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Learning To Love You More Assignment #27: Take a picture of the sun. by Stephanie Ognar

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learning Chinese, starting from scratch... by RwoBwo

These are my nine pages of Chinese practice. I've done them on my own with the help of my "tutor." Each page has 250 squares, which makes over 2000 squares I've done.

learning soft water by GollyGforce - Living My Worst Nightmare

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Learning Neighbourhood 2011 by marragem

The learning space for the 2011 2M Gems.

learning to ride by Carpe Feline

walking down an alleyway behind some apartments we came across this man teaching his wife how to ride a bicycle. He was doing all the work as she couldn't go straight or stay upright unless he held on the back of the bicycle and ran along with her. He was her set of "training wheels"

Learning Garden 2013 by Lane CC Archives

Learning Garden 2013

Learning Center Preschool by Mundelein Park & Recreation District

Thanksgiving prep

Rolex Learning Centre by Clara Molero

Iluminatti... jajajja

WSA Global Congress 2019 Cascais by World Summit Award

The WSA Global Congress Cascais focusses on the part that digital innovation plays in creating sustainable social change and impact world-wide. Featuring the 40 global winners in the 8 WSA categories and the WSA Young Innovators, it will connect them with international thought-leaders, ICT experts and local stakeholders to enable a sustainable and transformative knowledge transfer, this event offers you a unique learning journey!

Credits. Photographer - Philipp Benedikt

Learning Support by Moulsford Preparatory School

Learning a dance by learn-serve.org

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Margie (blue top) learning a dance with Santa Ana youth leaders (06.06.23)

See our blog for more information about LearnServe Paraguay 2006.

Learning Wheel session by nhaima

Learning & Lifestyle Gladstone by endeavour foundation

EFI Gladstone Supported Employees Thomas Lamberton (with sticker), Nathan Walker, Daniel Jessen,Kendall Macbeath (front) at Learning & Lifestyle Gladstone

learning to cast by Kim Spanulo

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Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall. Psalm 55:22

Learning words by jennifer de ville catalano

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Self-portrait with my baby girl.

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You can see a piece of me (my hand), but my daughter is a huge piece of who I am as well.

She hasn't said any real words yet, but she loves to flip through her board books and babble excitedly. She pulled herself up using the coffee table and insisted on standing for this session of story time.

Learning to Fly by TOKYO COUNTRY BOY

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Cody learned how to ride w/o training wheels yesterday.

Learning is fun by Raphael Surber

Aziza's Place in Phnom Penh

Nepal - Swayambhunath Temple - 103 by Manfred Sommer

Swayambhunath (Devanagari: स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप; Newar: स्वयंभू; sometimes romanized Swoyambhunath) is an ancient religious architecture atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' (Wylie:Phags.pa Shing.kun), for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, Shing.kun may be a corruption of the local Nepal Bhasa name for the complex, Singgu, meaning 'self-sprung'. For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it is second only to Boudhanath.

The Swayambhunath complex consists of a stupa, a variety of shrines and temples, some dating back to the Licchavi period. A Tibetan monastery, museum and library are more recent additions. The stupa has Buddha's eyes and eyebrows painted on. Between them, the number one (in Devanagari script) is painted in the fashion of a nose. There are also shops, restaurants and hostels. The site has two access points: a long stairway with 365 steps, leading directly to the main platform of the temple, which is from the top of the hill to the east; and a car road around the hill from the south leading to the southwest entrance. The first sight on reaching the top of the stairway is the Vajra. Tsultrim Allione describes the experience:

We were breathless and sweating as we stumbled up the last steep steps and practically fell upon the biggest vajra (thunder-bolt scepter) that I have ever seen. Behind this vajra was the vast, round, white dome of the stupa, like a full solid skirt, at the top of which were two giant Buddha eyes wisely looking out over the peaceful valley which was just beginning to come alive.

Much of Swayambhunath's iconography comes from the Vajrayana tradition of Newar Buddhism. However, the complex is also an important site for Buddhists of many schools, and is also revered by Hindus.

MYTHOLOGY

According to Swayambhu Purana, the entire valley was once filled with an enormous lake, out of which grew a lotus. The valley came to be known as Swayambhu, meaning "Self-Created." The name comes from an eternal self-existent flame (svyaṃbhu) over which a sūpa was later built.

Swayambhunath is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple. They are holy because Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom and learning was raising the hill which the Swayambhunath Temple stands on. He was supposed to leave his hair short but he made it grow long and head lice grew. It is said that the head lice transformed into these monkeys.

Manjusri had a vision of the lotus at Swayambhu and traveled there to worship it. Seeing that the valley can be good settlement and to make the site more accessible to human pilgrims, he cut a gorge at Chovar. The water drained out of the lake, leaving the valley in which Kathmandu now lies. The lotus was transformed into a hill and the flower became the Swayambhunath stupa.

HISTORY

Swayambhunath, is among the oldest religious sites in Nepal. According to the Gopālarājavaṃśāvalī Swayambhunath was founded by the great-grandfather of King Mānadeva (464-505 CE), King Vṛsadeva, about the beginning of the 5th century CE. This seems to be confirmed by a damaged stone inscription found at the site, which indicates that King Mānadeva ordered work done in 640 CE.

However, Emperor Ashoka is said to have visited the site in the third century BCE and built a temple on the hill which was later destroyed.

Although the site is considered Buddhist, the place is revered by both Buddhists and Hindus. Numerous Hindu monarch followers are known to have paid their homage to the temple, including Pratap Malla, the powerful king of Kathmandu, who is responsible for the construction of the eastern stairway in the 17th century.

The stupa was completely renovated in May 2010, its first major renovation since 1921 and its 15th in the nearly 1,500 years since it was built. The dome was re-gilded using 20 kg of gold. The renovation was funded by the Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center of California, and began in June 2008.

The temple complex suffered damage in the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

ARCHITECTURE

The stupa consists of a dome at the base, above which is a cubical structure painted with eyes of Buddha looking in all four directions. There are pentagonal Toran present above each of the four sides with statues engraved in them. Behind and above the torana there are thirteen tiers. Above all the tiers there is a small space above which the Gajur is present. The stupa has many artifacts inside it.

SYMBOLISM

The dome at the base represents the entire world. When a person awakes (represented by eyes of wisdom and compassion) from the bonds of the world, the person reaches the state of enlightenment. The thirteen pinnacles on the top symbolize that sentient beings have to go through the thirteen stages of spiritual realizations to reach enlightenment or Buddhahood.

There is a large pair of eyes on each of the four sides of the main stupa which represent Wisdom and Compassion. Above each pair of eyes is another eye, the third eye. It is said that when Buddha preaches, cosmic rays emanate from the third eye which act as messages to heavenly beings, so that those interested can come down to earth to listen to the Buddha. The hellish beings and beings below the human realm cannot come to earth to listen to the Buddha's teaching, however, the cosmic rays relieve their suffering when Buddha preaches.

There are carvings of the Panch Buddhas (five Buddhas) on each of the four sides of stupa. There are also statues of the Buddhas at the base of the stupas. Panch Buddhas are Buddha in metaphorical sense in Tantrayana. They are Vairochana (occupies the center and is the master of the temple), Akshobhya (faces the east and represents the cosmic element of consciousness), Ratna Sambhava (faces the south and represents the cosmic element of sensation), Amitabha (He represents cosmic element of Sanjna (name) and always faces the West) and Amoghsiddhi (He represents the cosmic element of conformation and faces the north).

Each morning before dawn hundreds of Buddhist (Vajrayana) and Hindu pilgrims ascend the 365 steps from eastern side that lead up the hill, passing the gilded Vajra (Tibetan: Dorje) and two lions guarding the entrance, and begin a series of clockwise circumambulations of the stupa.

SWAYAMBHU PURANA

Swayambhu Purana (Devnagari: स्वयम्भू पूराण) is a Buddhist scripture about the origin and development of Kathmandu valley. Swayambhu Purana gives detail of all the Buddhas who came to Kathmandu. It also provides information about the first and the second Buddhas in Buddhism.

WIKIPEDIA

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Speed Learning Languages by Mike Noone

When you are using speed learning or accelerated learning techniques you do so by communicating. Communication is formed from language.

So far so good... Right !

Well maybe. You see it all depends on what the language is that you are learning in...

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2014 Spring Learning Fair

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learning center - SANAA

learning to fly by Nico

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there’s no sensation to compare with this

suspended animation, a state of bliss

can’t keep my mind from the circling sky

tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

Learning Playground by Chattanooga Public Library

NLP & Accelerated Learning by Mike Noone

NLP Accelerated learning is about having the right motivation, the right state and beliefs and the correct tools to learn things really quickly and easily.

When you add your own personal learning style and a few NLP techniques then learning stuff really does get easy. It really is all about learning excellence.

Here’s why I believe that learning how to learn is even more important now than ever.

There is no such thing as a job for life anymore. It is thought that the average school leaver will have between 3 and 5 careers over the course of their working life. It makes sense to be able to retrain as quickly and as easily as possible.

There will be jobs & businesses in the future, that do not currently exist. Those who adapt quickest will be the winners.

If we are now in the Information age that suggests having a lot of new data to keep up with. The ‘innovation curve is about to go vertical.

If you were to create a graph of all the information that has ever existed and started the graph at the year

1 AD it would take until 1500 for the amount of knowledge available to double. It doubled again by 1750 and then 1900. The next doubling of knowledge took a mere 50 years then 10 years and 7 years and finally six years.

This was up until 1973 when there was 128 times more knowledge than in 1 AD according to George Anderia who measured this growth.

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