View allAll Photos Tagged Humankind
“So God created man in his own image…” (Genesis 1:26). As an avid photography enthusiast, this account brings to mind the images or photos I have taken of all kinds of people: family and friends (snapshots), children and old people (they both make interesting subjects), people on the street and in the malls, people at work and at rest, vendors, everyday people. Now a beautiful people-picture (portrait) includes at least two ingredients: good exposure and good timing (fondly called capturing the moment). A good exposure, for example, can show facial details that portray “lines” of character and years of hard work in old people, or innocence and inexperience in children. Good timing, on the other hand, captures a gamut of emotions: joy, fear, restlessness, peace, laughter, pain, intensity, confidence, sympathy, apathy and a whole lot more. I catch a glimpse of that complexity of the human being…and the image of God in man even in these photos. The physical features of humankind and his emotional, psychological, spiritual makeup together make him a marvelous creature. After all, he is both the high point of creation and made in the image of the Maker himself!
If my response to God is wonder and worship because of his greatness and goodness portrayed in his creation, my response to other people is one of respect. If human beings are created in the image of God, then they are always worthy of being treated with due respect regardless of who they are and what they do. The jeepney driver, the gasoline boy, the saleslady, the waitress, the balut vendor…in fact, ALL people are my esteemed colleagues in the human race.
Demolition, symbolism and religion, man’s fall from perfection led humankind to become self-conscious and feel shame for their naked bodies, I explored the idea of clothing as protection from our insecurities and innate discomfort with our nude self.
- Liking to demolish, the fall, links to lack of strength, later the fall of Jerusalem, imperfections and punishment.
- As a society detaching from religion led to more nudity and less self-respect.
- The Fall of Man, the loss of innocence and the burden of shame of one’s body is something that whether Christian or not we can all relate to.
- Criminal offences are often based on religious ideas of sin; public nudity is an arrestable offence.
Alba D’Urbano, Il Sarto Immortale, explored the relation between the body; external appearance and technology, creating garments that challenge the nature of clothing, exposing everything and nothing at once, with digital prints of the intimate naked form. I worked with sheer fabric so that the body was both exposed and covered, challenging the boundaries of nakedness.
This article is about the Greek conception of the transmigration of the soul. For the general concept, see Reincarnation.
A section of Metempsychosis (2019) by François Gachon
; a drop of water from the vapours in the sky transforms into a mountain stream, which flows into a great river and on into the sea, whence rises a dragon (pictured) that turns back to vapour; National Museum of Modern Art, (Important Cultural Property)[1]
Metempsychosis (Greek: μετεμψύχωσις) is a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. Generally, the term is derived from the context of ancient Greek philosophy, and has been recontextualised by modern philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer[2] and Kurt Gödel;[3] otherwise, the term "transmigration" is more appropriate. The word plays a prominent role in James Joyce's Ulysses and is also associated with Nietzsche.[4] Another term sometimes used synonymously is palingenesis.
Metempsychosis is a concept from Greek philosophy which is similar to reincarnation. Metempsychosis is also called "transmigration of souls" and describes the process of a soul being transferred to another body after death. This transfer can happen between any human and / or animal body. For example, a human can come back as another human, or as a bird or animal or reptile of some kind. Likewise, animal souls can come back as human. Metempsychosis is different from reincarnation because the soul is not going "up" or "down" the ladder as a result of good or bad actions in life. Instead, the soul chooses a new body as a way of gaining diverse experiences.
Pythagoras was the first to theorize metempsychosis as a potential life after death experience, and then Plato expounded on the theory in his Republic. While it is unclear whether Plato actually believed in metempsychosis, he was responsible for its popularization. In Plato's story, a warrior called Er travels to another, immortal realm, and then brings back knowledge to the mortal realm. While he is there, he sees metempsyschosis happening. The souls of the dead are congregated, choosing new bodies to inhabit—animals choosing to become different animals, men choosing to become other men, birds choosing to become men, and even gods choosing to become athletic heroes. When the soul had decided on its new home, it was told to drink from the River Lethe, and then sent down to earth to be born. There are some instances in the Bible of fallen angels taking on human or animal form (Genesis 3:1–7; 6:1–4) and of holy angels appearing as men (Mark 16:5) but this is not considered metempsychosis because the spirit is only inhabiting a body for a short period of time, not taking ownership of it until death.
While metempsychosis is a rather poetic idea, it is not a biblical one. Metempsychosis, reincarnation, and all other iterations of this myth are refuted by the Scriptures, which say that man has only one chance to live and only one time to die, after which he must face the judgment of a holy God (Hebrews 9:27). The reincarnation concept takes the pressure off of men by delaying, or even entirely eliminating the judgment of God. But it is very clear that God will judge each man according to the things he has done while in the body (2 Corinthians 5:10).
This should be sobering, and even frightening, when we think of the things we have done throughout our lives and the fact that God is completely holy and just, and cannot tolerate anything less than perfection to enter His presence. But God's character is also merciful and He is "a shield for all those who take refuge in him" (2 Samuel 22:31). This was proven by the life of Jesus, who came to live a perfect life and then die as a perfect sacrifice which (by its perfection and its eternal nature) could satisfy the justice of God on our behalf. Every man and woman must stand before God. Those who trust in their own good works to save them will fall short (Romans 3:20). But all who trust in Christ's righteousness rather than their own will be saved (John 3:16–18; Romans 5:1–2; 1 John 2:2). "What is metempsychosis?"
Answer: Metempsychosis is a concept in Greek philosophy related to reincarnation and the transmigration of the soul. It is the idea that, when a person dies, his or her soul is transferred into another body, either another human body or the body of an animal. There is nothing biblical about metempsychosis.
The theory of metempsychosis originated with Pythagoras and his teacher, Pherecydes of Syros, but the popularization of the concept is due to its adoption by Plato. According to Plato’s view, there is a fixed number of souls in existence, and those souls transmigrate in and out of human and animal bodies, never being destroyed. These souls sometimes travel to another, immortal realm, before returning to the mortal realm, bringing back knowledge. In Plato’s Republic, the soul of a warrior named Er travels to heaven and sees the souls of the dead choosing new bodies. Er sees tame animals choosing to be wild and vice versa, men choosing to be birds, birds choosing to become men, gods choosing to become athletes. Once the soul had made its choice, it drank of the River Lethe and was shot down to earth like a star to be born.
Scholars are not sure whether Plato actually believed in metempsychosis or whether his tales were meant to be allegorical. Metempsychosis is unlike reincarnation in that metempsychosis is based on the desire of the soul for new experiences rather than a result of judgment. In the theory of reincarnation, one’s good or bad actions in life determine the nature of the body assigned in the next life. Metempsychosis fits well with Greek philosophy and mythology as a whole; in the Greek myths, gods often take on a human and animal form to achieve their ends.
The idea of metempsychosis or reincarnation does not exist in the Bible. At times, spiritual beings took the form of men or animals to influence humankind. Satan appeared to Eve as a serpent in order to engineer the fall of man (Genesis 3:1–7). The holy angels sometimes appeared as men (Mark 16:5). And it seems that fallen angels once took on the form of men in order to procreate with human women and produce giant, evil offspring called Nephilim (Genesis 6:1–4). But none of this can be considered metempsychosis.
The Bible teaches that each human soul has one life; after death, the soul faces judgment (Hebrews 9:27). There is no coming back in another body of any form for any reason. Jesus gives a wise perspective: “I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him” (Luke 12:5).
Contents
1Europe before the pre-Socratic philosophers
2In Greek philosophy
3Post-Classical occurrence
4In literature after the classical era
5See also
6References
7External links
Europe before the pre-Socratic philosophers[edit]
It is unclear how the doctrine of metempsychosis arose in Greece. It is easiest to assume that earlier ideas which had never been extinguished were utilized for religious and philosophic purposes. The Orphic religion, which held it, first appeared in Thrace upon the semi-barbarous north-eastern frontier. Orpheus, its legendary founder, is said to have taught that soul and body are united by a compact unequally binding on either; the soul is divine, immortal and aspires to freedom, while the body holds it in fetters as a prisoner. Death dissolves this compact, but only to re-imprison the liberated soul after a short time: for the wheel of birth revolves inexorably. Thus the soul continues its journey, alternating between a separate unrestrained existence and fresh reincarnation, round the wide circle of necessity, as the companion of many bodies of men and animals." To these unfortunate prisoners Orpheus proclaims the message of liberation, that they stand in need of the grace of redeeming gods and of Dionysus in particular, and calls them to turn to God by ascetic piety of life and self-purification: the purer their lives the higher will be their next reincarnation, until the soul has completed the spiral ascent of destiny to live for ever as a God from whom it comes. Such was the teaching of Orphism which appeared in Greece about the 6th century BC, organized itself into private and public mysteries at Eleusis and elsewhere, and produced a copious literature.[5][6][7]
In Greek philosophy[edit]
The earliest Greek thinker with whom metempsychosis is connected is Pherecydes of Syros;[8] but Pythagoras, who is said to have been his pupil, is its first famous philosophic exponent. Pythagoras is not believed to have invented the doctrine or to have imported it from Egypt. Instead he made his reputation by bringing the Orphic doctrine from North-Eastern Hellas to Magna Graecia, and creating societies for its diffusion.
The real weight and importance of metempsychosis in Western tradition is due to its adoption by Plato.[citation needed] In the eschatological myth which closes the Republic he tells the myth how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world. After death, he said, he went with others to the place of Judgment and saw the souls returning from heaven, and proceeded with them to a place where they chose new lives, human and animal. He saw the soul of Orpheus changing into a swan, Thamyras becoming a nightingale, musical birds choosing to be men, the soul of Atalanta choosing the honours of an athlete. Men were seen passing into animals and wild and tame animals changing into each other. After their choice the souls drank of Lethe and then shot away like stars to their birth. There are myths and theories to the same effect in other dialogues, the Phaedrus, Meno, Phaedo, Timaeus and Laws.[citation needed] In Plato's view the number of souls was fixed; birth therefore is never the creation of a soul, but only a transmigration from one body to another.[9] Plato's acceptance of the doctrine is characteristic of his sympathy with popular beliefs and desire to incorporate them in a purified form into his system.[citation needed] The extent of Plato's belief in metempsychosis has been debated by some scholars in modern times. Marsilio Ficino (Platonic Theology 17.3–4), for one, argued that Plato's references to metempsychosis were intended allegorically.
In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander (the Inspired Woman) and satirized by Lucian (Gallus 18 seq.). In Roman literature it is found as early as Ennius,[10] who in his Calabrian home must have been familiar with the Greek teachings which had descended to his times from the cities of Magna Graecia. In a lost passage of his Annals, a Roman history in verse, Ennius told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock. Persius in one of his satires (vi. 9) laughs at Ennius for this: it is referred to also by Lucretius (i. 124) and by Horace (Epist. II. i. 52). Virgil works the idea into his account of the Underworld in the sixth book of the Aeneid (vv. 724 sqq.). It persists in antiquity down to the latest classic thinkers, Plotinus and the other Neoplatonists.
Post-Classical occurrence[edit]
Metempsychosis was a part of the Neo-Manichaen dogma of the Albigenses around France in the 12th century.[11]
Created in the early XVth century, the Rosicrucianist movement also conveyed an occult doctrine of metempsychosis.[12]
In literature after the classical era[edit]
"Metempsychosis" is the title of a longer work by the metaphysical poet John Donne, written in 1601.[13] The poem, also known as the Infinitati Sacrum,[14] consists of two parts, the "Epistle" and "The Progress of the Soule". In the first line of the latter part, Donne writes that he "sing[s] of the progresse of a deathlesse soule".[14]
Metempsychosis is a prominent theme in Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 short story "Metzengerstein".[15] Poe returns to metempsychosis again in "Morella" (1835)[16] and "The Oval Portrait" (1842).[17]
Metempsychosis is referred to prominently in the concluding paragraph of Chapter 98, "Stowing Down and Clearing Up", of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Metempsychosis is mentioned as the religion of choice by the minor character Princess Darya Alexandrovna Oblonsky in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
Herbert Giles uses the term metempsychosis in his translation of the butterfly dream from the Zhuangzi (Chinese: 《莊子》).[18] The use of this term is contested by Hans Georg Möller (de), though, who claims that a better translation is “the changing of things”.[19]
Metempsychosis is a recurring theme in James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses (1922).[20] In Joycean fashion, the word famously appears in Leopold Bloom's inner monologue, recalling how his wife, Molly Bloom, apparently mispronounced it earlier that day as "met him pike hoses."[21]
In Thomas Pynchon's 1963 premiere novel V., metempsychosis is mentioned in reference to the book "The Search for Bridey Murphy" by Morey Bernstein, and also later in chapter eight.
Metempsychosis is referenced in Don DeLillo's 1982 novel The Names.
In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis is an intentional malapropism of metempsychosis.
Guy de Maupassant's story "Le docteur Héraclius Gloss" (1875) is a fable about metempsychosis.
In Marcel Proust's famous first paragraph from In Search of Lost Time, the narrator compares his separation from the subject of a book to the process of metempsychosis.
In Robert Montgomery Bird's fiction novel Sheppard Lee Written by Himself (1836) the protagonist is a serial identity thief by way of metempsychosis.
The eponymous Archy of Don Marquis's archy and mehitabel poems is a cockroach with the transmigrated soul of a human vers libre poet.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF TATARSTAN
20 December, 2008
The Tatar people have already spent 456 years in slavery to Russian colonialism, which was as brutal as ever was known in the history of humankind. During this time many rulers of Russia came to power, as czars, emperors, first secretaries and presidents. Also, the social structure of this country changed: feudalism, capitalism, socialism, etc. Only one thing remained unchanged during all this time: a policy of forced conversion to Christianity, Russification, inhuman exploitation and physical elimination of the Tatar through permanent and goal-oriented genocide. At the beginning of the 18th century, according to a Census taken by Peter the Great, there were 5.5 million Russians and 5.5 million Tatars, and yet by the end of the 20th century there are 120 million Russians and the same 5.5 million Tatars.
At the end of the 1990s, Tatars in their final despair rose up to struggle with Russian colonialism and adopted a Declaration of Tatar State Sovereignty. They organized a referendum with supervision of foreign observers, including some form the USA, during which 61.4% of Tatarstan's population approved a claim for independence from Russia. Moreover, Tatarstan refused to participate in the referendum on the modern Constitution of Russia and to sign the Federative Agreement on the creation of the Russian Federation, confirming by this its illegitimacy. There are not any legal treaties whatsoever on the joining of the later to the Russian Federation.
The first president of Russia B. Yeltsin agreed to give to the Tatars as much liberty as they could handle. Unfortunately, this was the same kind of deceit as before, aimed only at pacifying Tatars and buying time. Whereas Russia was forced to agree to the escape of 14 colonies from their domination, it categorically refused to recognize the independence of Tatarstan, and it made its rule over this colony more severe, by the destruction of elementary rights of its people, including the right to have local legislative bodies and to select the president of Tatarstan. Right now, the Kremlin is appointing its Vice Roy from Moscow. Moreover, the Kremlin has deprived Tatars of the right to use the Latin alphabet as their own and has forced them to use the Cyrillic alphabet which is entirely unsuitable for the Tatar language. Recently it has deprived the Tatars of the opportunity to teach their children in Tatar.
Muslim Tatars are subject to severe prosecution, torture and many years of prison for refusal to worship in the mosques that are under the supervision of mullahs appointed by the Vice Roy administration, and for having Muslim books written in Arabic in their homes. At the same time the merciless robbery of the national resources of Tatarstan is continuing. The Kremlin is taking 85% of all the revenues from the sale of Tatarstan's oil for itself, and by this way depriving Tatarstan of their vital means for survival.
All of this is happening at the same time that the Russian Federation cynically and hypocritically recognized the independence of the Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. One can only ask what is the difference between the rights of the aforementioned republics and Tatarstan - a Russian colony? It is absolutely clear - there is no difference. The truth is that Russia practically enslaved the people of these republics by converting them into their citizens. Consequently, for Tatars there is no hope any more for the good will of the Russian colonizers to accomplish any kind of decolonization whatsoever.
Expressing the will of the Tatar People and in order to save them from entire elimination the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) of the Tatar People is:
1. Declaring support for the Declaration of State Sovereignty of August 30, 1990 and confirming the illegitimacy of including the Republic of Tatarstan into the Russian Federation without its consent.
2. Asking all governments and the United Nations to recognize the Independence of Tatarstan.
3. Creating the Government of Tatarstan in Exile for the protection of the interests of the Tatar People.
4. Calling all Tatars around the world to organize a permanent mass campaign in support of the Independence of Tatarstan before their governments and societies.
Adopted at a Special Meeting of the Milli Mejlis of the Tatar People on December 20, 2008.
Geologists called for the Sterkfontein Caves to be protected in the 1890s. David Draper, a respected geologist of the time, persuaded the miners to preserve the main cave because of its stalactites, stalagmites and pristine underground lake, but mining continued in the area. Signs of the lime workers’ activities can still be seen.
2012-04-09师父开示
Messages from Osifu
Master Deeply Loves the Earth
April 9th, 2012
师父一直在争分夺秒！
Master is always making full use of every second.
师父一直在和时间赛跑！
Master is always racing against time.
师父一直在和灾劫赛跑！
Master is always racing against disasters.
太多的众生需要救度，而师父在地球上为人类奉献的有效时间越来越少。
Too many sentient beings need to be saved while less and less time can be available to devote to humankind on the earth.
师父来时便知归期。
Master had known the return date when coming here.
来时便知归期
Return date is clear when coming.你们可懂得？
Can you understand?
师父的每一句话都是遗言。
Master’s every word is last word.
师父的每一句话都是心血。
Master’s every word is the heart blood.
师父的每一句话都是生命。
Master’s every word is life.
师父的每一句话都是能量。
Master’s every word is energy.
师父的每一句话都是信息。
Master’s every word is message.
师父的每一句话都是密码。
Master’s every word is cosmic code.
师父的每一句话都是光爱。
Master’s every word is light and love.
师父在地球上住留的时间只有短短的几十年，犹如流星划过漫漫长夜。
The time when Master remains on the earth is only short decades, just like a shooting star streaking the endless night.
短短的几十年，已经过去了三十多年。
In the short decades, more than thirty years have passed by.
大救度是宇宙中最大的公益事业。
Great Salvation is the biggest cause of public good in the universe.
师父为救度众生而来，师父为救度众生而归。
Master comes for rescuing all sentient beings, returning for rescuing all sentient beings.
救度众生这是师父住留地球的唯一的意义，这是师父的全部。
Rescuing all sentient beings is the only significance why Master lives on the earth. It is Master’s entireness.
地球是一个可爱的星球。
The earth is a lovely planet.
地球是宇宙的宠儿。
The earth is the favorite of the universe.
地球是宇宙的杰作。
The earth is the masterpiece of the universe.
地球是宇宙的奇葩。
The earth is the miracle of the universe.
师父爱地球，因为师父和地球的缘太深太深。
Master loves the earth because the predestination of Master and the earth is too deep.
师父爱地球，因为师父和地球人的缘太深太深。
Master loves the earth because the predestination of Master and people on the earth is too deep.
师父爱地球，因为师父和地球所有生灵的缘太深太深。
Master loves the earth because the predestination of Master and all sentient beings on the earth is too deep.
师父深爱着这颗星球。
Master loves the planet deeply.
师父深爱着这颗星球的生灵。
Master loves all sentient beings on the planet deeply.
师父深爱着这颗星球的一草一木一沙一石一水一尘。
Master loves a grass、a wood、a sand、a stone、a water and a dust on the planet deeply.
师父时刻祝福这颗星球。
Master blesses the planet at any time.
师父致力于这颗星球的平衡运行。
Master devotes himself to balanced operation of this planet.
师父致力于这颗星球的和谐和睦。
Master devotes himself to harmony and concord of this planet.
师父致力于这颗星球的和平和顺。
Master devotes himself to the peace and well-off of this planet.
师父致力于这颗星球的祥和圆满。
Master devotes himself to the auspicious and perfect of this planet.
师父致力于这颗星球的科学发展。
Master devotes himself to scientific development of this planet.
师父致力于这颗星球的持续运转。
Master devotes himself to continuous running of this planet.
师父致力于这颗星球的净化升华。
Master devotes himself to purification and sublimation of this planet.
师父致力于这颗星球的优化提升。
Master devotes himself to optimization and promotion of this planet.
宇宙需要这颗星球平衡运行下去。
The universe needs the planet to run evenly.
宇宙不忍心也不允许这颗星球毁灭。
The universe doesn’t bear and doesn’t allow this planet to be destroyed.
师父不忍心也不允许这颗星球毁灭。
Master doesn’t have the heart to allow this planet to be ruined.
师父会为此全力以赴。
Master will spare no effect.
生命不止，奉献不息。
Life doesn’t cease and dedication will not cease.
到了该离开的时候，师父就会离开这个可爱的星球。
When Master was due to leave, Master will leave the lovely planet.
在离开之前师父会把该说的话说完。
Before leaving, Master will finish the words which should be said.
所以，每一句都是遗言。
So, every word is last word.
殷切咐嘱，和盘托出。
Tell eagerly and reveal everything on my mind.
弟子们，你们要懂得爱彼此，帮助彼此。而不是互相伤害，陷入是非。因为你们是宇宙的孩子，你们是一家亲。
Disciples, you should love each other and help each other, instead of hurting each other and falling into right or wrong quarrel because you are the children of the universe and you are one family.
你们可以伤害师父，师父会原谅你所有的过失和罪过。但不要彼此伤害。
You may hurt Master and I will forgive all of your faults and sin, but you don’t hurt each other.
你们可以攻击师父，师父会原谅你所有的过失和罪过。但不要彼此攻击。
You may attack Master and I will forgive all of your faults and sin, but you don’t attack each other.
你们可以诽谤师父，师父会原谅你所有的过失和罪过。但不要彼此诽谤。
You may slander Master and I will forgive all of your faults and sin, but you don’t slander each other.
太多的魔子魔孙邪恶势力想尽一切办法瓦解我们。
Too many demons’ descendants and the evil forces try every way to disintegrate us.
太多的魔子魔孙邪恶势力想尽一切办法动摇我们。
Too many demons’ descendants and the evil forces try every way to shake us.
太多的魔子魔孙邪恶势力想尽一切办法干扰我们。
Too many demons’ descendants and the evil forces try every way to disturb us.
你们每一个人都是魔子魔孙邪恶力量瓦解的对象。
Each of you is the target which demons’ descendants and the evil forces try to disintegrate.
你们每一个人都是魔子魔孙邪恶力量干扰的对象。
Each of you is the target which demons’ descendants and the evil forces try to disturb.
你们每一个人都是魔子魔孙邪恶力量动摇的对象。
Each of you is the target which demons’ descendants and the evil forces try to shake.
堡垒最容易从内部攻破。
The easiest way to capture a fortress is from within.
师父无条件的信任你们，你们也要相互信任。
Master trusts you unconditionally and you should trust each other.
师父无条件的包容你们，你们也要相互包容。
Master tolerates you unconditionally and mutual tolerance among you is also needed.
师父无条件的关爱你们，你们也要相互关爱。
Master loves and cares about you unconditionally and you should love and care each other.
师父无条件的加持你们，你们也要相互支持。
Master blesses you unconditionally and you should support each other.
弟子们，你们要停止相互之间的不信任。
Disciples do stop distrusting each other.
弟子们，你们要停止相互之间的不包容。
Disciples do stop not tolerating each other.
弟子们，你们要停止相互之间的不支持。
Disciples do stop not supporting each other.
弟子们，你们要停止相互之间的不偕同。
Disciples do stop not disaccording with each other.
否则，师父离开你们的时候，你们又会陷入漫漫长夜。
Otherwise, when Master leaves, you will fall into the endless night.
否则，师父离开你们的时候，你们犹如孤儿无依无靠。
Otherwise, when Master leaves, you are just like helpless orphans.
每一个弟子在师父心中眼中都是平等的。
Every disciple in Master’s heart and eyes is equal.
每一个弟子在师父心中眼中都是一样的。
Every disciple in Master’s heart and eyes is the same.
每一个弟子在师父心中眼中都是亲人家人。
Every disciple in Master’s heart and eyes is relative and family.
每一个弟子在师父心中眼中都是掌上明珠。
Every disciple in Master’s heart and eyes is a pearl in the palm.
每一个弟子在师父心中眼中都是万分珍贵。
Every disciple in Master’s heart and eyes is extremely precious.
每一个弟子在师父心中眼中都是师父生命的一部分。
Every disciple in Master’s heart and eyes is a part of my life.
每一个弟子在师父心中眼中都是师父身体的一部分。
Every disciple in Master’s heart and eyes is a part of my body.
是的师父和你们是平等的。
Yes, you and Master are equal.
是的师父和你们是一体的。
Yes, you and Master are one body.
是的师父和你们是不二的。
Yes, you and Master are non-dual.
师父深爱你们，因为你们和师父都是宇宙总体的一部分。
Master loves you deeply because you and Master are a part of the whole universe.
你们应该深爱彼此，因为你们彼此都是宇宙总体的一部分。
You should love each other deeply because each of you is a part of the whole universe.
心相连 手相牵 爱彼此 亲无间 同回归 极乐天
Heart to heart
Hand in hand
Love each other
Be closely intimate toward each other
Returning together to the ultimate bliss heaven
师父时刻祝福你们！
Master blesses you at any time!
Do you want to know that 2012 is the end of the world? Maybe it can help you```
1.http://ocindy-lydia.blogspot.com/
Do you want open your third eye? Look this cosmic paintings .it can help you```
2.http://ocindy.blogspot.com/
Chinese look this blog，Maybe it can help you```
3.http://nora-wwwmyblog.blogspot.com/
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Brice Arlington and Joretta Arlington attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Drew Altizer Photography)
Kazan, Tatarstan
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF TATARSTAN
20 December, 2008
The Tatar people have already spent 456 years in slavery to Russian colonialism, which was as brutal as ever was known in the history of humankind. During this time many rulers of Russia came to power, as czars, emperors, first secretaries and presidents. Also, the social structure of this country changed: feudalism, capitalism, socialism, etc. Only one thing remained unchanged during all this time: a policy of forced conversion to Christianity, Russification, inhuman exploitation and physical elimination of the Tatar through permanent and goal-oriented genocide. At the beginning of the 18th century, according to a Census taken by Peter the Great, there were 5.5 million Russians and 5.5 million Tatars, and yet by the end of the 20th century there are 120 million Russians and the same 5.5 million Tatars.
At the end of the 1990s, Tatars in their final despair rose up to struggle with Russian colonialism and adopted a Declaration of Tatar State Sovereignty. They organized a referendum with supervision of foreign observers, including some form the USA, during which 61.4% of Tatarstan's population approved a claim for independence from Russia. Moreover, Tatarstan refused to participate in the referendum on the modern Constitution of Russia and to sign the Federative Agreement on the creation of the Russian Federation, confirming by this its illegitimacy. There are not any legal treaties whatsoever on the joining of the later to the Russian Federation.
The first president of Russia B. Yeltsin agreed to give to the Tatars as much liberty as they could handle. Unfortunately, this was the same kind of deceit as before, aimed only at pacifying Tatars and buying time. Whereas Russia was forced to agree to the escape of 14 colonies from their domination, it categorically refused to recognize the independence of Tatarstan, and it made its rule over this colony more severe, by the destruction of elementary rights of its people, including the right to have local legislative bodies and to select the president of Tatarstan. Right now, the Kremlin is appointing its Vice Roy from Moscow. Moreover, the Kremlin has deprived Tatars of the right to use the Latin alphabet as their own and has forced them to use the Cyrillic alphabet which is entirely unsuitable for the Tatar language. Recently it has deprived the Tatars of the opportunity to teach their children in Tatar.
Muslim Tatars are subject to severe prosecution, torture and many years of prison for refusal to worship in the mosques that are under the supervision of mullahs appointed by the Vice Roy administration, and for having Muslim books written in Arabic in their homes. At the same time the merciless robbery of the national resources of Tatarstan is continuing. The Kremlin is taking 85% of all the revenues from the sale of Tatarstan's oil for itself, and by this way depriving Tatarstan of their vital means for survival.
All of this is happening at the same time that the Russian Federation cynically and hypocritically recognized the independence of the Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. One can only ask what is the difference between the rights of the aforementioned republics and Tatarstan - a Russian colony? It is absolutely clear - there is no difference. The truth is that Russia practically enslaved the people of these republics by converting them into their citizens. Consequently, for Tatars there is no hope any more for the good will of the Russian colonizers to accomplish any kind of decolonization whatsoever.
Expressing the will of the Tatar People and in order to save them from entire elimination the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) of the Tatar People is:
1. Declaring support for the Declaration of State Sovereignty of August 30, 1990 and confirming the illegitimacy of including the Republic of Tatarstan into the Russian Federation without its consent.
2. Asking all governments and the United Nations to recognize the Independence of Tatarstan.
3. Creating the Government of Tatarstan in Exile for the protection of the interests of the Tatar People.
4. Calling all Tatars around the world to organize a permanent mass campaign in support of the Independence of Tatarstan before their governments and societies.
Adopted at a Special Meeting of the Milli Mejlis of the Tatar People on December 20, 2008.
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 22JAN16 - Andrew Moore, Dean, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, gestures during the open forum session 'Life in 2030: Humankind and the Machine' at the Annual Meeting 2016 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2016.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Michele Limina
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Lloyd Dean and San Francisco Mayor London Breed attend Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
For the first few hundred thousand years humankind knew exactly where food came from. There was a close relationship between hunter and prey, gatherer and bounty, farmer and harvest. But somehow, in the last few decades, humankind just lost it. Beyond the fact that milk may contain more growth hormones than certain baseball players (looking at you big headed Barry Bonds) and genetically modified veggies may be insect-lettuce hybrids, it is simply difficult to fall in love with food when you don’t know its origin.
Mosquitoes... Writing my earlier description of the Aedes albopictus photo, I wondered whether mosquitoes can be called 'carnivorous'. They do love to feast on humankind's largest organ: Blood.
Walking to the little but very pretty Japanese Garden on Jalan Raja Di Hilir (formerly Tambun Road) in Ipoh this morning, I saw this pastel-beauty in a ditchy, shady stretch. It's a so-called Fetid Passionflower, reeking rather badly of septic tank if the foliage is damaged or broken. In fact, this is the fetid or putrid smell exuded, too, by the breeding places of those clean-looking and quite beautiful Tiger Mosquitoes. Moreover, this particular Passionflower is known to be 'proto-carnivorous'. You can just see the green bracts on this photo. They are sticky and trap small insects. What the exact funtion of this is, is - as far as I know - as yet unclear. It had rained hard in the night and the petals are shot through with moisture...
The Tambun Road leads to caves near Ipoh in which some forty years ago rock paintings were discovered which date back to neolithic people perhaps 4000 years ago. Apparently carnivorous hunters, they depicted their prey on the limestone walls, e.g. deer.
Such a morning of coincidence... Maybe I should have put T.S. Eliot's description into practice: on Sunday mornings we stay at home and read the newspapers... But I'd already been through mine. No, even in this context I won't refer to the background of the name 'Passionflower'.
shot at the entrance to an exhibit
"Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World"
National Museum Of The American Indian -
NMAI on the National Mall, Washington, DC
Our Universes focuses on indigenous cosmologies—
worldviews and philosophies related to the creation
and order of the universe—and the spiritual relationship
between humankind and the natural world.
There are myths about how the light came to be ... this is one of them :sun:
Raven Steals The Sun
In the beginning, Raven was born out of the darkness. There was no moon or stars at night. Raven was the most powerful being. He made all of the animals, fish, trees, and men. He had made all living creatures. But they were all living in darkness making it very difficult for anyone to hunt or fish or gather berries for food.
One day Raven learned that there was a chief living on the banks of the river who had a very wonderful daughter who possessed the sun, the moon, and the stars in carved cedar boxes. The chief guarded her and the treasure well.
Raven knew that he must trick the villagers to steal their treasure, so he decided to turn himself into a grandchild of the great chief. Raven flew up on a tall tree over their house and turned himself into a hemlock needle. Then, as the needle, he fell into the daughter's drinking cup and when she filled it with water, she drank the needle. Inside the chief's daughter, Raven became a baby and the young woman bore a son who was dearly loved by the chief and was given whatever he asked for.
Both father and daughter were delighted with their new addition and played with him for hours on end. As the child explored his new surroundings he soon determined that the light must be kept in the big box in the corner. When he first tried to open the box, his grandfather scolded him profusely which in turn started a crying and squawking fit the likes of which the old man had never seen. As grandfathers have done since the beginning of time he caved in and gave the child the biggest box to play with. This brought peace to the hut for a brief time but it wasn't long until the child pulled his scam again, and again, and again until finally only one box remained.
After much coaxing and wailing the old man at last agreed to let the child play with the light for only a moment. As he tossed the ball of light the child transformed into the Raven and snatching the light in his beak, flew through the smokehole and up into the sky.
Raven was so caught up in all the excitement of the newly revealed world that he nearly didn't see the Eagle bearing down on him. Swerving sharply to escape the outstretched talons, he dropped nearly half of the ball of light which fell to the earth. Shattering into one large and many small pieces on the rocky ground the bits of light bounced back up into the heavens where they remain to this day as the moon and the stars.
Once he was far away from the village, he heard people speaking in the darkness and approached them.
"Who are you and would you like to have light?" he asked them. They said that he was a liar and that no one could give light. To show them that he was telling the truth, Raven opened the ornately carved box and let sunlight into the world. The people were so frightened by it that they fled to every corner of the world. This is why there is Raven's people everywhere.
The world was instantly changed forever. Mountains sprang into the bright sky and reflections danced on the rivers and oceans. Far away, the Eagle was awakened and launched skyward - his target now clearly in sight. And so was the Raven changed – his snow-white feathers never became white again after they were blackened by the smoke from the fire of holding the sun in his mouth.
Now there are stars, the moon and daylight, and it is no longer dark all of the time.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Barbara Pelletreau and Mary Tyren attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
— T.S. Eliot
5200 x 5200 pixel image designed to work as wallpaper on most iOS devices.
Typeface: Filosofia
Merchandise available: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/38667533
"New Views of Humankind" is the title of the main exhibition in the new Ars Electronica Center. Here you can see the "BioLab" where you can clone flowers or test microscopes.
credit: rubra
The butterfly has a message for humankind: "You really should have stopped decades ago. The future is now out of humankind's hands. The human species hasn't had any direct experience of precisely how dangerous a planet the Earth is but the species will learn this lesson soon. This civilization which humankind has built with such pride won't survive and humankind will soon follow its global technological civilization to nonexistence. But this isn't the end. The Universe will continue along without humankind for trillions of years."
As the world heats up and water grows scarce, threatening the productivity of humankind’s preferred crops, breeder Marcela Carvalho Andrade and her colleagues at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are working to toughen maize, drawing resilience traits from landraces, the forerunners of modern maize.
For decades, scientists have sought to utilize the hardiness of maize landraces, which evolved over millennia of farmer selection for adaptation to diverse and sometimes harsh local settings in Mexico, Central and South America.
But crossing elite varieties with landraces brings along wild traits that are difficult and costly to purge, including lower grain yields, excessive tallness or a tendency to fall over in strong winds. For this and for their genetic complexity, landraces are seldom used directly in breeding programs, according to Andrade.
To continue reading this story, click below:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Amy Blayney and Ron Collins attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Debbie Melfi, Mitch Melfi, Myra Ruttenberg and Monetta White attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 22JAN16 - Nita A. Farahany, Professor, Law and Philosophy, Duke University, USA, speaks during the open forum session 'Life in 2030: Humankind and the Machine' at the Annual Meeting 2016 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2016.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Michele Limina
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Brenda Wright attends CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Drew Altizer)
Edinburgh, the inspiring capital of Scotland, where centuries of history meet a vibrant, cosmopolitan city in an unforgettable setting which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind. "Edinburgh Old and New Towns" were together inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1996. The former includes the medieval Royal Mile which runs from Edinburgh Castle to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, and is bordered to the north by the neo-classical 18th century "New Town" which includes Princes Street. It is managed by the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust.
EDINBURGH
Guided sightseeing, visit Edinburgh Castle
Scotland. In the capital city of Edinburgh, guided sightseeing includes a visit to the castle to admire Scotland’s Crown Jewels.
Morning city sightseeing with a local expert introduces you to the 200 year old New Town and famous scientists, inventors, and novelists.
In the Old Town drive up the narrow Royal Mile to Edinburgh Castle to admire Scotland's Crown Jewels,
A small specialty treat will add to your stay in the Scottish Capital, the afternoon is free to enjoy the Scottish Capital at your own pace, Later, a unique optional excursion: board the former Royal Yacht Britannia , and enjoy dinner at a local restaurant.
For more information on visiting Scotland visit:
Ryan Janek Wolowski grandfather Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Ryan Janek Wolowski grandmother Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Globus Travel
Essential Britain & Ireland Tour
October 21st 2013 thru November 1st 2013
Ten day tour visiting five countries
England
Wales
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Scotland
www.globusjourneys.com/Product.aspx?trip=4GB
For more on Globus Travel
866-755-8581
Photo
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK United Kingdom on the island of Great Britain in Northern Europe.
10/28/2013
For the first few hundred thousand years humankind knew exactly where food came from. There was a close relationship between hunter and prey, gatherer and bounty, farmer and harvest. But somehow, in the last few decades, humankind just lost it. Beyond the fact that milk may contain more growth hormones than certain baseball players (looking at you big headed Barry Bonds) and genetically modified veggies may be insect-lettuce hybrids, it is simply difficult to fall in love with food when you don’t know its origin.
Rock Formations & Flora (Xerophyta retinervis) at the "Cradle of Humankind" (a World Heritage Site in Kromdraai, Gauteng, South Africa). Spotted Aloes (Aloe greatheadii var. davyana) and Proteas (Sugar Bush) are scattered throughout the grasslands.
"Mrs. Ples" (Australopithecus africanus) was found in this area in 1947, and is currently the oldest human fossil found to date. This gave rise to the idea that Africa is the "Cradle of Humankind".
In 2008 two fossilised skeletons of a new species of early human "Australopithecus sediba" were discovered.
Winter, June 2007.
Best viewed LARGE.
Martin
-
Administrator of:
All things beautiful in Nature Group
Planet Earth Needs your Help. If you are interested in saving the planet for our feathered friends, wild flowers, wild animals and nature areas, as well as humankind follow the links below to articles I and my girlfriend have published. Each article explains in mostly layman terms what scientist are observing and forecasting about climate change as well as offering things an individual can do to help reduce global warming.
Latest Article
Texas storm a wake up call for a worst case climate disaster?
planetearthneedsyou.blogspot.com/2021/02/texas-storm-wake...
All Previous Articles
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Lloyd Dean, Suzanne Dean, Sabrina Shannon, Carol Keehan and Kevin Lofton attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Alexandra Malek for Drew Altizer Photography)
For the first few hundred thousand years humankind knew exactly where food came from. There was a close relationship between hunter and prey, gatherer and bounty, farmer and harvest. But somehow, in the last few decades, humankind just lost it. Beyond the fact that milk may contain more growth hormones than certain baseball players (looking at you big headed Barry Bonds) and genetically modified veggies may be insect-lettuce hybrids, it is simply difficult to fall in love with food when you don’t know its origin.