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Cloudy morning at Torres del Paine, between dead trees, the remaining of a huge forest fire of a few years ago.
Michelangelo 1499
Although the Pietà remained mostly a Franco-German theme, its supreme representation is that completed by Michelangelo in 1499 and housed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Influenced by the northern style, Michelangelo draped the figure of Christ across Mary’s lap. Through this pyramidal design and the details of his figures, Michelangelo created a scene that displayed at once agony, solemnity, and heroic resignation.
Another rare warbird at the Quinte International Airshow is the Firefly, a World War II carrier-borne fighter and anti-submarine aircraft. Only a handful of airworthy Fireflies remain.
Wow wow wow!! 2.5 yrs ago the robin at my old hide had 5 young unfortunately rats were seen killing 2 of the remaining 3 ,2 were leucistic 1 not a lot i called Storm the other an absolute beauty of a bird I called Blizzard.
Well after they had grown they were chased off by their parents and luckily 1 of the little whites went 200 yds to a friend lotty plot for a few weeks but disappeared.
Now my new place is the other side of the ground quite a distance away I have been there since last March and its affectionately know as the paddock hide.
Well yesterday I went down with the dogs and the camera and after an hour who should appear but Blizzard cant tell you how happy I am and to top it all as well as it being almost Christmas today is national robin day you I'm extremely happy to see my old friend (how old do robins live esp when their bright white) and I have a male sparrowhawk on the prowl?
What a delight just like to wish my flickr friends a very Merry Christmas and I really hope old blizzard becomes a regular fixture .
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Five Arches, the only remaining medieval gateway leading inside the seaside town of Tenby, on the western side of Carmarthen Bay, in Pembrokeshire, South Wales.
The Tenby town walls are Grade I listed medieval defensive structures. They are assessed as one of the most important surviving medieval city walls in Britain. The walls were built in the 13th century by the Earls of Pembroke and improved in the 1450s. They were last known to have been repaired in 1588 and have declined thereafter.
There were originally four gates, but the Great or Carmarthen Gate was removed in 1781, the South Gate in 1797 and the Quay Gate in 1811. Only the semi-circular Five Arches Gate survives. Six towers survive, although there may have been up to 24 originally. At one time there were walls connecting the city to Tenby Castle, but they are no longer extant.
The walls are generally built of rubble stone with arrow loops and a crenelated parapet. There is a short stretch west from Upper Frog Street, along White Lion Street to the bastion at the corner of White Lion Street and South Parade and then the most intact portion runs south beside South Parade and St Florence Parade to the sea.
The Marshal family, Earls of Pembroke to 1245, may have started construction of the walls, replacing an earthen rampart of the late 12th century, and they were completed by William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke after Tenby was sacked in 1260 by Llewelyn ap Gruffydd. Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford ordered the walls repaired and improved in 1457. They were raised 5 feet in height and widened to allow the garrison to move about freely. The moat surrounding the town was also widened to a width of 30 feet. The walls were repaired in 1588; there is a tablet on the wall commemorates the work.
Information sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenby_town_walls
www.britainexpress.com/wales/pembrokeshire/properties/ten...
This Orthodox monastery is one of six remaining from the 14th - 16th century that can still be entered. Originally there were 24 but most are now just ruins. Locally known as the Monastic City of Rocks, The Holy Meteora to give it the true name is near Kalambaka in Greece. It's a trip worth making if you're fit enough to climb the many steps. Best viewed large :)) This image has now been made into an on-line jigsaw puzzle, so if that's your thing and you fancy giving it a try you'll find it on www.jigsawexplorer.com
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I remain enchanted by the encounter and have processed several photos from this shoot. This female repeatedly picked up stones from the bottom of the river, examined each as if looking for a gem, and then launched them into the air. She would observe as they splashed to the water’s surface and continued to gaze, following their path back to the river bed. I am as captivated by the activity, as by the prospect of the thoughts going through her head.
One of seven remaining gas holders in West Ham (Newham) but named after the nearby area of Bromley-By-Bow in Tower Hamlets. They are grade II listed.
In July this year, Newham Council granted planning permission for 2,200 new homes to be built on the site, with all seven remaining gasholders to be retained.
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Although hard to see there is a chick in the nest as this parent is trying to get the last of the brood to fledge offering a gopher to do so. In the up-coming post she steps aside and makes a very unusual sound while looking at the chick. It looks up (not visible to me/us) and then assumes his position lying comfortably in the nest. I offer this to show a natural behavioral coaxing to young to leave the nest and learn to fly;. Some are more cautious than others. And, a very high percentage don't need any coaxing at all they simply fall from the nest while testing their wings by grabbing air in the nest feeling their aerodynamics. They just sail to another tree or to the ground half hopping and flying to get to a safe position.
My next post is more obvious what she is doing. She places the gopher on the limb and steps aside for the chick to come out a limb so to say.
A set of SP searchlights remain at CP Eureka, the east end of a junction where the Sunset Route turns east to head into downtown Houston. Amtrak #2, the eastbound Sunset Limited, crosses from Main 1 to Main 2 of the UP Houston Sub, splitting the old signals.
As evidenced by the track panels at right and the crane in the background, the track layout here at the Eureka/Tower 13 complex is being reconfigured, likely meaning that these signals aren't long for this world.
Houston, TX 3/14/2021
Oaks in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, UK. These examples are in the Birklands and Bilhaugh area, which has the highest concentration of remaining veteran oaks in Sherwood Forest.
Simple wooden benches were the best seats on the dock for the G4 geomagnetic storm (aka northern lights) in the early morning hours of April 24, 2023. Spectacular beaming colors danced across the night sky and reflected on the remaining ice of Bass Lake in Price County, WI. Observation tower on Tim's Hill just peeks above the treetops across the lake.
The beautiful Church of St Mary and All Saints at Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire is noted for containing a mausoleum to leading members of the Yorkist dynasty of the Wars of the Roses.
The work on the present church, which sits on a slight hill overlooking the River Nene, was begun by Edward III who also built a college as a cloister on the church's southern side. After completion in around 1430, a parish church of similar style was added to the western end of the collegiate church with work beginning in 1434. It is the parish church which still remains.
The present Grade I-listed church is named in honour of St Mary and All Saints, and has a distinctive tall tower dominating the local skyline. The church is Perpendicular in style and although only the nave, aisles and octagonal tower remain of the original building it is still in the best style of its period. I particularly like the delicate flying buttresses. The church is regarded by Simon Jenkins as one of England's Thousand Best Churches.
The chancel was pulled down after the college was dissolved in 1553 following the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A grammar school was founded in its place which lasted until 1859.
The Templars Chapel is the only remaining vestige of the Templars Commandery - 12th century -
Metz - Lorraine - France
La Chapelle des Templiers est le seul vestige de la Commanderie des Templiers datant du 12ème siècle .
UP's only-remaining manifest that runs on the Moffat runs six days a week. The train alternates west and east every other day, with one day where it doesn't run at all. The train runs from North Yard to Grand Junction and back. Here, the eastbound version has five units on the point. The train is right around 6,000 feet long.
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Cobá is a large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is located about 90 km east of the Maya site of Chichen Itza, about 40 km west of the Caribbean Sea, and 44 km northwest of the site of Tulum, with which it is connected by a modern road.
Nohuch Mul pyramid at Coba.
Coba is estimated to have had some 50,000 inhabitants (and possibly significantly more) at its peak of civilization, and the built up area extends over some 80 km². The site was occupied by a sizable agricultural population by the 1st century. The bulk of Coba's major construction seems to have been made in the middle and late Classic period, about 500 to 900, with most of the dated hieroglypic inscriptions from the 7th century. However Coba remained an important site in the Post-Classic era and new temples were built and old ones kept in repair until at least the 14th century, possibly as late as the arrival of the Spanish.
A few swinging bridges remain in rural Lewis County, Kentucky, crossing over Cabin Creek. The area is one of the first settlements in the Ohio River Valley region. Legend has it that the Shawnee Indiana and settlers on flatboats met on one of islands on the Ohio River. The settlers traveled down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were trying to find the huge cane fields with their buffalo trails that Daniel Boone spoke of. Miscommunications led the settlers to Cabin Creek where they settled. Actually they were supposed to go further down the Ohio River to Limestone Creek at present day Maysville, Kentucky. A short time later another group of settlers went up Limestone Creek and settled in the cane fields and founded Washington, Kentucky. That area has a huge flat area with many large successful farms to this day. The Cabin Creek area is rocky and hilly and home to a number of small struggling farms. Lewis County is in Appalachia and one of poorest counties in Kentucky. Washington is in Mason County and remains a very historical area surrounded by successful farms.
Clapham Common Underground Station has the virtue of being one of London's few remaining island-platform stations, with trains travelling in both directions on both sides of a single platform. Standing between two moving trains can be an alarming but exhilarating experience, and it was this sense of energy and propulsion that I was hoping to convey in this image.
Besides the challenge of capturing two trains crossing through the station at the same time and at the same speed, the challenges to realising the image were capturing a busy platform when it was empty, having a high level of control and balance when editing individual portions of the platform, and the fact that an extended shutter speed to capture blurred trains was inevitably going to blow out highlights from the station's overhead lighting. With all of this in mind, the final product was edited by blending several separate exposures.
I began by capturing the platform empty a few minutes after the station opened in the morning, later using luminosity masks in Photoshop to blend multiple exposures for a balanced finish. I then continued photographing for over an hour, capturing trains at various shutter speeds as they pulled into and out of the station, eventually settling on three- and four-second shutter speeds to blur the trains. At the editing stage, I used the pen-tool to select the two tracks on the platform and masked in the trains which I'd captured travelling at similar speeds and with near-identical levels of luminance and saturation.
The challenge after that was restoring the rich reds of the train doors and the blues along the carriage undersides, as the speed at which the trains were travelling blended these into a blurry magenta, meaning both trains needed additional colour-grading in order to restore their primary colours. Having the trains on separate layers was a benefit as it meant I could edit the trains and the platform independently, bringing out the subtle grit and cooler muted tones along the platform without affecting the smooth and vibrant motion of the trains. For me, this contrast between the detail in the platform and the dizzying blur of the trains is what gives the image its impact, and hopefully what evokes a sense of what it's like to be standing on a platform between two moving trains.
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Sunlight getting to work on Parkhouse and Chrome Hills. I was worried that the bank of cloud drifting in from the west was going to scupper the sunrise colours but I was lucky that it remained clear for a while
The only remaining flying Avro Vulcan escorted by the Red Arrows at Dawlish Carnival Airshow yesterday.
After 14 years and a £7 million rebuild by the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, the Vulcan, a classic part of British aviation and industry, took to the skies again in October 2007 and returned to the airshow circuit in June 2008. This flypast with the Red Arrows at Dawlish was apparently their first together since it was decomissioned. (See: www.vulcantothesky.org/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan_XH558.)
See my other Dawlish Carnival Airshow 2009 photos.
See everyone's Dawlish Carnival Airshow 2009 photos.
See my other Red Arrows photos.
One of the few remaining species of endemic honeycreepers on the island of Oahu, the ‘amakihi still thrives in higher elevation rainforests. Recent census indicates the population is stable or increasing due to resistance to mosquito transmitted avian malaria, adaptability to feed on nonindigenous food sources, and capacity to become habituated to human presence. Often observed using its decurved bill to feed on the nectar of ‘ohi’a lehua, this male was probing bark and buds for small insects, a protein source during breeding. The Oahu ‘amakihi is one of three endemic species of ‘amakihi in the main Hawaiian Islands, a result of insular evolution. In the state of Hawaii, 2024 is Ka Makahiki o Nā Manu Nahele: The Year of the Forest Birds.
Himeji Castle is a hilltop Japanese castle complex located in Himeji, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
The castle is regarded as the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture, comprising a network of 83 buildings with advanced defensive systems from the feudal period. The castle is frequently known as Hakuro-jō ("White Egret Castle") or Shirasagi-jō ("White Heron Castle") because of its brilliant white exterior and supposed resemblance to a bird taking flight.
Himeji Castle dates to 1333, when Akamatsu Norimura built a fort on top of Himeyama hill. The fort was dismantled and rebuilt as Himeyama Castle in 1346, and then remodeled into Himeji Castle two centuries later. Himeji Castle was then significantly remodeled in 1581 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who added a three-story castle keep. In 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu awarded the castle to Ikeda Terumasa for his help in the Battle of Sekigahara, and Ikeda completely rebuilt the castle from 1601 to 1609, expanding it into a large castle complex.
Several buildings were later added to the castle complex by Honda Tadamasa from 1617 to 1618. For over 400 years, Himeji Castle has remained intact, even throughout the extensive bombing of Himeji in World War II, and natural disasters such as the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake.
Himeji Castle is the largest and most visited castle in Japan, and it was registered in 1993 as one of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the country. The area within the middle moat of the castle complex is a designated Special Historic Site and five structures of the castle are also designated National Treasures. Along with Matsumoto Castle and Kumamoto Castle, Himeji Castle is considered one of Japan's three premier castles. In order to preserve the castle buildings, it underwent restoration work for several years and reopened to the public on March 27, 2015. The works also removed decades of dirt and grime, restoring the formerly gray roof to its original brilliant white color.
As I put up this photo there is a hard rain steadily falling and all is grey .. obstinate leaves have few remaining strongholds that will fall within the week. Not terribly cold (44*F) .. but though a new mirror in my camera is calling for exercise I cannot raise desire to plunge into the wet ... I am grateful for the sure dependable seasons .... All things in the Lords time.
Fragment of old buildings associated with the former weaving industry.
Photo taken in Zgierz - the satellite city of Łódź.
Inchkeith, basking in the last hour of the short December day, viewed from Portobello Promenade. Sun very low in the sky as we approach the Winter Solstice, so even on a clear day like this it's so low the light quality is stretched out to this warm, honeyed copper tone, which is just beautiful
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur_Mountain_(Alberta)
ELEVATION 2281 m 7486 ft
Sulphur Mountain (Nakoda: Mînî Rhuwîn) is a mountain in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains overlooking the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The mountain was named in 1916 for the hot springs on its lower slopes. George Dawson had referred to this landform as Terrace Mountain on his 1886 map of the area. Sanson's Peak was named in 1948 for Norman Bethune Sanson who diligently attended the observatory recording equipment atop Sulphur Mountain for nearly 30 years.
Two hot springs have been commercially developed. The lowest is the Cave and Basin National Historic Site and the highest is the Banff Upper Hot Springs.
A gondola on the eastern slope goes to the summit ridge which has an upper terminal containing three restaurants, a gift shop, and multiple observation decks. The summit ridge provides views both westward up and east down the Bow Valley. A boardwalk can be followed on the north side to the top of Sanson's Peak (2,256 m or 7,402 ft).
The original, and more scenic, summit access is along an old fire road (Sanson Road) on the Southwest face of the mountain with a distance of 5.8 km from the Banff Sundance Canyon trail system near the Bow River. Another 5.4 km switchback trail route exists under the gondola with trailhead access from the Banff Hot Springs parking lot near the gondola terminal.
The mountain has been the site of two research facilities. In 1903, a meteorological observatory building was completed atop Sanson Peak. This building still exists and visitors can look through a window to see its interior complete with rustic furnishings. In the winter of 1956-57, the National Research Council built a small laboratory on Sanson's Peak in order to study cosmic rays as part of Canada's contribution to the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station remained in operation until 1978 and the building was removed in 1981. A plaque now marks the site's location.
The hot springs at the base of Sulphur Mountain are home to the endangered Banff Springs snail and the now-extinct Banff longnose dace.
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After almost a week of vicious fighting through the icy ruins, the clanker command decided to pull out its remaining forces and surrender the port.
As soon as the droid forces retreated into their base in the cave systems to the north we all finally had some time to rest up and regroup. Everyone except for the ARF elements that is.
While the rest of the 253rd legion got to resupply and rest within the city ruins, my recon group was sent back out into the frigid cold to look for any pockets of remaining droids.
Bolt and I got sent to the eastern outskirts of the city. This sector of the city had been evacuated by the droids first and hadn't seen activity in two days. We didn't expect to find much.
[CL-8675]Jockey: See anything from up there?
[CT-2255]Bolt: Nothin but ice. Just a giant flat plain of ice. Ice over there. Ice over here. Ice on the ground. Ice on my armour. Ice...
Jockey: Ok. Shut up. I get it, there's lots of ice. Any activity on that ice?
Bolt: Looks like a storm is picking up several clicks to the east. That's it.
Jockey: Ill inform command about that.
Jockey on comm: Come in command this is CL-8675 reporting from recon patrol 14. Over.
Command: We read you CL-8675. What's your patrol's status?
Jockey: We've completed our sweep of the sector. Not detecting any functional droids nor any forms of life in the vicinity. Sector secure. However, we are picking up a storm about 11 clicks east-northeast of our position. Over.
Command: Well take a look at that. Your patrol is free to return to base. Over.
Jockey: Alright Bolt, let's get out of here.
Bolt: Don't have to tell me twice. The damn quartermaster division couldn't even equip us with the right gear. The ice crystals are starting to build up on my visor.
Jockey: Bolt, I swear if you say ice one more time I'm going to ship you back to Kamino on janitorial duties.
Bolt: Loud and clear lieutenant. Loud and clear.
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For the 253 legion thing. I've always liked Rhen Var. S/O to all them Battlefront 1 players!!!
Lost in Thoughts
My Interplanetary Memories
Interplanetary Travel
My memories of the world still remain in my memory. Every time I close my eyes, I think more and more of the past. It's like I live in two worlds. While I was awake, spending time on the planets I had just discovered in the infinite space, when I closed my eyes, I found myself in my dream world. My dream world was now my second living space. In this way, I had two different lives between two worlds. I needed both lives. The two worlds I lived in were quite different from each other. In the face of this situation, after a long time, I started to feel like I was stuck between two worlds. I was starting to feel like I had to make a choice. It was a choice I had to make between two worlds. Would I live in the real world for the rest of my life? Or would I continue to live in my dream world that I had been fantasizing about? This question started to bother me a lot. I found myself in a deep void. There was no one around to help me. I was alone in this huge vacuum of space. I thought a lot to find the answer to my question. I thought about the past and the future. But this didn't help me much. Thinking about the past and the future made me ask myself more questions. Unanswered questions abounded. A huge pile of questions arose in my mind. Lots of questions to be answered. I still don't know why I did this to myself. Maybe I should just let time pass. As long as life goes on, one gets somewhere. However, there was one more problem. Time was a meaningless concept in space and imagination. It was the very concept of time that put me in this mental state that I had a hard time getting out of. However, time was something that didn't exist. I almost brought myself to the brink of extinction for something that didn't exist. How could I overcome something that didn't exist? How could I find myself again in all this mess? How could I reach the end of this deep journey that I set out to find myself? Questions, questions, questions... Questions that I couldn't answer, and that my mind insisted upon.
And today, I opened my eyes to a new day where I will look for answers to the questions my mind asks me. And again, we will see if I leave behind another day when I cannot answer all these questions.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
This magnificent Japanese Garden which is located in Clingendael Park in The Hague and Due to its fragility, the garden can be visited only during a short period of the year, from end of April to mid June. The vibrant colors and the Intoxicating aromas of the flowers make the visit an unforgettable experience not to be missed.
The Japanese Garden was created in the beginning of the 20th century by the former owner of the country estate of Clingendael, Marguérite M. Baroness van Brienen (1871-1939), also called Lady Daisy. Lady Daisy sailed off a number of times by ship to Japan and brought back to the Netherlands a number of lanterns, a water cask, sculptures, the pavilion, the little bridges and several plants.
The original design with the serene pond, meandering brook and the winding pathways has remained intact all these years.
The Municipality of The Hague has always taken great care of the Japanese Garden because of its uniqueness and tremendous historical value. The garden was placed on the list of national historical monuments in 2001.
One of the several remaining lift bridges left on the Hennepin Canal in Northern Illinois.Originally conceived in 1831,the canal did not open until 1907.By then railroads were beginning to proliferate and barges were getting bigger,which made the narrow canal almost obsolete by the time it opened. It closed in the early 1950's and later became the largest state park in Illinois.It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Some of the architects who later designed the Panama Canal helped build the Hennepin Canal.
More on the canal and its history here:
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[...] The phrase "empty" is already a negation of itself, but one can not remain silent. The problem is to inform the silence, without leaving it. For this reason Zen avoids it as much as possible to take refuge in the language, and tries to make us penetrate behind the words that we speak - what is there - dig. Meister Eckhart does unstinting in his sermons.
He selects a few harmless words from the Bible and makes them a "home affairs" show that he experiences in his subconscious mind.
His idea is not in the words themselves, he turns them into instruments of his own intention.
Similarly, works with the Zen master of some things around him, including his own person, any trees, stones, sticks, etc He may then scream, hit or deal kicks. The main thing is it clear what is behind all these actions. In order to show that reality is "empty", he can stand still with hands folded over his chest. If him another question is asked, he might shake the tea plant, or go without a word of it or put the questioner a stick blow.
Sometimes the master of poetic and compares the spirit of the "emptiness" with the moon, it calls the "mind-moon" the moon or the Sun-safety-An old master of the Zen philosophy sings of the moon:
The moon is lonely and complete:
The light engulfs the ten thousand things
nor that the world exists of the things
Light, world, and things are gone,
and what remains - what is it?
The master leaves the question open. Would she answered, the moon would no longer there. Reality splits, and emptiness leads to emptiness.
We should not lose sight of the original moon, the primordial spirit-moon, and the master wants us to reflect on it, because with him we have started.
Emptiness is not empty space, it contains within itself infinite light, and all the diversity of the world, it absorbs it.
The Buddhist philosophy is the philosophy of "emptiness," the philosophy of self-identity. Self-identity is to be distinguished from mere identity.
For a mere identity, there are two objects that are found to be identical to each other, when there self-identity is only one object or subject, a single, and this one finds its identity by coming out of himself.
Self-identity thus includes movement. And we note: self-identity is Spirit, who goes out of itself, to see themselves mirrored in.
Self-identity is the logical substrate of pure knowledge, or of "emptiness".
In the self-identity, there are no contradictions. The Buddhists call it that So-heit. [...]
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[…] Die Aussage „leer“ ist bereits eine Verneinung ihrer selbst. Aber man kann nicht stumm bleiben. Das Problem ist, die Stille mitzuteilen, ohne sie zu verlassen. Aus diesem Grunde vermeidet Zen es soviel wie möglich, Zuflucht zur Sprache zu nehmen, und bemüht sich, uns hinter die Worte dringen zu lassen, damit wir gleichsam – was dort ist – auszugraben. Eckhart tut das unentwegt in seinen Predigten.
Er wählt einige harmlose Worte aus der Bibel und lässt sie ein „Inneres“ aufdecken, das er in seiner unbewussten Bewusstsein erfährt.
Sein Gedanke liegt keineswegs in den Worten selbst. Er macht sie zu Instrumenten seiner eigenen Absicht.
Auf ähnliche Weise bedient sich der Zen-Meister irgendwelcher Dinge um ihn herum, einschließlich der eigenen Person, irgendwelcher Bäume, Steine, Stöcke u.s.w. Er mag dann laut schreien, schlagen oder Fusstritte austeilen. Hauptsache es wird klar, was hinter all diesen Handlungen steckt. Um zu zeigen, dass die Wirklichkeit „Leere“ ist, kann er stillstehen mit gefalteten Händen über der Brust. Wenn ihm eine weitere Frage gestellt wird, mag er die Teepflanze schütteln oder wortlos davon gehen oder dem Frager einen Stockhieb versetzen.
Zuweilen ist der Meister poetischer und vergleicht den Geist der „Leere“ mit dem Mond, nennt ihn den „Geist-Mond“ oder den Mond der So-heit- Ein alter Meister der Zen-Philosophie singt von diesem Mond:
Der Mond ist einsam und vollendet:
Das Licht verschlingt die zehntausend Dinge,
noch dass die Welt der Dinge existiert,
Licht, Welt und Dinge sind dahin,
und das was bleibt – was ist´s?
Der Meister lässt die Frage offen. Würde sie beantwortet, wäre der Mond nicht mehr da. Wirklichkeit spaltet sich auf, und Leere mündet in Leere.
Wir sollten die Sicht auf den ursprünglichen Mond nicht verlieren, den uranfänglichen Geist-Mond, und der Meister möchte, dass wir uns auf ihn besinnen, denn bei ihm haben wir begonnen.
Leere ist nicht leerer Raum, in sich enthält sie unbegrenztes Licht, und alle Vielfalt der Welt nimmt sie in sich auf.
Die buddhistische Philosophie ist die Philosophie der „Leere“, die Philosophie der Selbst-Identität. Selbst-Identität ist zu unterscheiden von bloßer Identität.
Bei bloßer Identität gibt es zwei Objekte, die als miteinander identisch festgestellt werden, Bei der Selbst-Identität gibt es nur ein Objekt oder Subjekt, ein einziges, und dieses eine stellt seine Identität fest, indem es aus sich herausgeht.
Selbst-Identität schließt also Bewegung ein. Und wir stellen fest: Selbst-Identität ist Geist, der aus sich heraus geht, um in sich selbst gespiegelt zu sehen.
Selbst-Identität ist das logische Substrat reiner Erkenntnis oder von „Leere“.
In der Selbst-Identität gibt es keinerlei Widersprüche. Die Buddhisten nennen es So-heit. […]
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Source: D.T. Suzuki, „Der westliche und der östliche Weg“ (The Western and Eastern Weg),
Chapter: „Meister Eckhart und der Buddhismus“ (Meister Eckhart and the Buddhism)
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Introduction (Cover)
This book is a volume of "World Perspectives", which set the task to issue short writings of contemporary thinkers responsible in various areas.
The intention is to show fundamental new directions in the 'modern civilization, to interpret the creative forces that are in the east and west, at work, and the new consciousness to make clear that a deeper understanding of the interaction between man and the universe, can the individual and society and all nations shared values.
The "world outlook" represent the world community of ideas in a universal call, emphasizing the principle of unity of mankind, the continualness in the conversion.
Ullstein Publishing house - 1957
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|| Wikipedia: D. T. Suzuki || Meister Eckhart || Ζζ || Set: Αα - Ωω ||
1948 Daimler (British) DE 36 Hooper convertible with an unusual green paint job and sporting the distinctive Daimler
curved grooves in the top of the Radiator Shield.
The Daimler Motor Company Limited, was an independent British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in London by H. J. Lawson in 1896, which set up its manufacturing base in Coventry. The company bought the right to the use of the Daimler name simultaneously from Gottlieb Daimler and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft of Cannstatt, Germany. After early financial difficulty and a reorganisation of the company in 1904, the Daimler Motor Company was purchased by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) in 1910, which also made cars and notable motorcycles under its own name before World War II. In 1933, BSA bought the Lanchester Motor Company and made it a subsidiary of Daimler.
Daimler was awarded a Royal Warrant to provide cars to the British Monarch in 1902; it lost this privilege in the 1950s after being supplanted by Rolls-Royce. Daimler occasionally used alternative technology: the Knight sleeve valve (quiet) engine which it further developed in the early twentieth century.
In the 1950s, Daimler tried to widen its appeal with a line of smaller cars at one end and opulent show cars at the other, stopped making Lanchesters, and developed and sold a sports car and a high-performance luxury saloon and limousine.
In 1960, BSA sold Daimler to Jaguar Cars, which continued Daimler's line and added a Daimler variant of its Mark II sports saloon. Jaguar was then merged into the British Motor Corporation in 1966 and British Leyland in 1968. Under these companies, Daimler became an upscale trim level for Jaguar cars except for the 1968-1992 Daimler DS420 limousine, which had no Jaguar equivalent despite being fully Jaguar-based. When Jaguar Cars was split off from British Leyland in 1984 it retained the Daimler company and brand.
In 1990 Ford Motor Company bought Jaguar Cars and under Ford it stopped using the Daimler marque in 2007. Jaguar Cars remained in their ownership, and from 2000 accompanied by Land Rover, until they sold both Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors in 2008, who created Jaguar Land Rover as a subsidiary holding company for them. In 2013, Jaguar Cars was merged with Land Rover to form Jaguar Land Rover Limited, and the rights to the Daimler car brand were transferred to the newly formed British multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover.
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