Meditation
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Once you turn inward, meditation has started. Meditation means the capacity to be joyously alone, the capacity to be happy with yourself, the capacity to keep company with yourself. To be with yourself is meditation.
Meditation is emptying yourself of all content. When there is no thought moving inside you there is stillness; that stillness is meditation. Not even a ripple arises in the lake of your consciousness; that silent lake, absolutely still, that is meditation.
-- Osho
28:52 - Photograph something you’ve been looking at or walking past for a long time, but which you’ve never photographed before.
Just off a busy shopping street in North Vancouver is a small park that I've driven and walked past so many times and always wanted to take a look. So yesterday, between rain showers, I went to the park with my camera. This is a meditation circle in which people sit on the ground and meditate, with the bright red statues of monks in a circle. I thought the red was too glaring for portraying the peaceful feeling of meditation, so converted it to mono.
Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (centro di buddhismo tibetano) - Pomaia - Toscana
"" Ci sono solo due giorni all’anno in cui non puoi fare niente: uno si chiama ieri, l’altro si chiama domani, perciò oggi è il giorno giusto per amare, credere, fare e, principalmente, vivere. ""
Tenzin Gyatso - Dalai Lama
Immerso nel verde delle colline toscane, precisamente a Pomaia, frazione del Comune di Santa Luce, in provincia di Pisa, si trova l’Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, uno dei centri per lo studio e la pratica del buddhismo più importante d’Europa.
La Statua di Cenresig fu inagurata daL Dalai Lama nel Giugno 2014. la statua più alta d’Europa di Cenresig (in tibetano) / Avalokiteshvara (in sanscrito), il Buddha della compassione, di cui si ritiene che i Dalai Lama siano la manifestazione terrena.
Ha una storia molto particolare: fu realizzata dallo scenografo Dante Ferretti per il film di Martin Scorsese “Kundun”; una volta finite le riprese il set fu demolito, ma la statua si è salvata, e dopo aver viaggiato dal Marocco in Italia, è arrivata qui, dove lo scultore Alessio Pazzini e il suo staff l’hanno restaurata per farla aderire ai precisi canoni iconografici buddhisti.
In quest’oasi di pace convivono monaci e laici, per lo più volontari e studenti che seguono corsi di filosofia, psicologia e meditazione, ma è aperto a chiunque voglia trascorrere un periodo, o anche solo qualche ora, lontano dal caos cittadino, circondato dalla natura, respirando aria buona e dove anziché le notifiche dei cellulari si sentono gli uccellini cinguettare.
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Lama Tzong Khapa Institute (center of Tibetan Buddhism) - Pomaia - Tuscan - Italy
"" There are only two days a year when you can't do anything: one is called yesterday, the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and, above all, live. ""
Tenzin Gyatso- Dalai Lama
Nestled in the green Tuscan hills, precisely in Pomaia, part of the Municipality of Santa Luce, in the province of Pisa, is the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, one of the most important centers for the study and practice of Buddhism in Europe.
The Statue of Cenresig was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in June 2014. The tallest statue in Europe of Cenresig (in Tibetan) / Avalokiteshvara (in Sanskrit), the Buddha of compassion, of which it is believed that the Dalai Lamas are the earthly manifestation .
It has a very special history: it was created by set designer Dante Ferretti for Martin Scorsese's film "Kundun"; once the shooting was finished the set was demolished, but the statue was saved, and after traveling from Morocco to Italy, arrived here, where sculptor Alessio Pazzini and his staff restored it to make it adhere to the precise iconographic canons Buddhists.
In this haven of peace monks and lay people live together, mostly volunteers and students who follow courses in philosophy, psychology and meditation, but it is open to anyone who wants to spend a period, or even just a few hours, away from the chaos of the city, surrounded by the nature, breathing good air and where instead of cell phone notifications birds are heard chirping.
If your heart is sad
Give him the seed
New hopes.
Search deep inside you
And you will discover wonders,
A part that you forgot. Take the time to look at your life.
Go to the garden of your soul
and if you can't achieve your desires,
You have hope that one day
You have other joys.
If the rain floods your face
And hide your tears
Tell yourself the sun will dry them out.
Smile for life,
Because if today nothing goes,
He remains tomorrow.
Advance on the path of life
Because at the end you will see
Inscribed in the sky
In letters of fire,
The word HOPE.
48:52 Water motion
I took this at Nitobe Gardens, where I took the image "Where the Magic Happens." This is the reflection in the pool, and I flung my camera up and down for a bit of ICM....
Not able to make order inside, she tries her best to keep focused her mind somewhere else ...
at ... Sous le ciel de Paris