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As a country of 16 million people with a corrupt government run by a single-party political system, Cambodia is one of the poor countries in Asia, with a per capita annual income of around US$1500.
Many families in rural Cambodia simply cannot afford to feed their kids, let alone provide for their education. clothing, books and other normal childhood needs. They have a cop out: send them, especially their sons, to monasteries as monks.
Over 97% of Cambodia is Buddhist, and there are enough monasteries that can somehow absorb an endless supply of kids year after year. The monasteries get their financing from the people, who believe in their religion and think it is their duty to contribute to the monasteries.
The kids can actually leave the monasteries and return to a civil life, if their family circumstances improve, like a parent gets a job or promotion. It is infrequent, but it happens. But at the monasteries, the kids only learn Buddhist chanting and a monk's life, which hardly prepares them for career or social success in the real world. So they end up either continuing as monks, or taking up menial, low-paying jobs. Eventually, when they get married and have their own kids, they are no better positioned than their parents were, and another cycle of young monks starts.
The government is quite happy to have generations after generations be caught in this trap. So there is no serious effort made to get children educated and put them on a path to aim much higher in life. The more entrepreneurial Cambodians try to find jobs in more prosperous nearby countries like Vietnam or Thailand. Even for menial jobs, they can earn a lot more.
This is a real sad state of affairs in Cambodia. Not mentioned by anyone is the enormous potential for abuse at these monasteries. I am sure there must be many sincere monks in spiritual pursuits. But I am skeptical they are all enlightened souls.
Photographed at Angkor Wat.
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Lamayuru Monastery or Lamayuru Gonpa, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Ladakh : Day 7
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This is meant to be in a large scale print so when it's a couple feet wide you can start to see that the glass containers have galaxies and nebulae inside.
It is such a huge universe, possibly multiverse that we are just a minuscule speck in. What does that mean for us as a species? As an intelligent creation? What is our significance in such a vast existence? I think the continued search is such an important part of our lives and our development as individuals. Never stop asking, never stop learning, never stop searching.
To me there has always been a correlation between nature and spirituality. When I was younger I didn't understand this, all I knew is that I loved being in nature. But now, as I've gotten older and still love to be in nature, I've begun to realize that there is a natural correlation between the two.
For example, I love to walk in the woods, its always been a passion of mine. What has actually been going on for my entire life is that when I'm in nature, standing in woods, I'm also talking to God.
Nature and God are impossible to tell apart. In many respects the two are the same thing. It's obvious that most of the great thinkers that have ever walked this planet noticed the correlation between nature and God.
It is impossible for a human being to take a walk in the woods alone and not feel the presence of God in my opinion. That undeniable presence from which we all originated. The easiest way to get back in touch with this presence is through the serenity of nature. For me, it's always been most apparent while standing in a woods. For you, maybe it's overlooking a mountain or lake. For someone else it might be a stroll in a nature park. The point is that nature and spirituality are forever linked.
Taken: Woods of Ban, Near Karoor, Punjab, Pakistan
Journey to a place, take it in and feel the amazing gratitude, for the creator has made it all...for just for you...right here right now !
Dare to dream
Ceremonia maya conmemorativa del 13 baktún, Takalik Abaj, El Asintal, Retalhuleu.
Mayan ceremony commemorating the 13th baktun, Takalik Abaj, El Asintal, Retalhuleu.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
---Einstein
About: Shot for my commercial final..well one of them. Location is Sacred Heart church in Downtown Tampa. There was a wedding going on inside so unfortunately I couldn't shoot the organ..once again..disappointing.
9 Exposures:
ISO 100
1.0 E.V.
f/11.0
50mm
Gear:
Nikon D300
MB-D10
AF-S 50mm Nikkor f/1.4G IF-ED
MC-36 Intervalometer
Manfrotto Pro190xb Tripod
Processing:
-HDRI generated & tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 3.1.3
Photoshop CS3:
-Blended HDRI with 0 E.V. exposure
-Selective symmetry flip
-Curves, Levels, Hue/Sat. adjustments
-Unsharp Mask
Lightroom 2:
-Global & local color & contrast adjustments
Nikon FE | Nikkor 50mm 1.2 AiS lens @ f/2.0 | Fuji 400H 35mm film
Here's my review of this lens (posted on Amazon): www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R15B4OO3C4FZ5B/
Ss often in Japan, the contrast within a place can be really unsettling and you might find yourself wondering if you came to the right place when you see the hordes of chocolate-tanned surfers accompanied by their bleached haired girlfriends. Enoshima (江ノ島) is in fact one of the closest beaches to Tokyo and it becomes a very popular destination between the beginning of July and the end of August for all the surfers-alike, even though there is not much surfing to actually be done there.
You are nevertheless in the right place so keep walking a bit further from the beach, towards the center of the island. The street leading to the shrine is very lively and it is bordered by numerous souvenirs shops, traditional restaurants and ryokan (Japanese traditional inns) and in itself; wandering through its many shops can be worth of a few good minutes of your time.
-- depicted from Guide of Enoshima
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Part 2 of 3 : Basins, hygiene and spirituality
These architectural basins are certainly some of the most intriguing elements to this sprawling and fascinating prehistoric megasite. A fifth architectural example is visible below - a steep basin in the form of a lozenge.
Whilst history marks with invention, it can also move forward by assimilation and appropriation. Some small areas of these sculpted monoliths, for example sides to the large flat basin lower left, may show the marks of metal tools. For the most part, the metallic signature lines of history have either eroded away or were never present. These formations have not been dated. There are two fine dolmens at either side of the same vista and argumentation needs to see if any of the many basins on this site are contemporary to the late neolithic and how their function might be measured. At least one of the adjacent dolmens has smaller basins carved into its table and onto the side of a support.
I have split my analysis over more than one picture. This is the second part. The first part is attached to the photo below and covers issues of food production, 'alters' for sacrifice and rites and hygiene.
The spectrum for human ‘washing and hygiene’ style is wide. If we look at 'history', today, there are some people who shower twice a day. Contrast this with the French King Louis XIV who had just two baths in his whole life. These examples have been tweaked first by advertising and secondly by a fad from civilization, and whilst there will have been differences between clans in prehistory, hygiene will have kept within more reasonable boundaries than these examples. Cuts and wounds would be cleaned, hair brushed with combs (see below), teased with prongs, or cut with flint or copper. Mud will have been washed away from precious hand-made items and off legs, hands and faces.... Wanderers and hunting parties might get as dirty as they do today, and some decoratively beaded youths might spend more time than strictly necessary preening and grooming. Today, men look in mirrors and straighten their ties before leaving to sit on a train next to women who have painted their lips red and heightened the outlines of their eyes. Our cousin primates assign hours to look after each others fur - we simply carried on into our myriad of cultures and expressions. Neolithic people may have washed less than we do today, but that did not keep them away from the language and habits of appearance and health. There are times from prehistory and protohistory when a red ocre, oiled or powdered, was systematically spread onto the entire body. Before adding the earth pigments, the skin must be clean to assure the overall effect. Here, ticks, cuts, splinters, aches and fungi can all be monitored, and in so doing, improve the general well-being of the clan. We might expect one or two examples of clans that turn towards a speciality focus on spiritual health and well being. Hedonism does not have to be drunk, and it can be argued that the Epicurean 'clan', described from protohistoric writings, was an example of the range of ways of being available to prehistory.
There still seem to be too many basins for a simple neolithic community keen to stand over rising steam or baste in infusions of herb. The site is currently associated with a Medieval priory. Perhaps the basins were part of a pagan religion with the sacred hill appropriated in history? Spiritual communities attract visitors, which can help assure the exchange of basic goods. The hill in question is on-route towards the aged hills of the Massif Central, a geography which gives birth to the great rivers that navigate much of the length of the Pyrenees. The same Grandmont hill remains close to the sea breeze of the Mediterranean – so it may be understood as a focal point on a then ancient avenue of exchange and movement. The fire to heat stones, and the steam from the basins would mark out the hill from the distance, and rites of water would reward people arriving for a visit from potentially dissonant backgrounds. Here the flows helps to unify the prospects of visitors who arrive from afar, and avoids potential conflict of suspicion. Suddenly a range of basins and spiritual and practical functions makes sense.
Prehistory faded through the ages of copper, bronze and iron to settle as a patchwork oft described as Gaul, a post prehistoric identity that coalesced only as a reaction to the Roman invasion and an identity that existed, for the most part, as a mosaic. Were these architectural basins to date from this pre-Roman protohistoric period, issues of trade, passage, and spirituality might also have coalesced on this hill top. I will argue that the most coherent cultural dynamic for such a cluster may be the Chalcolithique (5,500 - 3,500 ybp) with the site having grown from smaller late neolithic basins.
The text continues on the adjacent photo marked 'Part 3'.
AJM 05/05/17
Jimbaran Bay, Bali
Canang sari is one of the daily offerings made by Balinese Hindus to thank the Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa (the "All-In-One God") in praise and prayer.
Canang sari can be seen in Balinese temples, on small shrines in houses, and on the ground or as a part of a larger offering.
Without passion, there can be no spirituality. Without spirituality, there is no soul. Give me soul.
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Oil on Stretched Canvas 30x24
Rock-n-Soul Angels
"Send Me An Angel" Scorpions Accoustica
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The Hippie Angel just may have gotten her "soul" on as the man on the moon blows a kiss.
This piece was loosely based on a dream about an Angel that I had when I was around seventeen years old. Fast forward to 2016, this is my interpretation.
To me:
"[I would never find inner peace outside myself or until I could release my fears that were holding me back from a heavenly life.
One cannot find love or peace with the contingency of another person, a location, or an ideal situation. Peace and love originates internally within oneself or not at all.]"
This week i'll start something different in flickr.
I'll name a flickr friend of mine and give you the link to one of his/her photos...
Fave their shot!!! :O) lets give something back!
This way we can show our friendship and give something back!
So if you do visit my photos this week, check out my wonderful friends work... let them know who sent you!
to jacques:
Existe una conexion entre la naturaleza y el cuerpo que solo es capaz de perciibirse cuando estamos en contacto con ella. Ella en su estado Natural y nosotros tambien... ❤
There is a bound between nature and our bodies, that we are only able to realize it, when we are in conecta within, Nature in its nature state as well us. ❤