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Greetings my friends.
Wishing you a happy Sunday and a great week ahead.
Take care and have lots of fun.
Kind regards
Ross
There’s a fantastic spot just in front of Brandenburg Gate where you can capture light trails of vehicles going in both directions.
As there is about 3x to 4x more traffic heading in the direction of the white lights as the opposing red lights, you need a little luck and some patience / perseverance in order to capture a shot where the two light trails are roughly in balance.
(This is the first of two long exposure photos captured at this location that I intend to upload to Flickr at some point.)
Thank you for your interest, views, faves, comments and awards ! This image was captured in Germany 德國. (Better viewed on a larger screen.)
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Village Cigars 2014 This popular store is located at one if the most famous corners in New York City - 7th Ave / Christopher st. in Greenwich Village NYC. #nyc #7thavenue #villagecigars #history #landmark #greenwichvillage #bnw #christopherstreet #subwa
Like many others, I have trekked in the dark from the parking lot to the canyon edge to capture the sunrise at Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River in Arizona, and was it worth it? Absolutely! Surprisingly, the most beautiful portion of the sunrise is actually short and fleeting. It occurs when the rising suns’ rays reflect inside the canyon just before the sun itself has risen over the horizon. It's often those fleeting moments of natural beauty that leave the most lasting impressions.
The famous T. A. Moulton Barn in Jackson, Wyoming – located just outside of Grand Teton National Park.
All the elements conspired in our favour today, the sun and the famous fog appeared to embellish the scene. The blue diesel smoke from the ship is real and contrasted superbly with the fog. My thanks to my friend Ellen for suggesting we stop at this view today. Though in silhouette here, the conditions did make for the best of the red oxide colour of the bridge later on. Some more images of it to follow.
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, California USA
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Maritime mood in the port of Enkhuizen, a historic town in North Holland, The Netherlands. Enkhuizen was an important shipping port for centuries until the Zuiderzee was enclosed by the afsluitdijk ( a major causeway ) in 1932. The town of Enkhuizen, is situated on the shores of The IJsselmeer.
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From the archives- 2012
These cabins may be painted blue now, but fans of LOST will remember them as the yellow DHARMA barracks. Walking through here feels like stepping onto the set — the picnic tables, the mountain backdrop, and the cabins themselves all bring back memories of some of the show’s most unforgettable scenes. Time has changed the colors, but for fans, the spirit of the DHARMA Initiative still lingers in the quiet corners of this place.
Feeling homesick and nostalgic.
Tail o' the Pup
Architects: Milton J. Black
Location: 311 North La Cienega Boulevard
Year of completion: June 1946
“mimetic”-type novelty architecture
Kitsch Architecture
Out at Wylies Baths on a cold winters morning at Coogee Surf Life Saving Club. Amazingly, even though it was freezing, the Life Savers were out running up and down the beach and swimming laps in their skimpy togs.
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A vibrant photograph taken in Budapest, Hungary, in the 1980s. The image showcases a fast-moving hydrofoil on the Danube River, with the iconic Margaret Bridge and the SZOT Hotel visible in the background. The scene reflects a typical urban river view of Budapest from this period.
The pulsating heart of Midtown Manhattan, Times Square brings together bright lights and thronging crowds. New York City.
The rock ABOVE the shrine that looks like a vulture; upper right, facing left.
THIS ROCK IS NOT BELOW THE SHRINE, BUT, RATHER, ON THE ROCK SPIRE COVERED WITH PRAYER FLAGS BETWEEN THE PATH UP AND THE SHRINE, I.E. YOU SEE THE ROCK SPIRE BEFORE WALKING UP AND CLOCKWISE AROUND IT TO THE SHRINE.
Vulture peak clarification:
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The shrine at Vulture Peak (Grdhrakuta) is located at the top of this hill - shown in the next image in this photostream
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Vulture Peak is in Rajgir, northern Inda. It is where the Buddha inspired Avalokiteshvara to give the Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutram requested by Sariputra.
During the Buddha's time, under the patronage of the Rajgir King, there were many monasteries and tens of thousands of monks. The Buddha spent many years here bringing beings to bodhi.
The rock just below the shrine that looks like a vulture; upper right, facing left.
prajnaparamita hridaya sutra-perfect wisdom heart sutra
aryavalokitesvaro bodhisattvo
(Avalokateshvara bodhisattva)
gambhiram prajnaparamita caryam caramano vyavalokayati
(deep perfect wisdom action perform luminously)
sma panca skandhas tams ca sva bhava sunyam
(saw five bundles them own nature empty)
pasyati sma iha sariputra
(I saw oh Sariputra)
rupam sunyata va rupam rupan na prithak
(form emptiness evidently form form not different)
sunyata sunyataya na prithag rupam
(emptiness emptiness not different form)
yad rupam sa sunyata ya sunyata sa rupam
(this form that emptiness this emptiness that form)
evam eva vedana samjna samskara vijnanam
(like this feeling thought choice consciousness)
iha sariputra sarva dharma sunyata
(oh Sariputra all dharmas emptiness)
laksana anutpanna anruddha avmala anuna aparpurna
(mark not born not pure not increase not decrease)
ta sariputra sunyatayam
(therefore Sariputra in the middle of emptiness)
na rupam na vedana na samjna na samskara na vijnana
(no form no feeling no thought no choice no consciousness)
na caksuh srotam na ghrana jihva kaya manah
(no eye ear no nose tongue body mind)
na rupa sabda gandha rasa spistavya dharmah
(no form sound smell taste touch dharmas)
na caksur dhatur ya van na mano vijnanam dhatur
(no eye-area up to no mind-consciousness area)
na vidya na vidya na vidya ksayo va vidya ksayo
(no clarity no clarity no clarity exhaustion no clarity exhaustion)
ya van jaramaranam na jaramarana ksayo
(up to old age no old age exhaustion)
na duhkha samudaya nirdoha margajna
(no suffering end of suffering path)
na jnanam na prapti na bhismaya tasmai na prapti
(no knowledge no ownership no witnessing no thing to own)
tvad bodhisattva prajnaparamita asritya
(therefore bodhisattva perfect wisdom dwells)
viha ratya citta varano vidya ksayo na vidya ksayo
(in dwell thought no obstacle clarity exhaustion not clairty exhaustion)
ya van jaramaranam na jaramarana ksayo
(up to old age no old age exhaustion)
na duhkha samudaya nirodha margajna
(no suffering end of suffering path)
na jnanam na prapti na bhismaya tasmai na prapti
(no knowledge no property no witnessing no thing to own)
tvad bodhisattvanam prajnaparamita asritya
(therefore bodhisattva perfect wisdom dwells)
viha ratya citta varano citta varano
(in dwell thought no obstacle thought no obstacle)
na siddhitvad atrasto vipa ryasa ti kranto
(no existence fear fright inverse reverse ? separate)
ni stha nirvana tya dha vyava sthitah
(perfectly stands nirvana three worlds thing experiences)
sarva buddhah prajnaparamitam asritya
(all buddhas perfect wisdom dwell)
(a?)nuttaram samyaksambodhim abdhisambuddhah
(unexcelled ultimate perfect insight together ? buddhas)
ta smai jnata vyam
(therefore should know ?)
prajnaparamitamahamantram mahavidyamantram
(perfect wisdom great charm great clear charm)
anuttaramantram asamasama mantram
(unexcelled charm unequalled equal charm)
sarva duhkha prasa manam sa tyam ami thyatvat
(all suffering stop terminate genuine real not vain)
prajnaparamitayam ukto mantrah tadyatha
(perfect wisdom declaired charm saying)
GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA
(gone gone totally gone totally completely gone enlightenment awaken)
The text itself describes the mantra as "Mahāmantro, mahā-vidyā mantro, ‘nuttara mantro samasama-mantrah", which Conze translates as "The great mantra, the mantra of great knowledge, the utmost mantra, the unequalled mantra, the allayer of all suffering." These words are also used of the Buddha, and so the text seems to be equating the mantra with the Buddha. Although the translation is acceptable, the case ending in Sanskrit mantra is the feminine vocative, so gate is addressed to a feminine person/figure. A more accurate translation is "Oh she who is gone!" In this respect, the mantra appears to be keeping with the common tantric practice (a practice supported by the texts themselves) of anthropomorphizing the Perfection of Wisdom as the "Mother of Buddhas."
One can also interpret the mantra as the progressive steps along the five paths of the Bodhisattva, through the two preparatory stages (the path of accumulation and preparation — Gate, gate), through the first bhumi (path of insight — Pāragate), through the second to seventh bhumi (path of meditation — Pārasamgate), and through the eight to tenth bhumi (stage of no more learning — Bodhi svāhā). As Geshe Kelsang Gyatso explains in Heart of Wisdom: This mantra, retained in the original Sanskrit, explains in very condensed form the practice of the five Mahayana paths, which we attain and complete in dependence upon the perfection of wisdom.[37]
The current Dalai Lama explains the mantra in a discourse on the Heart Sutra both as an instruction for practice and as a device for measuring one's own level of spiritual attainment, and translates it as go, go, go beyond, go thoroughly beyond, and establish yourself in enlightenment. In the discourse, he gives a similar explanation to the four stages (the four go's) as in the previous paragraph. Unlike Greek, Sanskrit distinguishes between 'para' (across, as in Greek and our derivations) and 'pāra', which means across to the other side. The preposition 'sam' equates to the Greek 'συν', with (which here we can reasonably expand to together with). In fact this meaning has been known in western Sanskrit dictionaries at least since Monier Monier-Williams: he gave "saṃgata" as "come together , met , encountered , joined , united AV. &c. &c. ; allied with , friendly to" and many other phrases that imply joining together. So, "Gone across to the other side, together with" or even "Met upon the far shore" would be an absolutely literal and very Mahayana translation of 'Pārasamgate'. This may be understood as referring to liberating all beings, or to the bringing of one's entire world over onto the previously realised higher plane of energy, and as identical in meaning to the Zen saying "First there is a mountain [our initial condition of perception], then there is no mountain [pāragate], then there is [pārasamgate]". "Bodhi svāhā" - "Enlightenment, awaken!".
A Brief Comment on the title of "The Heart Sutra" appears to refer to the use of perfect wisdom (prajnaparamita) to cleanse error from the heart (hridaya). There are numerous variations of the sutra in Sanskrit and many other classical, Asian languages. Edward Conze did extensive work in this field, although his methods are now challenged by contemporary scientific philologists. The search for an ur-text is probably always going to be inconclusive, although some evidence points to the existence of a single, original version. This is of no consequence for people whose interest in the Sanskrit text is based on a desire to inspect the Sanskrit vocabulary of the concepts in "The Heart Sutra" or to draw spiritual nourishment from the elegantly poetic repetitions of the Sanskrit text that follows. A spiritual friend provided me with the materials I have used to prepare this version of the text in Buddhist Sanskrit. This text is modified from: Hurvitz, Leon. "Hsuan-tsang (602-664) and the _Heart Scripture_" in _Prajnaparamita and Related Systems: Studies in Honor of Edward Conze_ (University of California at Berkeley Press). 103-113. Hurvitz describes this text as "brahmanical" and reports that Hsuan-tsang transcribed it in Chinese characters from a wall of a cave at Ta hsing-shan-ssu in Lo-yang, China, apparently on the Silk Road, during the 7th century A.D. The context in which the Chinese scholar presented the Hridaya Sutra makes it clear that he considered it a magical text. Although this text is not precisely identical with existing English translations of "The Heart Sutra," it is obviously consistent with the Hridaya textual tradition. The Sanskrit scans metrically and by sense into mostly four line verses, a classical verse form that suggests a strong literary value in the text. Repetitions and thematic emphasis on the pervasiveness of emptiness (sunyata) characterize the text. I found that in order to preserve the sense of the verses it was necessary to shorten one verse to three lines, to lengthen another verse to five lines. I modified the Hurvitz text by eliminating all Sanskrit diacritical marks, regularizing the spacing of the Sanskrit words and their spelling, and adjusting the lines of the text according to sense and (in some cases) meter. I used Hurvitz's interlinear vocabulary as a base and added to it. The difficulties in this text are partly due to the obscurities of Buddhist Sanskrit, partly to the ackwardness of the transcription into Roman letters from Chinese phonological equivalents by Hurvitz, and mostly to my radically imperfect knowledge of Sanskrit. I accept full responsibility for the errors experts in the Sanskrit language will find here. May the merit of this effort benefit all sentient beings. [CORRECTION: Hsuan-tsung found the text on the stone wall of the Great Monastery of the Furtherance of Good, not on a cave wall. -MM]
-text selected by Steve D.
February 2012. Watercolor of Thomas Jefferson's house at Monticello, Virginia. Clearly inspired by the architecture of Andrea Palladio, for several years Thomas Jefferson worked on the design of this beautiful and unique landmark set in the Virginia landscape. Watercolor by Giovanni Giaconi©. Dimension of the original watercolor on paper 100x70cm (39x28 in.)
Traditional whitewashed cottages line the cobbled main street in the village of Boscastle, North Cornwall
The pulsating heart of Midtown Manhattan, Times Square brings together bright lights and thronging crowds. New York City.
View over the skyscrapers of Midtown from the observation deck of the Empire State Buillding, New York City
My Mother & Me captured in an image taken by my Dad at Marineland, Florida, in the winter of 1952. We were on a vacation trip and we visited our relatives in Saint Petersburg, Florida and then we went on to various cities, attractions and famous locations in Florida and finally wound up at Marine Land prior to heading back to Connecticut. Little did we know at that time that we would be moving permanently to Gulfport, Florida in 1956. We had been living part time on and off in Florida since 1947, and usually traveled by train from Connecticut to reach the Sunshine State. There is one thing that I can say about this photo, and that is I sure had a good head of hair at that time, as compared to now! LOL
View from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, looking North across Central Park towards Upper Manhattan, New York City
Redwood Creek overlook with giant redwoods sticking out above low clouds at sunrise Redwood National Park Northern California USA
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Paved curvy road stretching into the horizon in Eastern Washington winding its way through green fields Washington State USA
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The iconic Empire State Building basks in the afternoon sun in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Bellevue Botanical Garden with stacked rocks in rock garden Bellevue Washington State USA
Female Humming Bird Bellevue Botanical Garden Bellevue Washington
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Cascade Lakes Highway windy road Central Oregon State USA
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The bronze statue of America's first president George Washington, stands at Federal Hall National Monument at Wall Street and overlooks the entry way to the NY stock exchange building with its Greek revival facade and corinthian columns. Today the area is constantly under guard after the infamous nearby events of Sept. 11, 2001. NY, NY, USA
Fremont statues "Waiting for the Interurban" Artist Richard Beyer with statues dressed up like batman Fremont neighborhood Seattle Washington State USA
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This is evidence of its weirdness. This is a FAKE coffee shop. Used as a shooting location for various movies.
AND
The other day I was driving home from work and I was stopped at a red light in Hollywood. I wasn't really paying attention to the guy who was jaywalking in front of me. I just kinda glanced up and saw spiderman walking across the street. I internally shrugged and thought "Spiderman." After a second I realized how totally absurd that was. Spiderman was jaywalking in front of me. AND I DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF IT. I've lived here too long.
View from the observation deck of the Empire State Building looking across Lower Manhattan, New York City
Traditional whitewashed cottages line the cobbled main street in the village of Boscastle, North Cornwall
Sea World Adventure Park Shamu underwater viewing with kids looking at killer whale San Diego California USA
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Mokuleia Beach has a special place in my heart. The wide stretch of sand, the endless sound of waves, and the rugged cliffs feel both grounding and timeless. For LOST fans, this was the crash site of Oceanic Flight 815 — the very place where the story began. Standing here, it’s hard not to feel a mix of awe and nostalgia. I love this spot not just for its natural beauty, but for the way it stirs memories and emotions, blending the magic of Hawaii with the stories that stay with us long after the screen goes dark.
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