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Empty Fields is the first exhibition to explore the archive of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) and the Protestant mission work in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Working with the archives, the exhibition begins by considering the period when the Empire collapsed and the Republic was formed, whereby certain archival absences bear the traces of the Great Catastrophe of 1915.Â
Why are they empty? Why are they bricked up? This benefits no one. Why not at least let people squat if you not going to use them or plan on demolition at some point.
"Emptiness"
Week 16
This week's prompt was "Lamp." I decided to use street lights instead because they are a little bit more photogenic than a boring house lamp. I thought this would've been an easy prompt, but it ended up being more difficult than than anticipated.
I came across this empty alley when I went for a walk along Capitol street in Charleston the other night. I had actually visited this spot during the day and decided that it would look better a night.
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Preservons la Creation (french for Let's Preserve the Creation), a giant mural in an empty lot facing Fannin Street behind 800 San Jacinto Street, was executed by Sebastien “Mr. D” Boileau. The five story tall, 10,000-square foot mural is a twist on the depiction of God in Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
On an alley off the Thames, somewhere around Queenhithe / Vintner's Court, but I can't recall exactly.
Went to see Persepolis on Sunday morning. I was early, and I was the only person in the theater until 2 minutes before it began. Then an entire 9 more people showed up. This is a giant pity.
empty cafe in a tropical resort
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Empty Dream (1995), shows a scene from Ocean Dome - in Miyazaki - the largest indoor artificial beach in the world. Mariko appears four times dressed up as a mermaid.
This lady was there when I came to work and there still when I left. The empty shoes were sitting there still.
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A T T E N T I O N:
P S Y C H O A C T I V E
_____________________________The “Vajra” Self-Rectifying Process
A word in advance: This entry contains instructions for procedures that, due to their simplicity, are “advanced” practices. Known together as, The Vacuum Cleaner for Your Mind, they require sufficient control of your attention muscle to do them. Without that adequate control, some may find that their thinking-word mind is producing too much noise, noisier, even, than The Vacuum Cleaner for Your Mind — impossible for some, for now. The key, for such ones is practice of The Gold Key Release and the Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual.
In this entry I present two procedures, The Ka-Bong and Flashing the Unknown Unknown, that, when combined, provide a quick, even instant way to disarm and dissolve grips seemingly held upon us by unconscious habits of self-contraction and distress, so they can be sucked out of our mind. Right then.I present them, one at a time, for practice. Once you are practiced in them, you can follow one immediately with the other. In my experience, the immediate result is the recognition and release of self-contraction patterns felt, bodily, as a postural shift and relaxation into a new postural shape, accompanied by relief from the psychological tension you are addressing, and a new sense of presence. The Rationale for The “Ka-Bong”
The Ka-Bong is a “back-door” maneuver for dissolving hidden grips that keep us in the grip of our world-mind inheritance, confused, and stuck.
Those hidden grips show up as repetitious patterns of behavior that are recognizable and characteristic of the person, that have a feel to them that is part of the person’s sense of self, and part of the person’ way of harmonizing by which others recognize them. These grips are the chronic issues and ongoing complaints of a person’s existence, as well as the virtues to which they adhere. They are the programs of a person’s life.
Once recognized (generally, something we do or experience again, and again), the experience (as remembered) can be passed through The Ka-Bong, which dissolves the “part” or aspect of that behavior pattern that we still confuse with the basic reality of life. At that moment, the field of radiant awareness that underlies all can be intuited.
The reason The Ka-Bong works is that our habitual states are always forms of definition, or limited conditioning, whereas reality is inherently formless and, contrary to everything we are taught or have heard, is unknown by us (not a form of knowledge, at all, but ineffable experience). What we know is our conditioning, which we confuse with reality, “itself” (there is no “itself”, except in a manner of speaking). When we do the release step of The Ka-Bong, though we may think we are releasing the effort to intuit, identify or “locate” reality, what we are really doing is releasing an effort that keeps us stuck in our conditioning (which, as I said, we confuse with reality). Said another way, when we release the effort to intuit reality, the force of our conditioning releases along with it,
This way of saying it is a concession to our pre-conceived notions of reality as “the real conditions of our life.”
More strictly speaking, reality is always already the case and always already our present condition, so anything we may do to intuit reality is in addition to that — and can only obscure the intuition of reality as our already-condition. The release that occurs in The Ka-Bong simply clears the way for that intuition. The way to intuit reality is to let go of it and any efforts to intuit it. Then, something entirely unexpected flashes forward. Beyond these words, nothing useful may be said.
So, try The Ka-Bong a few times in a row. Notice the result. It gets interesting.The “Ka-bong!”The “Ka-bong!” is thus:Ka-
Fully feel your experience, whatever it is, whatever you have chosen —
whether some ideal or your sense of “Here-Now”.
Notice whatever you do to locate or identify it.
Stop doing that.Bong!
Do it repeatedly, releasing whatever comes up until the true, formless-ness of your ideal
becomes intuitively obvious.
It’s a form of “drilling down” until you reach the result.Now that’s know-how!Expounding on The “Ka-Bong”
The “Ka-Bong” is the simplest, most immediate maneuver,
for the effect it produces.
It consists of two phases:"Ka-": the set-up"Bong!": the follow-through.
The set-up sets the stage —
a direction of movement
locating or identifying a subject or object
that has a certain intensity —
an ideal outcome of some kind
or the intuition of “what about existence has been the same all your life”
or the sense of “Now-ness”
or the sense of “Here-ness”
— something generally binding upon us.
The follow-through action
is the recognition that whatever we are doing to locate that intuition or sense of reality
is unnecessary and does not represent or produce that which we seek,
and so we instantly desist from that effort of locating it.
The direction of movement is thus:
Identifying “Now-ness”
and then recognizing:
What I call, “Now-ness” is memory
and so I cease to regard it as “Now-ness”,
but regard it as memory.
Now-ness is unknown
and does not become known
until it is remembered.
“Now-ness” is not the so-called “present”.
“Now-ness” is unknown.
Our perception of everything delayed by the reaction time of our nervous system.
By the time we perceive it, it is past (short-term memory).
Everything emerges from “Now-ness”, into “Now-ness”, and exists in “Now-ness”
as the form of “Now-ness” —
but very “Now-ness” is unknown.
The direction of movement is thus:
Identify “Here-ness” for ourselves,
then recognize our two options:
We may mid-identify “Here-ness” as our surroundings.
or
we may identify “here-ness” as our own ever-presence.
In either case, we notice that we identify “Here-ness”
by means of some movement of attention or recollection
by which we refer to “hereness”.
It’s a gesture of intention.
AND THAT’S NOT IT, so LET IT GO, like throwing back a fish.
For “hereness” is the “self-hereness”,
the sense that always, wherever we are, no matter how we are moving,
before anything,
that sense of “here-ness” is unconditionally, always “here”
— omni-conditionally.The Rationale for “Flashing the Unknown Unknown”One of the fundamental predicaments of human beings is that we are involuntarily caught in experience — engaged in ways often not consciously of our own volition — ways that directly cause us pain and distress and lead to dysfunctional behavior and dysfunctional results, ways we have inherited from our parents, society, mass media, “educational” system, and the collective consciousness (“noosphere” or morphogenetic field). We are stuck in repetition of ourselves. Our attention is stuck in “the known” and our intention is stuck in our reactions to “the known”.So — how to get unstuck?The first step is to get a clear (or clearer) perception of the way in which we are stuck; we “surface” the sub-conscious material. Only with a sufficiently clear perception can we release (not repress or suppress) it.When surfacing sub-conscious material, it helps to contrast that material with something else.
There is one condition that stands in contrast to all other conditions: It is the condition of the Unknown Unknown (also known as “I-I”). It requires a release of attention from whatever attention is on to contemplate the Unknown Unknown.
But the Unknown Unknown cannot be known. Only its erroneous proxies (approximations) and our gestures or movements of attention toward it (internal representations) can be known — and they are not the Unknown Unknown — only representations of what we erroneously identify as the Unknown Unknown — the “Known Unknown”.
Actually, that’s not a problem, but actually the very stuff we need to successfully unstick ourselves. We can’t go wrong in this procedure, because any approximation of it gets released in the procedure, itself, leaving us freed to some degree. Repetitions free us more.
An observation by Buckminster Fuller makes it simple: There is only one way into (or toward) something, but infinite ways out of (or away from) it. Ponder that for a moment until it’s obvious. It is obvious, isn’t it?
Since what we’re doing in Flashing the Unknown Unknown is moving out of conditioning, even if we do it wrongly (doing the steps as given), we get the right result.Flashing the Unknown Unknown means intuitively to recall the sense of, Unknown Unknown. This is an act of intention and of faith, of sorts.In general, we first feel fully into the grip we are in — into the dense conditioning — and secondly, while feeling it, we intend to feel beyond it — the Unknown Unknown. It’s a movement outward. So, it’s first into the conditioning, then outward, beyond, toward the Unknown Unknown.
The fact is, we can’t do it. Anything we identify as the Unknown Unknown is, the Known Unknown.
In fact, the Unknown Unknown is always already present and as known as it’s ever going to get — which is to say, NOT! If you can know it, it ain’t the Unknown Unknown.
So, it’s a safe bet that whatever we are doing to intuit the Unknown Unknown is not it and obscures that intuition with effort; and a safe bet that any effort we are making to “Flash the Unknown Unknown”(after making the full-effort) is right-effort. We can’t go wrong. The effort to feel the Unknown Unknown takes us away from our habitual conditioning, both weakening our grip on it and providing a contrast to it, so we can apperceive it (perceive it within) in a new, more complete way that makes it more vulnerable to release. To touch base with (or to intend) the Unknown Unknown changes our experience of the known, reducing its solidity (memory-grip).The Unknown Unknown may be intuited as open-mind-space, an indefinable field of openness, which cannot be remembered, only intended (that’s not a typo or error; I mean intended). Even if we do that step poorly and feel only the effort to locate the Unknown Unknown still confused with the known, we get the intended result — as long as we put our best effort into it.Why do this? Because as we release the effort to intuit the Unknown Unknown, the effort of wrangling with experience also releases. A few repetitions may be necessary.Flashing the Unknown Unknown, alternating with the Ka-Bong, gets verrry interesting. One useful preparation for Flashing the Unknown Unknown is to refresh our sense of attending to something, intending, remembering, and imagining (the TetraSeed). For that preparation, we do The Spell-Maker/Breaker. (to be discussed)Helpful Preparation (click and do)"Flashing the Unknown-Unknown" is thus:
Fully feel your experience, whatever it is, whatever you have chosen.
Feel its location in you, size, shape and intensity.Intend your attention beyond or “larger than” it, toward the Unknown-Unknown.Clearly notice the effort it takes to do that.
Return to your limited experience.
Relax all efforts of attention.
Feel the release."Wash, rinse, repeat."Don’t bother trying to understand this. Just do it. You can’t do it wrongly.Relevant Perspective
What we look for, beyond seeing,
and call the unseen,
Listen for beyond hearing,
and call the unheard,
Grasp for beyond reaching,
and call the withheld,
merge beyond understanding
in a oneness
that does not merely rise and give light,
does not merely set and leave darkness,
but forever sends for a succession of living things
as mysterious as the unbegotten existence
to which they return.
That is why men have called them empty phenomena,
meaningless images in a mirage
with no face to meet, no back to follow.
Yet one who is anciently aware of existence
is master of every moment,
feels no break since time beyond time
in the way life flows.
~~ The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh Ching, verse 14
Witter Bynner translation
Integration
Having practiced both procedures, follow one immediately with the other.Reason: Subconscious vestiges of dissolved identity structures may remain even after thoroughgoing practice of some TetraSeed Modulations; procedures that set a new direction flush up what may remain, to which you may then apply one or more of the other TetraSeed Modulations
The “proof” of the “pudding” is in the “eating”.
other TetraSeed Modulations
The Gold Key Release
The Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual
The Wish-Fulfilling Gem
Esoteric Somatics and Tibetan BuddhismSEARCH KEYWORDS:(to return to this entry again, later.
caring | | 42
harmony | 85 | 94
memory | | 89
identification | 7 | 148
perpetuation | 78 | 162
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on my way back home from nashville I stopped by the wheeler wildlife refuge again. this time during the day. I think I like these shots even better, and that really surprised me.
this is the entrance to the park.
I love big empty spaces.
tonemapped off a single raw file.
I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete
This is a rescue bird that is an ambassador at the Arizona Desert Museum. I would have liked to get some better shots of her, but it was about 110 degrees and she was being kept in the shade in front of a little air conditioner, so I made due. No reason to stress a bird just for a photo.
Anyway, the reason I made this post - a few weeks back, I told you that I was applying to participate in a birdfeeder study. You follow a strict protocol as to what blend of food you put out at which feeder and all that. Last week, a box with four really nice feeders, poles and squirrel baffles showed up (which you get to keep). Then I got the protocols for where to place the freeders, what to put in each feeder etc.
You are required to empty each feeder (and "discard" whatever is left) every day so that there is fresh food in each feeder so that picking through for the good stuff from the previous day won't influence the results. Then you record what birds go to each feeder for a 30 minute period at the same time each day.
So, I figured that completely emptying and filling 4 feedeers every day for about 6 weeks would be a lot of food (they send all the food to you as well).
Today, I received 8 boxed containing a whopping 360 POUNDS of seed for the study. I knew that there were 4 different blends that were to be used, so I opened the boxes to see what was in each so that I could easily get to the right blends and put the boxes in my shed. What I found was that I have only received HALF of the seed so far. I guess there is another 350 to 400 pounds coming tomorrow.
I guess the birds are REALLY going to be happy!
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I don't think I could ever get tired of photographing empty waves! A photograph from a recent swell in Cornwall taken at my favorite beach break.
Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport.
Large and bright modern airport, capabilities of which do far exceed the demand of Lviv today. The Airport was built with a reserve for the future and today stays three quarters empty.
That is such a relief - empty and comfortable airport departure hall!!!
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Empty Sky is the official New Jersey September 11 memorial to the state's victims of the September 11 attacks on the United States. It is located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City at the mouth of Hudson River across from the World Trade Center site.
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Empty living room with a peek at our view. It really is beautiful. At night it's all glittery city lights.
An "Empty Bed" for July's Monthly Scavenger Hunt. Bonus alarm clock right next to the bed for hitting snooze four times every morning.
Empty Sky Memorial to the victims of 9/11 with One World Trade in the background and a beam from the fallen WTC in the foreground.