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In attesa della seconda tranche di foto di Vienna, volevo segnalare a tutti gli amici fotografi una bella mostra.
Si chiama "My Spirituality", si tratta di un primo estratto di un lavoro in corso d'opera più esteso di ritratti di credenti omosessuali italiani, del giovane fotografo Luca Lo Iacono.
La piccola e bella esposizione sarà visitabile gratuitamente presso l'EuroPride Park di Piazza Vittorio, a Roma, dal 1 all'12 giugno.
Per maggiori info:
www.gionata.org/eventi/segnalazioni/my-spirituality-.-mos...
Shorinji-ryu karate-do Renshinkan was started by soke founder Isamu Tamotsu, 10th-dan (hanshi), in Kagoshima City, Japan, in 1955. Mr. Tamotsu was born in Naze City, Kagoshima Prefecture in 1919. He was given elementary lessons of karate by fishermen in Itoman, Okinawa in his boyhood and moved to Taiwan when he was 17. Tamotsu learned Kodokan judo and acquired Chinese Shorinji Nampa (southern) Kempo from roshi Chin at the same time. After the World War II, he acquired Kyan Chen Mie (legendary karate-ka) meijin jikiryu (traditional school) in Okinawa.
Integrating these martial arts with houen-ryu-taijutsu (houen-ryu gymnastic art), kensou-ryu-jujutsu (kensou-ryu yawara), hakkou-ryu-jujutsu (hakkou-ryu yawara), bo (long baton), sai (short sword-like weapon), jo (short baton), ancient Chinese martial arts, etc., and establishing his own viewpoint, Tamotsu started Renshinkan Shorinji-ryu karate-do.
With excellent techniques and high spirituality, Renshinkan has been spreading quickly all over Japan and the world for the last 43 years. Renshinkan boasts of 1,000 branches and 300,000 students in Japan.
Renshinkan is also proliferating in many foreign countries {ﾐepublic of China, USA, Philippines, India, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, and Panama.
In "Black Belt" an American martial arts magazine, a great number of Syorinji-ryu kata's and sparring techniques from the second soke, Iwao Tamotsu were introduced.
★ How to join Shorinji-ryu Renshinkan karate-do
Just make a phone call first! All you need is karate-gi!
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You first learn kukan-zuki. Hold both of your fists firm, thrust one of your hands with speed and power, pull the other backwards and strike with the elbow. It is important to maintain your axis and turn your shoulders and waist quickly.
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Mae-geri is a technique to kick the opponent with the upper part of the foot. It is the basic technique of various kicks. Continue training to kick as far as you can to the extent you don't lose your axis. Kicks vary a lot, but the basic kick remains to be mae-geri.
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Sokuto-geri is the technique to kick the opponent with the side of your foot. Techniques with elasticity and power of the entire body in the waist have big destructive power and characterize Renshinkan Shorinji-ryu karate-do.
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These three basic techniques are the essence of all.
Those practicing Renshinkan Shorinji-ryu karate-do are advised to practice these techniques every day.
Explained next are zenshin (forward) and kotai (backward), basics of shubi-gata (defense forms).
Sacred Heart University's Office of Mission and Catholic Identity hosted the annual Henri Nouwen Lecture on Contemporary Spirituality on November 17, 2016, in the Schine Auditorium. The talk featured speaker Gabrielle Earnshaw and actor Kevin Burns who read excerpts from Nouwen's personal letters that chronicle his life.
I sat straight up in bed. It was still dark outside. I was distinctly aware of the silence around me. The air on my nose felt cold, but there was a warmth inside my body. I felt the softness of the blanket on my legs, and the world felt cozy, still, and calm. I rubbed my eyes to ensure I was indeed awake.
“But my dreams are never that clear and straightforward,” I remember thinking to myself. “What do I do now?”
I wanted to bury my head under the covers and pretend the dream never happened.
Listening to the guidance in the dream was going to demand a lot of courage, not to mention create a logistical nightmare. “Maybe if I fall back asleep I will wake up with more insight, or just forget it happened altogether,” I said to myself.
But I lay awake, eyes wide open, staring into the darkness, unable to erase his voice from my mind.
In the dream, he was sitting across from me. I did not see his face. I sat quietly on a single bed across from him. It was a simple room. We were facing one another. I felt very comfortable with his presence. I knew him, but not from my waking life. I listened attentively, not saying anything myself.
He spoke in a calm and direct voice: “Go to South Africa before you go to India. Doors will then open for you to go to India and you will meet someone who is meant to be a teacher for you.”
That is when I awoke.
As I stared at the ceiling, recalling his voice, I began a flustered inner dialogue with this mystery man.
“Really? You’re telling me this now? Now, after I have been planning this trip for months, have booked my flights and set everything up? And who are you anyway? Maybe you are just trying to trick me. Why should I trust you?”
But as I argued with an “invisible” man in my head in the middle of the night, something deep within me felt drawn to him. He was direct and calm. I liked him. The soft stillness I had sensed upon waking was still lingering around and within me. And, for some reason, I trusted him.
A few months earlier, I had graduated a semester early from Cornell University and had decided to embark on an extensive journey overseas. For at least a year.
From a young age, I had longed to explore the sacred, to align my life in some way with a higher purpose, and to follow the pull of my soul regardless of what people thought.
At the time, my friends and boyfriend could not understand why I would want to be absent during our final semester at college. This was the time to celebrate, to party, to enjoy the final months of college life, carefree and laidback. But, it was not something I could explain. I just knew I needed to go.
I had planned to visit two destinations for six months each —India and South Africa, which is the land of my heritage. In South Africa I had arranged to volunteer at an HIV/AIDS orphanage for abandoned and abused children for six months.
To prepare for such a daunting task, my plan was to travel around India first. India had always enthralled me. I prepared to visit various meditation and yoga centers, and yearned to make a pilgrimage of self-exploration.
Everything had been booked and planned carefully.
The dream could not have come at a more difficult time. I was booked to leave in ten days. If I obeyed the dream I would have to change my flights, my bookings, everything. Not to mention, I would have to call the orphanage in South Africa and inquire if I could come six months early!
It was a massive disruption to my schedule, and not one I wanted to make based purely on some weird dream.
But the guidance was so clear.
I sat with the dream all day. During breakfast, I was withdrawn and quiet. My mother asked why. I told her about the dream.
“Wow. See if it stays with you throughout the day, my angel. If so, maybe you should listen.”
This is a classic response from my mother, who has always encouraged my exploration of spirituality and mysticism. She is a warm and highly intuitive woman who often trusts aspects of our existence outside of logic and rational thought.
Throughout the entire day, the mysterious man never left my psyche. On the surface, I wanted to ignore him. But in some hidden corner of my heart, I knew he had come for a reason, and I liked him.
And so I changed everything.
I traveled first to South Africa. During my six months at the orphanage, I was told about a course in Pranic Healing — a systematic form of energetic medicine based on the ancient Chinese, Indian, and Tibetan healing arts. Without knowing anything about the course, I knew I had to be there.
The instructor was a lovely Indian man. He saw my raw enthusiasm and passion for the material. He encouraged me to travel to India to meet the founder of this system of healing, who was a Chinese-Filipino man by the name of Master Choa Kok Sui.
At that moment, time stood still. I remembered the voice in my dream. Here was the door to India. Opening.
I booked my flight and left a month later. I spent three incredibly formative years learning healing and meditation under the master’s direct guidance. They were three years that greatly altered the direction of my life.
I now teach healing, yoga, and meditation all over the world, and I write for various publications on these topics. I have been able to touch and transform many lives through this work, including my own.
I cannot imagine what my life would be like had I not found the courage to listen to the kind, faceless man in my dream.
D. A. Q.
"He didn't know what to expect. He simply felt a strong pull to his heart, to come to this place, this place so far from home. It was his first time here, but somehow, he did not feel like a stranger. These people, many of them walking with tear-streaked faces, felt close to him. He stepped out of their way, trying to find shade away from the sweltering heat.
He gazed at the simple structure. Did he really believe? He was never quite sure. He had never actually thought about it. But this scenario unnerved him. It forced him to feel, to think, to question. But his thoughts were interrupted when he was tapped lightly on the shoulder by an old man, who seemed to be blind, who offered him a cool glass of zamzam water. The man smiled, and with his hoarse voice, said words of prayer and turned away.
He was not sure why, but a solitary tear fell from his eye."
- ~Aphrodite
"A man can’t plow a field by turning it over in his mind."
- old Welsh saying
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"A man can’t plow a field just by thinking about it, he must go out to the field and get to work. Yet if he is fully present to the work and acts with mindfulness and loving attention — that is, if he brings his whole self along — then even as he turns over the rich soil beneath his plow, he turns it over in his mind and heart as well. The act of tilling the soil becomes an act of tilling the soul."
- from "Turning the Soil of Soul: Ritual as Celebration"
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At first, I only wanted to find some small thing that represented the meaning of "devotion" in my life. Devotion gives me a sense of empowerment, a sense of connection and gratitude that keeps me going. But then I asked myself: what is it that empowers my devotion? What helps me to "do devotion better"?
Just yesterday, I finished a piece on ritual as celebration that has gone up over on the Patheos CUUPS blog, Nature's Path. In my life, learning and curiosity empower my acts of devotion. Knowledge shapes my practice as a I search and research for those threads that weave us into the world.
My Word of the Day altar is set up on the windowsill next to my desk, and there on my desk was a perfect example: Catherine Bell's Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. When we see the diversity available to us, we're empowered to explore beyond the simple forms that we've inherited by default.
#UULent #empower #devotion #meditation #spirituality #ritual
Prophet mohammed Mosque at Al-Madinah..
(Al-Masjid al-Nabawi)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Masjid_al-Nabawi
هالصوره شآركت فيهآ بمعرض التصوير الرقمي الأول .. بجآمعة الملك سعود ..
واليوم رحت شفتهآآ
والله مررررره انبسسسطت
حسيت اني كشخه ..
بس للاسف كآنت صغيره ..
طلبو مني اكبرها بس حست ولا عرفت !
لكن الحمدلله احس اني سويت انجآز ..
لاني بالعاده اتكآسل لين يخلص وقت الشي بعدين اتحسف..
QuoteoftheDay 'Spirituality is not knowledge; spirituality is reality.' - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
This is one of the many yet to be between the Human and the Chakra with the mandala art form.
I have others on my web site
i have a thing on my blog where i post pictures of spiral galaxies under the series name spiral-tuality. this time i’m adding a flower: it’s made of stardust, too.
‘carl sagan distinguished clearly between mysticism and spirituality. while mysticism is concerned with matters of magic, the occult, the supersensual and ‘essentially unknowable,’ spirit is something quite different, he maintained. "it comes from the latin word 'to breathe'. what we breathe is air, which is certainly matter, however thin. despite usage to the contrary, there is no necessary implication in the word 'spirituality' that we are talking about anything other than matter (including the realm of matter of which the brain is made) or anything outside the realm of science...science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality...the notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a profound disservice to both.'’
- from new jersey humanist network
6 seconds is the exposure time for this photo, so in order to fully appreciate this photo I encourage you to look at it for at least 6 seconds. Can you dig the message?
Gallery of Daily Darshan : April 22, 2016
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Here is my virtual tour through the city - portfotolio.net/jup3nep/album/72157631887823501
The Hippodrome of Constantinople (Turkish: Sultanahmet Meydanı, At Meydanı, Turkish pronunciation: [sulˌtanahˈmet]) was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydanı (Sultan Ahmet Square) in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving. It is sometimes also called Atmeydanı (Horse Square) in Turkish.
The word hippodrome comes from the Greek hippos ('ιππος), horse, and dromos (δρομος), path or way. Horse racing and chariot racing were popular pastimes in the ancient world and hippodromes were common features of Greek cities in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine eras.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippodrome_of_Constantinople
Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul) is the largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With a population of 13.5 million, the city forms one of the largest urban agglomerations in Europe[d] and is among the largest cities in the world by population within city limits. Istanbul's vast area of 5,343 square kilometers (2,063 sq mi) is coterminous with Istanbul Province, of which the city is the administrative capital. Istanbul is a transcontinental city, straddling the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical center lies in Europe, while a third of its population lives in Asia.
Founded on the Sarayburnu promontory around 660 BC as Byzantium, the city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. For nearly sixteen centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in 330 AD, it served as the capital of four empires: the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). It was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times, before the Ottomans conquered the city in 1453 and transformed it into an Islamic stronghold and the seat of the last caliphate. Although the Republic of Turkey established its capital in Ankara, palaces and imperial mosques still line Istanbul's hills as visible reminders of the city's previous central role.
Istanbul's strategic position along the historic Silk Road, rail networks to Europe and the Middle East, and the only sea route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean have helped foster an eclectic populace, although less so since the establishment of the Republic in 1923. Overlooked for the new capital during the interwar period, the city has since regained much of its prominence. The population of the city has increased tenfold since the 1950s, as migrants from across Anatolia have flocked to the metropolis and city limits have expanded to accommodate them. Arts festivals were established at the end of the 20th century, while infrastructure improvements have produced a complex transportation network.
Seven million foreign visitors arrived in Istanbul in 2010, when it was named a European Capital of Culture, making the city the world's tenth-most-popular tourist destination. The city's biggest draw remains its historic center, partially listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but its cultural and entertainment hub can be found across the city's natural harbor, the Golden Horn, in the Beyoğlu district. Considered a global city, Istanbul hosts the headquarters of many Turkish companies and media outlets and accounts for more than a quarter of the country's gross domestic product. Hoping to capitalize on its revitalization and rapid expansion, Istanbul is currently bidding for the 2020 Summer Olympics.