de arte del Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Tiene como objetivo difundir la problemática del autismo, desmitificar, acortar la brecha, combatir el prejuicio y la ignorancia. Y estaría enmarcada dentro de las muchas actividades que se realizan en el mundo entero para el 2 de abril, que es el día internacional sobre la concientización del autismo.
Una serie de 15 fotografías en Blanco y negro curada por la Antropóloga y fotógrafa Andrea Chame, (coordinadora del programa de talleres de fotografia documental, seube UBA) junto a los compañeros y compañeras del seminario de produccion fotografica.
15 fotografías que hablan de un niño especial y su especial relación con el agua.
Monument historique
Eléments protégés : Eglise (cad. F 94) : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1967
Périodes de construction : 14e siècle, 16e siècle
Hemis Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery (gompa) of the Drukpa Lineage, located in Hemis, Ladakh, India. Situated 45 km from Leh, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Hemis Monastery existed before the 11th century and was re-established in 1672 by the Ladakhi king Sengge Namgyal. The annual Hemis festival honoring Padmasambhava is held here in early June.
Terma and tertöns : The essence of Tebetan Buddhism.
Padmasambhava (lit. "Lotus-Born"), also known as Guru Rinpoche, is a literary character of terma (Terma or "hidden treasure"- are key Tibetan Buddhist teaching, which the tradition holds were originally esoterically hidden by various adepts such as Padmasambhava and his consorts, in the 8th century for future discovery at auspicious times by other adepts, known as tertöns. As such, they represent a tradition of continuous revelation in Tibetan Buddhism. Termas are a part of Tantric Literature. Tradition holds that terma may be a physical object such as a text or ritual implement that is buried in the ground (or earth), hidden in a rock or crystal, secreted in a herb, or a tree, hidden in a lake (or water), or hidden in the sky (space). Though a literal understanding of terma is "hidden treasure", and sometimes objects are hidden away, the teachings associated should be understood as being “concealed within the mind of the guru”, that is, the true place of concealment is in the tertön's mindstream. If the concealed or encoded teaching or object is a text, it is often written in dakini script: a non-human type of code or writing).
Terma is an emanation of Amitabha (Amitābha or Amideva, is a celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism. Amitābha is the principal buddha in the Pure Land sect, a branch of Buddhism practiced mainly in East Asia, while in Vajrayana Amitābha is known for his longevity attribute, magnetising red fire element, the aggregate of discernment, pure perception and the deep awareness of emptiness of phenomena. According to these scriptures, Amitābha possesses infinite merits resulting from good deeds over countless past lives as a bodhisattva named Dharmakāra. "Amitābha" is translatable as "Infinite Light," hence Amitābha is also called "The Buddha of Immeasurable Life and Light" ).
Terma that is said to appear to tertons (A tertön is a discoverer of ancient texts or terma in Tibetan Buddhism) in visionary encounters and a focus of Tibetan Buddhist practice (Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Bhutan, Kalmykia and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, and India (particularly in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Dharamsala, Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim. It is also practiced in Northeast China. Religious texts and commentaries are contained in the Tibetan Buddhist canon such that Tibetan is a spiritual language of these areas. The Tibetan diaspora has spread Tibetan Buddhism to many Western countries, where the tradition has gained popularity. Among its prominent exponents is the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. The number of its adherents is estimated to be between ten and twenty million).
History
Hemis Monastery existed before the 11th century. Naropa, the pupil of the yogi Tilopa, and teacher of the translator Marpa is connected with this monastery. A translation was made by A. Grünwedel (Nӑro und Tilo,: Festschrift Ernst Kuhn, München 1916) of Naropa's biography that was found in Hemis monastery.
In this manuscript Naropa (or Naro) meets the "dark blue" (Skr.: nila: dark blue or black) Tilopa (or Tillo), a tantric master, who gives Naropa 12 "great" and 12 "small" tasks to do in order to enlighten him to the inherent emptiness/illusoriness of all things. Naropa is depicted as the "abbott of Nalanda" (F. Wilhelm, Prüfung und Initiation im Buche Pausya und in der Biographie des Naropa, Wiesbaden 1965, p. 70), the university-monastery in today's Bihar, India, that flourished until the sacking by Turkish and Afghan Muslim forces. This sacking must have been the driving force behind Naropa's peregrination in the direction of Hemis. After Naropa and Tilopa met in Hemis they travelled back in the direction of a certain monastery in the now no longer existing kingdom of Maghada, called Otantra which has been identified as today's Otantapuri. Naropa is consered the founding father of the Kagyu-lineage of the Himalayan esoteric Buddhism. Hence Hemis is the main seat of the Kagyu lineage of Buddhism.
In 1894 Russian journalist Nicolas Notovitch claimed Hemis as the origin of an otherwise unknown gospel, the Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sons of Men, in which Jesus is said to have traveled to India during his "lost years." According to Notovitch, the work had been preserved in the Hemis library, and was shown to him by the monks there while he was recuperating from a broken leg. But once his story had been re-examined by historians, Notovitch confessed to having fabricated the evidence. Bart D. Ehrman states that "Today there is not a single recognized scholar on the planet who has any doubts about the matter. The entire story was invented by Notovitch, who earned a good deal of money and a substantial amount of notoriety for his hoax". However, the Indian Pandit Swami Abhedananda also claims to have read the same manuscript, and published his account of viewing it after his visit to Hemis in 1921. Abhedananda claims on the book jacket that it was translated for him with the help of a "local Lama interpreter." In the same vein, Notovich did not initially translate the manuscript, but reported his Sherpa guide did so as Notovitch could not read the original text. Notovich's version of the manuscript was translated from Tibetan to Russian to French to English. According to Swami Abhedananda's account, his Lama's translation was equivalent to the one published by Notovich. The Gutenberg Project has published the entire manuscript as a free ebook.
Hemis Festival
The Hemis Festival is dedicated to Lord Padmasambhava (Guru Rimpoche) venerated as the Dance Performance at Hemis Monastery representative reincarnate of Buddha. He is believed to have been born on the 10th day of the fifth month of the Monkey year as predicted by the Buddha Shakyamuni. It is also believed that his life mission was, and remains, to improve the spiritual condition of all living beings. And so on this day, which comes once in a cycle of 12 years, Hemis observes a major extravaganza in his memory. The observance of these sacred rituals is believed to give spiritual strength and good health. The Hemis festival takes place in the rectangular courtyard in front of the main door of the monastery. The space is wide and open save two raised square platforms, three feet high with a sacred pole in the center. A raised dias with a richly cushioned seat with a finely painted small Tibetan table is placed with the ceremonial items - cups full of holy water, uncooked rice, tormas made of dough and butter and incense sticks. A number of musicians play the traditional music with four pairs of cymbals, large-pan drums, small trumpets and large size wind instruments. Next to them, a small space is assigned for the lamas to sit.
The ceremonies begin with an early morning ritual atop the Gompa where, to the beat of drums and the resounding clash of cymbals and the spiritual wail of pipes, the portrait of "Dadmokarpo" or "Rygyalsras Rimpoche" is then ceremoniously put on display for all to admire and worship.
The most esoteric of festivities are the mystic mask dances. The Mask Dances of Ladakh are referred collectively as chams Performance. Chams performance is essentially a part of Tantric tradition, performed only in those gompas which follow the Tantric Vajrayana teachings and the monks perform tantric worship.
Source: Wikipedia and others.
The Fifth Element has one of the most epic taxi rides ever captured in cinema. When fate drops into the back of Korben Dallas's cab (literally), it leads to a high speed chase unmatched for it's time. The bulbous flying cars have a classic style to them hearkening back to the early days of automobiles. This flying yellow cab and sprawling city landscape have been the inspiration for many sci-fi worlds, connecting familiarity with the future. The model is very strong, swooshable if you like, and comes with a display stand as well :)
She was exposed to a new element in her life... The Sand!
She was scared first time she stood alone on these small tiny grains, It didn't take her long until she began playing, squeezing and eating the sand!
it was fun, God bless her.
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enjoy~