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These Tibetan Prayer Flags were located on a mountain ridge just above the Mahakala cave where Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) meditated. It is in this cave that he realized that fasting and mortifying the flesh would not bring him enlightenment or divine knowledge. This cave is located 12 km from the main town of Bodh Gaya where Siddartha later became enlightened under the Bodhi Tree.
The flags were put up by Tibetan monks from a nearby Monastery. After sharing some tea with me, they encouraged me to climb up the mountain and see the flags they had just hung.
The photo was taken with a Leica M8 using a 28mm ASPH Summicron at F2 with a 1/6000 sec shutter speed.
All the day any novice's Monk come here for célébration and praying Buddha
It is the most important duty of all Burmese parents to make sure their sons are admitted to the Buddhist Sangha by performing a shinbyu ceremony once they have reached the age of seven or older. A symbolic procession and ceremony of exchanging princely attire with that of an ascetic follows the example of the historical Buddha. He was born a royal prince called Siddartha Gautama, but left his palace on horse-back followed by his groom Chanda , in search of the Four Noble Truths and to attain Nirvana, after he found out that life is made up of suffering (dukkha) and the notion of self is merely an illusion (anatta or non-self) when one day he saw the 'Four Great Signs' The old, the sick, the dead, and the ascetic - in the royal gardens
The Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya, India.
The place where Prince Siddartha recognised the nature of his mind and became known as the Buddha, the Awakened One.
During PBS’ NOVA “Troubled Waters (w.t.)” session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, CA on Monday, January 16, 2017, Charles Lunsford Professor of Civil Engineering Marc Edwards, Flint resident and Luster’s Contracting Principal Veo Luster, Environmental Engineer and PhD candidate Dr. Siddartha Roy, producer and director Llewellyn “Llew” Smith and NOVA series senior executive producer Paula Apsell discuss investigation into the water disaster in Flint, MI.
(Premieres May 31, 2017)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Le Wat Tham Khao Yoï est situé au pied d'un très joli mont karstique planté au centre d'une belle campagne..
Les murs intérieures et extérieurs sont entièrement recouvert de fines sculptures racontant les vies antérieurs du Bouddha appelées les jatakas en Inde et Totchatchadok en thaïlandais ทศชาติชาดก.D'autres parties la vie de Siddartha Gautama de sa naissance à sa mort.
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The Wat Tham Khao Yoï is situated at the foot of a very attractive karstic mount crashed in the center of a beautiful countryside..
Walls internal and outsides are completely covered with fine sculptures telling the lives previous of the Buddha called jatakas in India and Totchatchadok in Thai ทศชาติชาดก.Other parts the life of Siddartha Gautama of his birth in its death.
The Mulagandhakuti Vihara at Sarnath is a Buddhist temple rebuilt in 1931 in the place where was the first Sangha (Buddhist community).
A Japanese artist has adorned the walls of the temple of splendid paintings relatants life of Siddhartha Gautama.
The Buddha scattered the first community to spread the Dharma "teaching".
Le Mulagandhakuti Vihara à Sarnath est un temple Bouddhique reconstruit en 1931 à l'endroit ou se trouvait le premier Sangha (communauté Bouddhiste).
Un peintre Japonais a orné les murs du temple de splendides peintures relatants la vie de Siddartha Gautama.
Le Bouddha dispersa cette premiere communauté afin de répandre le Dharma "l'enseignement".
El Mulagandhakuti Vihara en Sarnath es un templo budista reconstruido en 1931 en el lugar donde estaba la primera Sangha (comunidad budista).
Un artista japonés ha adornado las paredes del templo de espléndidas pinturas relatants vida de Siddhartha Gautama.
El Buda dispersa la primera comunidad para difundir la "enseñanza" Dharma.
Hey Guys!! This is my contribution to Siddartha's Portrait book. I combined a bit of collage with Drawing and painting, but I wanted to make us seem like we were blending with each other as well as the background.
Once again a photo of me is published on the cover of 'Straf Spul',
This is a magazine of Het Veerhuis, a drug assistance organisation in Leuven
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin. Photo: Emelka Konzern. Himansu Rai and Seeta Devi in Prem Sanyas or Die Leuchte Asiens/The Light of Asia (Franz Osten, Himansu Rai, 1925). Bayern Films. Caption: Gotama and Gopa's wedding ceremony. One of the many dramatic scenes from the new film of the Münchener Lichtspielkunst, The Light of Asia, which Franz Osten created as the first German large-scale film with the participation and support of the indigenous princes of the historical cities of India in the course of several months of joint work by Indians and Europeans. An overwhelming picture of oriental splendor and exotic beauty.
Himansu Rai (1895-1940) was one of the stars of the early Indian cinema when India was still a part of the United Kingdom. He often worked with German director-producer Franz Osten. Later Rai became a producer.
The German-Indian production Prem Sanyas or Die Leuchte Asiens (Franz Osten, Himansu Rai, 1925) depicts the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the man who became the Buddha. Prem Sanyas is a fascinating hybrid between exoticism and authenticity. The film made stars of the two young leads, Seeta Devi and Himansu Rai. Actor/director Rai would become one of the pioneers of the Indian cinema. Prem Sanyas was the first Indian co-production and made with the cooperation of the Maharajah of Jaipur. The film contained a cast of thousands. The shooting took place in Lahore, in what is now Pakistan, where the set decoration was created by Devika Rani, the wife of actor/director Himanshu Rai and a noted actress herself.
Actor/director Himansu Rai was born in 1895 into a wealthy Bengali family. While training as a lawyer in London in the early 1920s, he began to act in plays. In London, he met his later wife Devika Rani who designed film sets and would continue to work with him. In 1933, he joined forces with IBP of England and wholly produced Karma/Fate (J.L. Freer-Hunt, 1933), a bilingual film in English and Hindi. But the Nazi seizure of power in Germany caused Rai to abandon international co-productions and so he decided to concentrate on the domestic film market in India. In 1934, he formed Bombay Talkies Ltd. and built a studio. Under his painstaking supervision, it purchased the most modern equipment from Germany. Franz Osten and a handful of technicians came down from England and Germany to work with him. By 1935, a stream of Hindi productions had begun to emerge from the studio. The advent of World War II meant that the studio's German technicians as well as director Osten were interned by the British, which crippled the studio. Overwork and mental strain eventually took its toll on Rai, who suffered a nervous breakdown which he never recovered from. Himansu Rai died in 1940.
Sources: Filmportal.de, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Les fantastiques prédictions d'un grand sage concernant la vie du futur Bouddha a ses parents.
Fantastic predictions of a great sage on the life of the future Buddha's parents.
Predicciones fantásticas de un gran sabio en la vida de los padres del futuro Buda.
Le Mulagandhakuti Vihara à Sarnath est un temple Bouddhique reconstruit en 1931 à l'endroit ou se trouvait le premier Sangha (communauté Bouddhiste).
Un peintre Japonais a orné les murs du temple de splendides peintures relatants la vie de Siddartha Gautama.
Le Bouddha dispersa cette premiere communauté afin de répandre le Dharma "l'enseignement".
The Mulagandhakuti Vihara at Sarnath is a Buddhist temple rebuilt in 1931 in the place where was the first Sangha (Buddhist community).
A Japanese artist has adorned the walls of the temple of splendid paintings relatants life of Siddhartha Gautama.
The Buddha scattered the first community to spread the Dharma "teaching".
El Mulagandhakuti Vihara en Sarnath es un templo budista reconstruido en 1931 en el lugar donde estaba la primera Sangha (comunidad budista).
Un artista japonés ha adornado las paredes del templo de espléndidas pinturas relatants vida de Siddhartha Gautama.
El Buda dispersa la primera comunidad para difundir la "enseñanza" Dharma.
MAHAVIRA:
Mahāvīra (Sanskrit: महावीर "Great Hero", Kannada: ಮಹಾವೀರ Mahāvīra, Malayalam: മഹാവീരൻ Mahāvīran and Tamil: அருகன் Arukaṉ) is the name most commonly used to refer to the Indian sage Vardhamāna (Sanskrit: वर्धमान; traditionally 599–527 BCE) who established what are today considered to be the central tenets of Jainism. According to Jain tradition, he was the 24th and the last Tirthankara. In Tamil, he is referred to as Arukaṉ or Arukadevan. He is also known in texts as Vira or Viraprabhu, Sanmati, Ativira,and Gnatputra. In the Buddhist Pali Canon, he is referred to as Nigantha Nātaputta.
Life:
Birth of Prince Vardhaman:
Queen Trishala and her fourteen dreams from Kalpasutra
In a place called Kundalagrama (Vaishali district) situated close to Besadha Patti, 27 miles from Patna in modern day Bihar, India, Mahavira was born to King Siddartha and Queen Trishala on the 13th day under the rising moon of Chaitra (April 12 according to the Gregorian calendar). While still in his mother's womb it is believed he brought wealth and prosperity to the entire kingdom,which is why he was named Vardhaman. An increase of all good things, like the abundant bloom of beautiful flowers, was noticed in the kingdom after his conception. Trishala had a number of auspicious dreams before giving birth to Vardhaman (14 according to the Svetambaras and 16 according to the Digambaras), signs foretelling the advent of a great soul.
Jain tradition states that after his birth, the king of the gods, Indra, bathed him in celestial milk with rituals befitting a future Tirthankara and he was returned to his mother.
Vardhaman's birthday is celebrated as Mahavir Jayanti, the most important religious holiday of Jains around the world
Previous births:
Mahavira’s previous births are discussed in many Jain texts like Trisastisalakapurusa Charitra and Uttarapurana. While a soul undergoes countless reincarnations in transmigratory cycle of samsara, the births of a Tirthankara are reckoned from the time he secures samyaktva or Tirthankar-nam-and-gotra-karma. Jain texts discuss 26 births of Mahavira prior to his incarnation as a Tirthankara.
They are:
Nayasara – A village headman who secured or partial enlightenment in this birth on account of preaching of true dharma by Jain monks.[clarification needed]
Demi-god in First Saudharma (Name of Heaven as per Jain cosmology)
Prince Marichi – Grandson of Rsabha, the first Tirthankara.
Demi-god in Fifth Brahma (Name of heaven as per Jain cosmology)
Kaushika – A Brahmin
Pushyamitra – A Brahmin
Demi-god in First Saudharma
Agnidyota – A Brahmin
Demi-god in Second Ishana (Name of heaven as per Jain cosmology)
Agnibhuti – A Brahmin
Demi-god in Third Saudharma
Bharadwaja – A Brahmin
Demi-god in Fourth Mahendra (Name of Heaven as per Jain cosmology)
Sthavira – A Brahmin
Demi-god in Fifth Brahma
Prince Vishvabhuti
Demi-god in Seventh Mahashukra (Name of heaven as per Jain cosmology)
Triprishtha Vasudeva – First Vasudeva of this half-time-cycle
Naraka in the seventh hell
A lion
Naraka in the fourth hell
A human being (Name unknown)
Priyamitra – A Chakvartin (The universal ruler of seven continents)
Demi-god in Seventh Mahashukra (Name of heaven as per Jain cosmology)
Prince Nandana – Accepted the vow of self control and gained Tirthankara nama karma.
Demi-god in tenth Pranata (Name of heaven as per Jain cosmology)
Vardhamana Mahavira (The final birth)
Philosophy:
Mahavira's philosophy has eight cardinal principals – three metaphysical and five ethical. The objective is to elevate the quality of life.
Mahavira preached that from eternity, every living being (soul) is in bondage to karmic atoms accumulated by good or bad deeds. In a state of karmic delusion, the individual seeks temporary and illusory pleasure in material possessions, which are the root causes of self-centered violent thoughts and deeds as well as anger, hatred, greed, and other vices. These result in further accumulation of karma.
To liberate one's self, Mahavira taught the necessity of right faith (samyak-darshana), right knowledge (samyak-gyana), and right conduct (samyak-charitra'). At the heart of right conduct for Jains lie the five great vows:
Nonviolence (Ahimsa) - to cause no harm to any living being;
Truthfulness (Satya) - to speak the harmless truth only;
Non-stealing (Asteya) - to take nothing not properly given;
Chastity (Brahmacharya) - to indulge in no sensual pleasure;
Non-possession/Non-attachment (Aparigraha) - to detach completely from people, places, and material things.
These vows cannot be fully implemented without accepting the philosophy of non-absolutism (anekantavada) and the theory of relativity (syādvāda, also translated "qualified prediction"). Monks and nuns adhere strictly to these vows, while the laypeople observe them as best they can.
Mahavira taught that men and women are spiritual equals and that both may renounce the world in search of moksha or ultimate happiness.
Mahavira attracted people from all walks of life, rich and poor, men and women, touchable and untouchable. He organized his followers into a fourfold order; monk (sādhu), nun (sādhvī), layman (Śrāvaka), and laywoman (Śrāvikā). This order is known as Chaturvidh Jain Sangha.
Replica of Pavapuri temple at Pansara. Mahavira attained Nirvana at Pawapuri.
Mahavira's sermons were preserved orally by his immediate disciples known as Ganadharas in the Jain Agamas. Through time many Agama Sutras have been lost, destroyed, or modified. About one thousand years after Mahavira's time the Agama Sutras were recorded on palm leaf paper. Svetambaras accept these sutras as authentic teachings while Digambaras use them as a reference.
Jainism existed before Mahavira, and his teachings were based on those of his predecessors. Thus Mahavira was a reformer and propagator of an existing religion, rather than the founder of a new faith. He followed the well established creed of his predecessor Tirthankara Parshva. However, Mahavira did reorganize the philosophical tenets of Jainism to correspond to his times.
A few centuries after Mahavira's Nirvana, the religious order grew more and more complex. There were schisms on minor points, although they did not affect Mahavira's original doctrines. Later generations saw the introduction of rituals and complexities that some criticize as placing Mahavira and other Tirthankaras on the throne similar to those of Hindu deities.
Charcoal on Paper and then processed through editing on my Iphone in Purple Haze
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Ici l'histoire de Sujata offrant un riz avec du lait a Bouddha.
Here the story of Sujata offering milk rice with Buddha.
Aquí la historia de Sujata ofrenda de arroz con leche con Buda.
The Mulagandhakuti Vihara at Sarnath is a Buddhist temple rebuilt in 1931 in the place where was the first Sangha (Buddhist community).
A Japanese artist has adorned the walls of the temple of splendid paintings relatants life of Siddhartha Gautama.
The Buddha scattered the first community to spread the Dharma "teaching".
Le Mulagandhakuti Vihara à Sarnath est un temple Bouddhique reconstruit en 1931 à l'endroit ou se trouvait le premier Sangha (communauté Bouddhiste).
Un peintre Japonais a orné les murs du temple de splendides peintures relatants la vie de Siddartha Gautama.
Le Bouddha dispersa cette premiere communauté afin de répandre le Dharma "l'enseignement".
El Mulagandhakuti Vihara en Sarnath es un templo budista reconstruido en 1931 en el lugar donde estaba la primera Sangha (comunidad budista).
Un artista japonés ha adornado las paredes del templo de espléndidas pinturas relatants vida de Siddhartha Gautama.
El Buda dispersa la primera comunidad para difundir la "enseñanza" Dharma.
During PBS’ NOVA “Troubled Waters (w.t.)” session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, CA on Monday, January 16, 2017, Charles Lunsford Professor of Civil Engineering Marc Edwards, Flint resident and Luster’s Contracting Principal Veo Luster, Environmental Engineer and PhD candidate Dr. Siddartha Roy, producer and director Llewellyn “Llew” Smith and NOVA series senior executive producer Paula Apsell discuss investigation into the water disaster in Flint, MI.
(Premieres May 31, 2017)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Fueled in life by writers such as Nikos Kazantzakis’s Report to Greco, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s books including, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and Crime and Punishmnent. There were beat books by Jan Cramer who penned I Jan Cramer while gorging on life one continent removed from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. As well lighter fare such as Ken Kesey’s tome Sometimes A Great Notion, Tom Wolfe’s Electric Cool Aid Acid Test, the series by Carlos Castaneda beginning with The Teachings of Don Juan A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Thomas Merton would steal the thunder like no other with one hundred word sentences in Zen and the Birds of Appetite, you had to be on your game to get it! Like others we discovered the magic in the collection of Herman Hesse novels from Siddartha to Magister Ludi, with a taste of Albert Camus for dessert. There was the well written Aldous Huxley books in particular The Doors of Perception. Dylan Thomas wrote endearing passages such as Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night, Salinger, Twain, Hemingway and Steinbeck did not go unnoticed. Besides literature there were also numerous outspoken lyrics to be found within the songs of the days musicians. Tunes like, I shall be Released written by Bob Dylan and played by the Band, Dear Mr. Fantasy by the British Group Traffic, an older folk song that criticized war, Where Have All the Flowers Gone by Pete Seeger, The Doors classic, This is the End, The Beatle’s Revolution, Number Nine, Number Nine. The list is far too long to continue with. It was difficult not to feel Empowered as well as Enlightened by this ever evolving collection of hip Literary Genius. Something that is sadly missing in the Ipad world.
Classes started the following Monday morning around 9AM, I’d hitch hike down University Avenue, always catching a ride, imagine a world where you don’t own a car, no gas bills, or insurance? How easily we embed this need in our list of necessities. The first week at campus was getting to know you stuff, reading assignments, grease the wheels, get comfortable with the itinerary, a lot of niceties.
The Campus Pub was open a few nights a week it was popular as it featured cut rate beer in a darkened atmosphere, tunes played on the speaker system, clientele was comprised almost entirely of students. I had bought some Chairman Mao paraphernalia at a downtown store, enamel Mao pins with the Chairman’s likeness, green hats, Gold Chinese Stars. To raise funds for drink sustenance I stood in the foyer of the pub selling the articles at slightly increased prices to a amused and captive audience. Besides the pins and hats I also had a briefcase full of little Red Books. People gobbled them up, I sold out quickly. I had fallen in favour of the Chinese form of Communisim as it was my belief that prior to Mao millions of Chinese were dying of starvation in the old China. I know he had to eliminate a lot of people in order for his system to work and that many feel even today that he continues to kill the unborn children by way of his one child policy, even so, China truly is a better place now than in its colonial days because of his harsh ideas. To my knowledge, everyone can eat if they contribute. Lets not be overly naïve there are many problems with the system but up to that time the wealth had been stolen by and accumulated by Imperialists, and Colonialists for private gain. As is the case in numerous societies today under the guise of democracy.
The University presented a forum for freedom of speech which suited my shoot from the hip style, I didn’t care who I annoyed. Like a drunken gypsy I lashed out at many ideas of society. Pete and I were invited to the local Liberal nomination party for Herb Grey when he was just getting started in Federal politics. We attended a gathering at a banquet room near the school and after enjoying some free wine and cheese we started to shout out “Long Live Trotsky” it wasn't long before we were escorted from the premises. A few weeks later Bill Davis who was running for the Premier of Ontario made an appearance at the Pub, there was a stir as he entered the building where I was selling my Mao pins, a friend gave me the heads up, knew I had the nerve and desire to disrupt things. I was taken to the front of the line where Davis was shaking all the right hands he stopped and said hello and asked me what I thought about his campaign, at the time he was the Minister of Education for the Conservative Party, I asked him why his party had taken funding away from the Catholic school board in Kirkland Lake, the question had been given to me by an anti Davis supporter, he looked at me and just ignored me, like I wasn’t there, like I was invisible, his handlers scooting him away, there’s a photo of this in the yearbook.
The time came for buckling down, to hit the books. Generally speaking the lessons were enjoyable, classes lasted about fourty five minutes, at the very most there would be three on any given day, when I dropped Geography I had Fridays off which was handy, though the geography professor had made an important comment on the possible need for our country to share its vast space with the crowded countries of India and China or witness mass deaths by starvation and worse than that war. In University the emphasis is on reading subject matter related to the courses, and of course writing essays. Writing the essays was very pleasant, the library was chock full of books on the subjects at hand, researching the subject required one to spend time at the library, to discipline oneself to incorporate this into ones life, and for the most part I easily learned the new routine and took pride in receiving some excellent marks.
There was a particularly good mark given one of the essays I wrote on Ancient India in a class taught by guru John Willard Spellman an American from Salem Massachusetts, a scholar. His course was an introductory semester dealing with life in Ancient India. Dr. Spellman was a dynamic speaker who was and is a thorn in the side of modern living. Whatever western ideas I had ingrained in my life were purged after a few lessons by this great man.
Spellman lit a spiritual fire under some of his students, the ones who wanted to be set on fire. He did it in a challenging fashion, he would cite examples of life as we ( inexperienced spoiled western society students ) knew it and challenge its necessity. He pointed out little things like traveling in cars alone, the usage of that gasoline, the eating of fast food, the need to continually be entertained, he pointed out that in reality North Americans were not happy unless they were consuming. Other Spellmanisims concentrated on the simplicity of Hinduisim he was always trumping the love of the Hindi Gods, the pantheon of religious deities, especially of Vishnu, Krishna and Lord Shiva as well as the idea of Dharma, the Truth. He said that it matters not what you do in life as long as you let the Truth permeate your actions, he presented a fantastic almost surrealistic view of all things India, seen through his personal beliefs and experiences in India. The immediate benefits of Spellmans award winning presentation lay in the fact that he forced you to examine the life you were leading at a critical time, at a time when it could have a great impact on you and possibly the people you were to touch in life. India became then and remains to self the Motherland, a place from where much of mankind began. He would bring the history of the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Kama Sutra and other great works into classroom discussion, just give you a taste, a nibble of what lie ahead, we or at least some of us gave him Cult status, we would work very hard to write the very best essays to please Dr Spellman. I have no recollection what I actually wrote the class high essay on, that received an A+, but my pride in receiving the mark as well as an in front of class acknowledgment remains one of the high points of my re-education.
As one who would admire a hockey coach or musician I placed my admiration at Spellmans feet. At times I found myself hanging around his office, keeping him informed on the scene, he was curious to know what people were up to as all his free time was spent on trips to India. When he heard I was heading to a concert in Detroit to see the British band Traffic at the big ice rink he gave me ten or twenty packs of NORML rolling papers to sell at .50 cents a pack for the cause as he was the local representative for the organization that featured some heavy hitters in the world of marijuana reform circles. In class one day Dr. Spellman was steaming, his un ironed shirt and school colours tie matched his wrinkled and stained blue blazer. The previous day, a Sunday he was doing his Yoga or Mantra whatever he was doing these fucking snowmobiles went by his property creating a real bad sound, broke his concentration, he raged and raved on about the noise pollution, the intrusion on his space, he chased them off, by the time he finished his lecture that day he was most exasperated.
I underestimated the work that went into becoming the head of a department, first off it must take an awfully dedicated person to endure the discipline required to learn Hindi and some Sanskrit, a gifted person. Much of the good Docs spare time was spent in India, doing research on various matters, archaeological, religious, cultural and so forth. Spellmans office could not have been improved on by a movie staging crew. On the walls there were ancient pictures of Indian deities, on the desk sat authentic thousands of years old stone carvings, on the floor antiquities peered from half opened wooden crates while shredded wood packing material lie at the base, there were numerous wooden statues of various deities whose names he knew as if speaking about his family, papers were stacked two feet high along with piles of thick resource books and stacks of pupils papers for marking. I had found my guru, all these years later I wonder what he would think of some of my new gurus, Paramahansa Yogananda and in particular Sathya Sai Baba. If I hadn’t had this wonderful opportunity to study under this Master the year in Windsor would have been a complete waste of time.
A few years back, perhaps in 2005 I began communicating with Dr. Spellman, he had long since retired from the Asian Studies department at Windsor, when we spoke he held a chair at The Harvard School of Law, he had done some important work in his life. At one time he was the head of a United Nations organization that saw to it that funds were used to bring water systems to remote parts of India. Another function saw him lead the group opposed to development of a marsh area near his home town of Amherstberg. They won the long court battle. One law related cause that Dr. Spellman took was as the chief witness to the history of the Sikh peoples use of the Kirpan sword/knife in their everyday lives, this made national news around the world. One comment attributed to him is, “the Kirpan is no more a danger than the Cross. He loves gardening and spends a good deal of time tending his gardens. I asked him about the guru Sathya Sai Baba who had entered our lives through the ancient art of Literary Channeling . The Doctor had visited the ashram in Puttaparthi in the 70s, at that time rumours were rife about the sexual habits of Sai Baba. Dr. Spellman said to me these words, “Charles, I can ensure you that Sathya Sai Baba does far more good on earth than evil”. With that my displeasure with Sai Babas proclivities vanished and I accepted him back into my life, as one of my gurus. At one time I felt I would write a long essay on the life of Dr. Spellman, he sent numerous works he had been involved in, newspaper articles that were collecting dust at his home, as well as a set of books from the Ashram in Puttaparthi pertaining to studies related to the godman Sai Baba.
I want to insert a paragraph or two taken from a meeting in Detroit in 1971 where we find Dr. Spellman speaking about his views on ancient society at the first Winter Soldier Investigation. The following is but a page from his talk to the committee…it was in this same tone that Dr. Spellman spoke to us students and set the mould for free thought.
*By our own proclamation, we are the most intelligent, the most powerful, the most creative, and the best of all life that this planet has seen. Indeed, the Book of Genesis tells us that after creating this world, with its apex as man, God gave man dominion over it. Now, we have been around for approximately two million years and our future is reasonably uncertain. Even the dinosaurs, whom we classify as rather dumb creatures, managed to survive for about 12 million years. There are many who question the likelihood of this species surviving for that long a period. The experiments of Darwin on the Galapagos Islands and the work of other scholars have shown that adaptation to environment is crucial to survival.
As I understand these lessons, they mean that each society has its own integrity, physical and cultural. As a consequence of its adaptation, according to its past experiences, its judgment and self-interest, values which may be desirable for one society, cause the gravest physical and mental harm when imposed on another. And it is in this light that I wish to view what we are doing to Vietnam. The bulk of Western values are based on the historical experiences of the Judaic-Christian and Greco-Roman cultures. Of prime importance in that value system has been the role assigned to the importance of belief, and this concept of belief occupies a cardinal role, particularly in Christianity.
Unless, we are told, you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not have eternal life. And in this sense I wish to contrast that statement with the statement of the Lord Krishna and the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred Hindu text: "Whatsoever divine form any devotee with faith seek to worship, that same is divine." But the beliefs of Christianity were understood as exclusive and excluding beliefs. And it was part of our heritage, and it is part of our heritage to this day, that what is good for us ought to be universal and it ought to be good for everyone.
Earlier in our history we found that those who held a different perspective than we did on religion, and we made our ultimatum very clear, after we had poured scorn and ridicule on these people, calling them heathens and pagans and superstitious polytheists, we then killed them in the name of our religion. And the Crusades and witchcraft and the religious persecutions followed. Later (and this continues today), we felt that we had the righteous responsibility to condemn those who believed in political systems (rather than religious systems) that were different from our own. Thus it became quite legitimate to kill Communists and others simply because they were Communists, and because they believed in a different form of government from ours. There are still those today who believe with all the fervor that righteousness often summons, that we ought to continue on this path of killing those who disagree with us. I believe that we are now on the threshold of a new killing crusade.
Having killed for religious beliefs and then political beliefs, I believe we are now on the threshold of killing for economic beliefs. It takes no prophet to predict that there will be destruction and riots and killings in the name of economic creeds in the future. And that these will seem just as valid as religion and politics have seemed to our predecessors historically. Such values as these are alien to Asian society. Neither Hinduism nor Buddhism, Confucianism nor Taoism have ever engaged in religious crusades because of their beliefs. Indeed, both Hinduism and Buddhism advocate non-injury as among the highest of values*.
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For other entertainment purposes I gave a few performances at a local pub as a “spoken word” artist, my rap was like a cross between Kerouac meets Ghandi as the material covered the ups and downs of the world as I was seeing it, one verse in particular, “one piece hockey stick” was spoken in a country drawl, with the opening line, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE ONE PIECE HOCKEY STICK THE ONE THAT NEVER BROKE, and so on, a real critique of the throwaway society I found myself in. Since I was given these new avenues of expression there was no stopping my ego which lavished in the small praise I received at performances or for other writing experiences as when I did some concert and film reviews for the school paper The Lance as a freelance writer. Now and then I would submit articles and prose/poetry the most infamous being the winding tale “The Evers of Never”. I made myself a celebrity, I had an audience and I was confident enough through the use of books, gange, alcohol and pills to have a new clearer picture of myself, surely the new environment must have aided this transformation, as well as the feeling of well being that one can associate with attaining spiritual and creative goals, of finding ones place in life after being lost and confined for so long. Happiness is a state of mind. Often a temporary elixir to be savored at the time and forever for it is often fleeting and quite difficult to recognize.
THE EVERS OF NEVER
MANY YEARS FROM NOW, IN A LAND THAT WILL BE KNOWN AS NEVER THERE WILL EXIST A SPECIES OF HUMANS THAT WILL BE KNOWN AS EVERS. YOU SEE, IF YOUR EYES ARE OPENED YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEE. THE EVERS OF NEVER WERE SO DESIGNED, IN FACT THEY EVOLVED DESIGNEDLY THAT IT WAS NECESSARY FOR THEM NEVER TO SEE, NOT ONCE, NOT EVER. YOU SEE, BY FUNCTIONING THUSLY, THE EVERS OF NEVER WILL LIVE FOREVER.
NOW ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF OPPOSITES WHICH HOLDS THAT ALLL THINGS TO EXIST MUST HAVE OPPOSITES THERE WILL ARISE IN THE LAND OF NEVER A SPECIES OF HUMANS DIRECTLY OPPOSED IN ALL WAYS TO THE SPECIES OF EVERS OF NEVER. THIS NEW SPECIES WILL BE KNOWN AS NEVERS AND THEY WILL CALL THEIR LAND WHICH IS ALSO THE LAND OF THE EVERS OF NEVER EVER. WHICH COMPLIES TO THE LAW OF OPPOSITES. SO, IT IS SAFE TO ASSUME THAT THE NEVERS OF EVER WILL BE WIDE EYED AND ABLE TO SEE AND LIKE THE EVERS OF NEVER, THE NEVERS OF EVER WILL LIVE FOREVER.
AS IT WILL BE, THE EVERS OF NEVER NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE OF COURSE WILL NOT KNOW THAT THE NEVERS OF EVER ARE LIVING ON NEVER AND OF COURSE, THE EVERS OF NEVER WOULD NEVER KNOW THAT THE NEVERS OF EVER WERE ABLE TO SEE. THE NEVERS OF EVER OF COURSE COULD ONLY COMPLY TO THE LAWS OF OPPOSITES AND WILL KNOW THAT THE EVERS OF NEVER DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY THE NEVERS OF EVER ARE LIVING ON EVER AND SEEING THE EVERS OF NEVER.
IT WILL COME TO PASS IN THIS LAND KNOWN TO THE EVERS AS NEVER AND TO THE NEVERS OF EVER THAT THE KING OF THE EVERS HAS A DREAM OF TEMPTING DELIGHT WHENCE HIS EYES ARE OPENED NO LONGER CLOSED AS IN NIGHT AND THE THINGS THAT HE SAW WERE SUCH A SIGHT THAT IT TOOK ALL HIS MIGHT TO SURPASS THE INITIAL FRIGHT OF IT ALL SO THAT HE COULD REGAIN HIS SANITY. NOW AS IT WILL BE ON THE VERY NIGHT THAT THE KING OF THE EVERS OF NEVER IS HAVING HIS DREAM, THE QUEEN OF THE NEVERS OF EVER WILL ALSO EXPERIENCE AN EVENT IN HER SLEEP A DREAM SO DEEP, SO STEEP, SO FAR ABOVE HER IN FACT THAT SHE SAW SO VERY MANY THINGS THAT AFTER A WHILE NOTHING COULD BE SEEN, NOT EVEN A PEEP. TO THE QUEEN OF THE NEVERS OF EVER, THIS DREAM WHERE SHE DID NOT SEE NOT A SINGLE THING MEANT SIMPLY THAT ALL THINGS SEEN WERE ONLY A DREAM A SCHEME SHE PROCLAIMED WHICH WAS CONTROLLING THE PROCESS OF LIVING FOREVER. AS THE QUEEN OF THE NEVERS OF EVER WAS PROCLAIMING THUSLY, THE KING OF THE EVERS OF NEVER, AN HONEST MAN NO DOUBT GATHERED ALL THE PEOPLES THE WHOLE POPULATION OF THE EVERS OF NEVER AND PROCLAIMED TO THE MULTITUDES THAT THE SECRET OF LIVING FOREVER WAS SIMPLE AND HE THOUGHT HIMSELF CLEVER WHEN HE FURTHER EXPLAINED THAT WE THE EVERS OF NEVER ARE CAUGHT IN A DREAM, A SCHEME OF SOME NATURE SO INTELLIGENTLY WEAVED THAT IT HAS FOOLED US FOR YEARS AND IT’S PROPER TO ASSUME THAT WE WILL ALL BE DOOMED AND NEVER LIVE FOREVER IF WE DO NOT REALIZE THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH WE WERE GIVEN OUR EYES.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PROCLAMATIONS HAD BEEN DELIVERED, IN FACT BEFORE THE EVERS OF NEVER AND NEVERS OF EVER COULD REFLECT ON THIS KNOWLEDGE A MIST AROSE FROM THE LAND AND THE EVERS AND NEVERS OF NEVER AND EVER WERE JOINED TOGETHER AND WILL LIVE FOREVER IN A LAND THEY CALL NEVEREVER.
SELRAHC YROGERG
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Longe de ti são ermos os caminhos,
Longe de ti não há luar nem rosas;
Longe de ti há noites silenciosas,
Há dias sem calor, beirais sem ninhos!
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(Florbela Espanca)
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NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins speaks with physician and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee during The Big Read event in Masur Auditorium on April 17, 2017.
Credit: National Institutes of Health
Organised by "THE HINDU".
Session will commence at 4:30 p.m.
Venue: P.B Siddartha College of Arts & Science at Mogulrajpuram.
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Siddhartha' is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s.
The story revolves around a young man who leaves his home and family on a quest for the Truth. Embarking on a journey that takes him from the austerities of renunciation to the profligacy of wealth. That leads him through the range of human experiences from hunger and want, to passion, pleasure, pain, greed, yearning, boredom, love, despair and hope. A journey that leads finally to the river, where he gains peace and eventually wisdom. This is the story of Siddhartha as told by Nobel Laureate Hermann Hesse in his most influential work.
About the Author
Hermann Hesse (b. 1877) was a German-born Swiss poet and author, best known for writing the novels 'Steppenwolf', 'Siddhartha', and 'The Glass Bead Game'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. His themes focus on man's struggle to break away from the rigid structures of civilization and follow his essential and inner spirit. For this, Hesse became a literary cult figure.
During PBS’ NOVA “Troubled Waters (w.t.)” session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, CA on Monday, January 16, 2017, Charles Lunsford Professor of Civil Engineering Marc Edwards, Flint resident and Luster’s Contracting Principal Veo Luster, Environmental Engineer and PhD candidate Dr. Siddartha Roy, producer and director Llewellyn “Llew” Smith and NOVA series senior executive producer Paula Apsell discuss investigation into the water disaster in Flint, MI.
(Premieres May 31, 2017)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Those two young guy célébrate with all their family and friends their new life in the buddhism , by spécial céremony, go to temple for prying and have got the novicia 's way. The novice wear traditional Siddartha's clothes ( as the young buddha)
It is the most important duty of all Burmese parents to make sure their sons are admitted to the Buddhist Sangha by performing a shinbyu ceremony once they have reached the age of seven or older. A symbolic procession and ceremony of exchanging princely attire with that of an ascetic follows the example of the historical Buddha. He was born a royal prince called Siddartha Gautama, but left his palace on horse-back followed by his groom Chanda in search of the Four Noble Truths and to attain Nirvana, after he found out that life is made up of suffering (dukkha) and the notion of self is merely an illusion (anatta or non-self) when one day he saw the 'Four Great Signs' The old, the sick, the dead, and the ascetic - in the royal gardens
LOLA Day 230
March 24, 2015
Seriously Day 230 and it's nearly April!!!
A pic in my office with my niece's "flat Suzy" puppet for a school project. I am taking her to see the sites of Calgary.
2014 Book Reading List:
*Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
*The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen
*The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert
*Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain - John Ratey
*The Invention of Wings -Sue Monk Kidd
*The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind - Daniel Siegel
*Orange Is the New Black - Piper Kerman
*What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast - Laura Vanderkam
*Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
*****Everything That Remains - Joshua Fields Millburn
*Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling
*Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life - Joshua Fields Millburn
*The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking - Edward Burger
*The One Skill - Leo Babauta
*A History of the World - Andrew Marr
*10% Happier: How I tamed the Voice in My Head, Reducued Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-help That Actually Works - Dan Harris
*Divergent - Veronica Roth
*Insurgent - Veronica Roth
*Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
*Split: A Memoir of Divorce - Suzanne Finnamore
*Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story - Isabel Gillies
*The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
*The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
*Allegiant - Veronice Roth
*OOLA Find Balance in an Unbalanced world - Dave Braun
*Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
*North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both - Cea Sunrise Person
*Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres
*Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life - Joshua Becker
*The Silent Wife - A.S.A Harrison
*The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories - Marina Keegan
*The Silver Star - Jeanette Walls
2015 Reads to date
*Ender's Game - Scott Orson Card
*Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
*Warrior A memoir of courage, inspiration, and hope. A Journey with Cancer - Kyla McMullin
*The Girl on the Train - Paul Hawkins
*Hands Free Mama: A Guide to Putting Down the Phone, Burning the To-Do List, and Letting Go of Perfection to Grasp What Really Matters! -Rachel May Stafford
*Everything That Remains - Joshua Fields Millburn
*Tiny Buddha: Simple Wisdom for Life's Hard Questions - Conari Press
and right now I am just finishing off *The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are - Brene Brown
I just prepurchased, Toddlers Are A**Holes It's not your fault - Bumni Laditan and am pretty excited for what I am sure will be a hilarious book!
During PBS’ NOVA “Troubled Waters (w.t.)” session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, CA on Monday, January 16, 2017, Charles Lunsford Professor of Civil Engineering Marc Edwards, Flint resident and Luster’s Contracting Principal Veo Luster, Environmental Engineer and PhD candidate Dr. Siddartha Roy, producer and director Llewellyn “Llew” Smith and NOVA series senior executive producer Paula Apsell discuss investigation into the water disaster in Flint, MI.
(Premieres May 31, 2017)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Le tympan sud du portique du Vat Mai est orné d'une scène de la naissance du Prince Siddartha. Le petit Bouddha marche sur les 7 lotus.
"Son père, Suddhodona était le roi des Sakya (il ne fut probablement que Raja, soit propriétaire terrien de la caste des guerriers) ayant épousé la reine Maya, fort sage et vertueuse qui demeura chaste jusque dans l’état du mariage. Elle eut un jour un songe : elle vit, sans en ressentir la moindre douleur, un petit éléphant blanc à 6 défenses pénétrer dans son flanc ; la naissance aurait eu lieu 10 mois après le rêve prémonitoire. L’enfant serait né dans un bosquet du parc de Lumbini à l’ombre d’un figuier, et c’est Brahmâ lui-même qui aurait accueilli l’enfant déjà tout rempli de science et du souvenir de ses existences antérieures.
La légende dit qu’à ce moment précis toute la nature exulta en prodiges extraordinaires : les fleurs en boutons s’ouvrirent spontanément, et de divines musiques résonnèrent à toutes les oreilles... L’enfant se leva alors, regarda autour de lui puis fit 7 pas en direction des 4 points cardinaux, atteignant ainsi le sommet du monde. Le sage Asita, du fond de sa retraite himalayenne, eut la prescience de cet événement extraordinaire, et vint s’incliner devant l’enfant qui porte sur son corps les 32 marques de sa gloire à venir : son crâne présentait une excroissance, un front large et uni entre ses deux sourcils, des lobes d’oreille 3 fois plus longs que d’accoutumée, sous la plante des pieds tracée une roue aux mille rais..."
extrait du site : www.luangprabang-laos.com/La-legende-de-la-naissance-de.html